Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

BIDDEFORD, Maine -- The University of New England softball team improved to 12-3-1 on the season with a 9-4, 11-2 sweep of the University of Southern Maine in a non-conference doubleheader Thursday afternoon at Claude Dubois Field.

UNE -- considered the visiting team after the games were moved to Biddeford with Southern Maine's field unplayable -- scored three times in the first inning and three more in the third to establish a 6-0 lead in game one.  

The Huskies responded by plating four runs in their half of the third to make the score 6-4 before the Nor'easters pushed across three runs in the seventh to put the game away.

First-year Liz Kelly (Hollis, N.H.) had two hits and two runs scored for UNE.  Junior Caroline Engwer (Wrentham, Mass.) contributed a pair of hits and drove in a run.  

Senior Jess Silvio (Beverly, Mass.) worked four scoreless innings in relief to up her record to 2-1.  She scattered four hits and struck out three.

First-years Cerise Humphrey (Fryeburg, Maine) and Heidi Swett (Turner, Maine) had two hits apiece for the Huskies, who were hampered by six errors.

Leading 3-0 after two innings of the nightcap, UNE exploded for seven runs in the third.  The big blow in the frame was a grand slam by junior Jenn Waldecker (Hooksett, N.H.), her third round-tripper of the season.

USM avoided a shutout by scoring single runs in the fourth and fifth.  First-year Lauren DeCecco (South Berwick, Maine) had a sacrifice fly in the fourth, and classmate Laura Leger (Quincy, Mass.) produced an RBI groundout in the fifth.  

The game was halted after five innings due to the eight-run rule.

UNE first-year Marie Mantelli (Thompson, Conn.) had two hits and three runs batted in, including a two-run homer in the first.  Waldecker and seniors Ashley DePasquale (Uxbridge, Mass.) and Rachel Boutin (Winslow, Maine) had two hits apiece.

Sophomore Amber Zablowsky (Rochester, Mass.) allowed zero runs over the first three innings to record the win.

The Nor'easters' next game is a The Commonwealth Coast Conference doubleheader at Nichols College on Saturday.  USM (1-15) hosts Western Connecticut State University in a Little East Conference twinbill that same day.