Black Bears Earn Split at Holy Cross

Thursday, April 25

Worcester, Mass.

3:00 PM

University of Maine

3-33

Holy Cross

11-31

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Maine	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	3	6	0
Holy Cross	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	4	9	3

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Maine	0	0	8	0	3	0	0	11	9	2
Holy Cross	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	10	12	2

Photo by: Seth Poplaski

4/25/2024 8:45:00 PM | Softball

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WORCESTER, Mass. – The University of Maine softball team earned a split at Holy Cross on Thursday afternoon at Freshman Field.

After Holy Cross walked off game one, 4-3, the Black Bears clawed back from an 8-0 deficit in game two for an 11-10 victory.

Game 36
Score: Holy Cross 4, Maine 3
Stadium: Freshman Field
How it Happened

Maine took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second when Rylee Kent singled home Caitlyn Fallon.
Holy Cross responded with two runs in the bottom of the second.
The Black Bears went back on top in the third when Katie Jo Moery knocked a two-run single to left center.
The 3-2 score would hold until the bottom of the seventh when Holy Cross got the first two runners on and then scored both on a triple down the right field line.

Game Notes

Caitlyn Fallon went 2-for-3 for her fifth multi-hit game of the season.
Kennedy Burns, Krista Francia, Katie Jo Moery and Rylee Kent all notched a hit for the Black Bears.
Moery had two RBI for her fifth multi-RBI game of the year.
Francia extended her reached base streak to five games while Fallon and Kennedy Priest extended their streaks to four games.
Isabelle True started, going 3.0 innings while giving up two runs on four hits with four walks … Alysen Rieth went 3.0 innings in relief, allowing two runs on five hits with one walk.

Game 37
Score: Maine 11, Holy Cross 10
Stadium: Freshman Field
How it Happened

Holy Cross raced out to a 7-0 lead in the bottom of the first and then made it 8-0 in the second.
The Black Bears then erupted for eight runs in the top of the third … Maine loaded the bases on two walks and an Anna Margetis single and then made it 8-1 when Krista Francia earned a walk … Katie Jo Moery reached on an error and pushed two runs across before Gabby Papushka drove in a pair with a single to make it 8-5 … Caitlyn Fallon reached on a double and Nora Campo drove a three-run, game-tying home run to left center.
Holy Cross responded with two runs in the bottom of the third to retake a 10-8 lead.
Papushka led off the fifth with a single and then back-to-back walks set the plate for Kyli Hernandez to single home a run … Madison Hand then had a pinch-hit sacrifice fly to tie things up, 10-10 … Margetis had an RBI single to center to put Maine up, 11-10.

Game Notes

Nora Campo was 1-for-2 with a three-run home run … Gabby Papushka was 2-for-4 with two RBI … Anna Margetis was 2-for-4 with the game-winning RBI … Caitlyn Fallon was 2-for-3 with one RBI … … Kyli Hernandez and Katie Jo Moery also picked up hits.
Fallon picked up her sixth multi-hit game of the season while Papushka and Margetis both registered their fourth multi-hit games.
Papushka, Fallon and Campo scored two runs each.
Krista Francia reached base safely for the sixth consecutive game while Fallon did it for the fourth straight.
Maine's eight-run third was the first time scoring at least eight runs in an inning since putting up nine in the seventh inning of a 14-4 win over Georgia Southern on Feb. 19, 2022.
Kaly Thomas started, going 1.0 innings while giving up seven runs – four earned – on five hits, three walks and one strikeout … Fallon threw 6.0 innings of relief in picking up the win, allowing three runs on seven hits with three walks and two strikeouts

Up Next

Maine will play a three-game America East series at UMass Lowell April 27-28, with a 1 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday, April 27 followed by a single game at 12 p.m. on Sunday, April 28.