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.