LOCATION: UMaine Softball Complex - Orono, Maine
SHORT STORY: Consistent pitching and hot bats were the name of the game in the conference opening doubleheader victory at Maine, Saturday.
RECORDS: UAlbany 13-6, 2-0 | Maine 1-23, 0-5 America East
GAME ONE
SCORE: UAlbany 6, Maine 4
KEY STATS
HOW IT HAPPENED
- UAlbany started hot with singles from Caityn Mitros and Morgan Petty.
- Maine held off the first-inning advance and left three Great Danes on base.
- After a Black Bear single, the UAlbany defense turned a double play to end the first in just three batters.
- After loading the bases in the top of the second, Maddi Petrella hit a single to right field and drove in two RBI before the third runner scored from a fielding error.
- Maine tied the score before the inning was over.
- The Black Bears tallied a go-ahead run in the bottom of the fourth.
- Senior Jordan Nastos made her way around the bases and scored on a closely-called wild pitch to even the score.
- Wendi Hammond struck out two batters as the Great Dane defense went 1-2-3.
- Mary Kate Murray drove in what proved to be the game-winning run in the top of the seventh.
- Victoria Vilarchao and junior Caitlyn Frederick made it a two-run lead. Taking advantage of Vilarchao's single through the left side, Frederick rounded third base before sliding into home for the run.
- Retiring each of the first three batters, the Great Danes secured the 6-4 game-one win.
GAME TWO
SCORE: UAlbany 6, Maine 0
KEY STATS
- Three Great Danes led with two RBI each - Caitlyn Mitros, Morgan Petty, and Mary Kate Murray.
- Mitros hit the lone Great Dane multi-base hit of the day with a double. It was one of just two throughout the doubleheader.
- Sophomore Deanna Grahek scored a team-high three runs.
- Mitros and Petty led from the batter's box (2-3) while Murray and Jordan Nastos followed (2-4).
- Allowing just one hit, redshirt-junior Kate Powers pitched the seven-inning complete game. Totaling four strikeouts, she earned a 0.00 ERA, in a complete game, for the second time this season.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Starting the scoring early, Morgan Petty and Caitlyn Mitros scored off a single to right center from Mary Kate Murray in the top of the first.
- As the Great Dane defense teamed together for their second double play of the day, pitcher Kate Powers faced just three batters to end the first inning with a 2-0 lead.
- Mitros extended the UAlbany lead with an RBI single in the second inning.
- Deanna Grahek opened the fourth with a single before stealing second to put herself in scoring position.
- Mitros hit her double through the left side to send Grahek home.
- Hitting a sacrifice fly, Petty earned an RBI as Mitros hit home plate.
- Up 5-0 after four innings, the fifth inning was the first in which the Great Dane defense faced more than three batters.
- Petty added an RBI single in the top of the sixth. Grahek scored what proved to be the final run of the game.
- The Black Bears left two runners on base in both the sixth and seventh innings but were unable to take advantage of the baserunners as UAlbany won, 6-0.
NEXT: The Great Danes will close out their first AE series on Sunday (Mar. 31).
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