MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Five UMaine-Farmington batters belted multiple hits as the Beavers routed the Keene State softball team 12-4 in their first game Friday in South Carolina.
UMF (6-2) second baseman Olivia Paradis led the onslaught, going 4 for 4 with a pair of doubles, two RBIs, a run and a stolen base.
Maddie Pike also had two doubles, drove in two runs and scored three. Grace Pratt hit safely twice and batted in two runs, while Abby Wrinn and Jojo Daigneault each contributed a pair of hits and a pair of runs.
Beavers pitcher Mack Bergen earned the win to improve to 2-0 on the season.
Molly Murray, who is from Gorham, led the Owls with three hits. Westbrook’s Grace Wallace had one hit.
UMaine-Farmington faltered in its second game of the day, losing to College of Mount Saint Vincent 9-4.
Jessica Dow led the Beavers in the second game with two hits, while Wrinn, Daigneault and Stephanie Morse each had an RBI.
Paige Goerman tripled, singled and drove in three runs for Mount Saint Vincent.
CMCC DROPS TWO: Penn State Kensington took a pair of games from Central Maine Community College, winning 3-2 and 7-2 in Pennsylvania.
Olivia Waldrop went the distance to earn the win in the first game. She also drove in a run. Kali Barnett drove in the Nittany Lions’ other two runs.
Olivia Gallan had a pair of hits for the Mustangs.
Olivia Gallan added a team-high three hits in the second game, and Miah Gallan hit a solo home run. But those were CMCC’s only hits.
Addyson Gregg smacked a three-run homer in Kensington’s four-run third inning. Piper Zufall had three hits and drove in two runs.
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CMCC SWEPT: For the second day in a row, the Mustangs lost a walk-off heartbreaker, this time falling to Penn State York 7-6 in the second game of a doubleheader in Pennsylvania.
Central Maine Community College led 6-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, but the Nittany Lions scored five runs in the bottom half of the frame to tie the game, then Nathaniel Uzelac’s two-out single brought home Gavin Constein for the winning run.
Uzelac tallied three hits, including a double. Nathan Fowler hit a grand slam in the fifth inning for York.
Andrew Trombley led CMCC with three hits. He also scored a pair of runs. Lee Robertson had two hits and drove in two runs. Mt. Blue graduate Hayden Durrell also had two RBIs.
In the opening game, York pitchers Cole Sinnott and Kolby Miller limited the Mustangs to two hits in three innings.
Sinnott struck out six batters in five innings, and Miller fanned four in two innings.
Uzelac and Fowler had two hits apiece for the Nittany Lions.
Lisbon grad Levi Tibbetts hit a double for one of Central Maine’s hits, and Derek Roman had the other.
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