ORONO, Maine – The University of Maine softball team will travel to Rhode Island this weekend for a three-game America East series against Bryant at Conaty Park.

The Black Bears and Bulldogs are set to play a double header beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 25 followed by a single 12 p.m. game on Sunday, April 26. Saturday's doubleheader will stream on America East TV while Sunday's series finale will be on ESPN+.
 
Game 41 | Maine at Bryant
Saturday, April 25 | 1:00 p.m.
Smithfield, R.I. | AmericaEast.TV
 
Game 42 | Maine at Bryant
Saturday, April 25 | 3:00 p.m.
Smithfield, R.I. | AmericaEast.TV
 
Game 43 | Maine at Bryant
Sunday, April 26 | 12:00 p.m.
Smithfield, R.I. | ESPN+
 
 
HOW TO WATCH/FOLLOW

• Saturday's doubleheader will be streamed on AmericaEast.TV while Sunday's contest will be on ESPN+.
• Live stats for all three contests will be available via BryantBulldogs.com

SERIES HISTORY vs BRYANT

• Maine is 8-15 against Bryant with a mark of 1-4 in the last five meetings.
• Maine played Bryant seven times last season, going 1-6 in the regular season before the Bulldogs eliminated the Black Bears on the second day of the America East Tournament.
• 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 a single game at Boston College on Tuesday night, is currently 16-20 overall on the year with a 13-4 record in America East games.
• The Bulldogs sit in first place in the conference standings, with the three-game series against Maine marking its last conference series of the regular season.
• Bryce Clendenin (.350/.513/.547) and Alissa West (.353/.380/.471) are leading the charge offensively for the Bulldogs … Arianna Williams is hitting .290/.426/.355 with a team-leading 30 runs scored while going 11-15 in stolen base attempts.
• Maddy Wachter and Brooke Tracy have both thrown over 70 innings in the circle … Wachter is 9-4 with a 2.88 earned run average and 39 strikeouts in 90.0 innings of work while Tracy is 2-9 with a 4.68 earned run average.
• Bryant was picked to finish second in the America East Preseason Poll, earning one first-place vote.

QUICK HITS

• The Black Bears went 3-1 last week, picking up a non-conference win over Husson before earning a 2-1 series win over Binghamton over the weekend … Maine's walk-off win over the Bearcats on Saturday snapped a nine-game losing streak against Binghamton and then Sunday's victory gave the Black Bears the first weekend series victory in the series since 2021.
• Kaelyn Larkin leads Maine with a .348 batting average, good for 13th overall in the conference, while her 1.068 on-base plus slugging is the seventh-best mark in America East …
• Francesca Guerrera is 12th in the America East with a team-leading 32 hits … Guerrera is the first Maine player to record 30+ hits in each of their first two seasons since 2016 and 2017 … Guerrera's 69 hits in her first two years mark the highest total by a player in their first two years since Alyssa Derrick (86; 46-40) and Meghan Royle (79; 43-36) in 2016 & 2017.
• Keira Inman leads the conference with three triples and is tied ninth with 21 runs scored … Inman leads Maine with 20 RBI, good for 11th among America East players.
• In the circle, Alysen Rieth leads Maine and is second in the conference with 91.2 innings pitched … she is fourth with 69 strikeouts and tied fourth with six wins.

UP NEXT

• The Black Bears will host UAlbany in the final regular season series on Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2.
• Maine will host the 2026 America East Softball Championship May 6-9 at the Pierre & Catherine Labat Softball Complex.