GORHAM, Maine – Senior Alexis Brown (Malden, Mass) cranked a two-run home run in game one and then fired a seven-inning 5-1 win in the circle in game two to lead the University of Southern Maine Huskies to a Little East Conference doubleheader sweep over the UMass Dartmouth Corsairs.  The Huskies earned a win 3-2 in the opener.
            With the win, Southern Maine is now 6-0 early in the 2021 season and 2-0 in the Little East.  UMass Dartmouth is 0-4 and 0-2. Southern Maine is back in action on Tuesday at UMass Dartmouth for a non-conference doubleheader.
           
GAME ONE: Southern Maine 3, UMass Dartmouth 2

• Down 1-0 to the Corsairs thanks to an RBI double from junior Lindsay Chubbuck (Berkley, Mass./Somerset Berkely), Brown smacked her first home run of the season over the left field fence to put the Huskies up 2-1
• The Corsairs came back to tie the game up in the top of the sixth.  Sophomore Victoria Rossetti (Valley Stream, N.Y.) hit a sacrifice fly to right, plating freshman Hailey Lyons (Hayden, Idaho).  Lyons led off the inning with a single and moved into scoring position at third on singles from senior Jill Richards (Kingston, Mass.) and freshman Dyonna Rodas (Branford, Conn.).
• With the score tied at two, senior Ashley Tinsman (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) drove in the deciding run with two-out single to left. Tinsman drove in Husky freshman Belle Snyder (Epping, N.H.) who led off the inning with a walk, and came around into scoring position with solid base running on a sacrifice bunt and a fly out.
• In the circle, graduate student Kirsten Pelletier (West Gardiner, Maine/Messalonskee) picked up her third win of the season.  Pelletier went seven full, allowing nine hits and a walk for two earned runs. She struck out five.
• UMD's Richards took the loss, allowing three earned runs on nine hits and four walks. She had four strikeouts.

 
GAME TWO: Southern Maine 5, UMass Dartmouth 1

• Brown scattered four hits and five walks over seven innings to improve to 3-0 on the season.  Brown struck out five.  Frehsman Kaitlyn Shirshac (Enfield, Conn./Enfield) absorbed the loss for UMD allowing two earned runs on one hit and three walks in 1.1 innings of action.  Classmate Abby Bedient (Windham, N.H.) pitched the final 4.2 innings.  She allowed three earned runs on eight hits and a walk.  Shirshac had three strikeouts and Bedient had three.
• Rossetti had the Corsairs up 1-0 in the top of the second with an RBI single, scoring Chubbock – who led off the inning with a walk and moved to third on a double from Richards.  However, USM came back with two runs in the bottom of the inning on back-to-back RBI singles from juniors Brynn Hink (Porter, Maine/Sacopee Valley) and Kaitlyn Nelson (Guildhall, Vermont/White Mountains Regional). 
• USM took a 3-1 lead in the home half of the fourth as senior Samantha Hauck (Painted Post, N.Y./Corning Painted Post) hit a solo shot home run over the center field fence for her first home run in a Husky uniform.
• The Huskies added insurance runs in the bottom of the fifth and sixth for the 5-1 final. Tinsman knocked out her third home run of the season with a solo shot to left field, and Hink came around to score on a wild pitch in the sixth after leading off the inning with a walk.