ORONO, Maine – The University of Maine softball team will host Byrant this weekend for a three-game America East series on Friday and Saturday at the Pierre & Catherine Labat Softball Complex.
 
All three games are set to be streamed on ESPN+. The teams are scheduled to play a doubleheader beginning at 2 p.m. on Friday and a single game starting at 12 p.m. on Saturday.
 
Nora Campo, Kyrah Haba-Dailey and Gabby Papushka will be honored in a pregame ceremony on Saturday.
 
Game 44 | Maine vs Bryant
Friday, May 2 | 2:00 p.m.
Orono, Maine | ESPN+
 
Game 45 | Maine vs Bryant
Friday, May 2 | 4:00 p.m.
Orono, Maine | ESPN+
 
Game 46 | Maine vs Bryant
Saturday, May 3 | 12:00 p.m.
Orono, Maine | ESPN+
 
 
HOW TO WATCH/FOLLOW

• All three games of the America East series are set to stream on ESPN+.
• Live stats will be available via GoBlackBears.com

(RECENT) SERIES HISTORY

• Since 2010, Maine is 7-12 against Bryant with a mark of 3-7 in the last 10 meetings.
• Maine traveled to Bryant for three games back in March, falling in all three contests.
• The teams met five times during the 2024 regular season, with Maine going 2-3 overall … the Black Bears were 1-2 against the Bulldogs in the regular season and 1-1 in the America East Tournament.

ABOUT BRYANT

• Bryant, who plays at Boston University on Wednesday afternoon, sits at 16-27 overall with a mark of 8-9 in America East games.
• This past weekend, the Bulldogs went 2-0 against UAlbany with 7-3 and 1-0 wins.
• Meaghan Houk leads Bryant across the slash line categories with a .378 batting average, .475 on-base percentage and .612 slugging percentage.
• Sam Rowher is hitting .342 with a team-leading 40 hits, seven home runs and 34 runs batted in.
• In the circle, five pitchers have thrown over 32 innings with Maddy Wachter going 6-6 with a 3.67 earned run average over 76.1 innings … Wachter has also thrown five complete games.

QUICK HITS

• Maine went 2-1 against UMass Lowell last weekend, falling in Sunday's single game before rebounding for the doubleheader win on Monday … Alysen Rieth and Madison Simmerman both threw complete game victories in the doubleheader sweep.
• Rieth has thrown an America East-leading 131.2 innings and is fourth in the league 11 complete games … Rieth is also third in the league in strikeouts with 112 and is the first Maine pitcher to reach the 100-strikeout mark in a season since 2016.
• Papushka is tied for the America East lead in triples with three while sitting third in doubles with 10 … her 29 RBI rank sixth overall and her .471 slugging-percentage is 13th and her 34 hits rank 16th.
• Morgan Pool (24) and Bailey Snowberger (21) sit first and tied second respectively, in the America East in walks earned.
• Pool has thrown out 22 base runners to tie for second overall in the country … nationally, Pool is the first freshman catcher to throw out more than 20 runners since the NCAA began officially tracking CSB for the 2021-22 season.

UP NEXT

• Maine will enter postseason play next week with the 2025 America East Tournament set for May 7-10 at Binghamton University.