DAVENPORT, Fla. –  Senior Meaghan Dufresne (Mattapoisett, Mass.) finished the day 4-for-6 at the plate with a double and two RBI, while juniors Kendall Migliorini (Salem, NH) and Alana Delisle (Amesbury, Mass) both went 3-for-6 as the University of Southern Maine Huskies dropped its first two games of the 2025 season.  Playing in their first contest of the season, the Huskies rapped out 10 hits but fell to Middlebury College 12-7.  In their second game of the day, the Huskies combined for nine hits, but dropped a 4-1 game to Nazareth.
 
 
Records:
GM 1 – Middlebury 12, Southern Maine 7
Middlebury (5-0)                        202 152 0   12-9-2
Southern Maine (0-1)                400 030 0    7-10-3
 
GM 2 – Nazareth 4, Southern Maine 1
Southern Maine (0-2)                100 000 0    1-9-1
Nazareth (1-1)                          012 001 x    4-3-0
 
Pitching Records:
GM 1 – Southern Maine vs. Middlebury   
WP: Emily Ye (1-0) 4.0 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K
LP: Lexus McIntosh (0-1), 4.0 PI, 5 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1HR
 
GM 2 – Southern Maine vs. Nazareth
WP:  Madison Hicks (1-0), 7.0 IP, 9 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 3 Ks
LP:  Mia Coots (0-1), 6.0 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 6 BB, 4 Ks, 1 HR
 
 
How It Happened: Game One – Southern Maine vs. Middlebury

• Middlebury scored five runs in the top of the fifth en route to a 12-7 win over the Huskies. The Panthers collected nine hits off Southern Maine pitchers, including a pair of home runs from Olivia Scholes and Jennifer Westphal.
• The Panthers led early scoring a pair of unearned runs in the top of the first taking advantage of a pair of infield errors from Southern Maine. However, the Huskies bounced back with four runs to lead 4-2.  Junior Mackenzie Renner (Alton, NH/Prospect Mountain) had an RBI single, while senior Meaghan Dufresne (Matapoisett, Mass./Old Rochester Regional) had an RBI double.
• Scholes tied the game up at 4-4. In the top of the third with a two-run homerun to center, scoring Kristyn Carroll who led off the inning with a double. The Panthers tacked on another run in the top of the fourth. Wong reached safely with a one-out single to left, and came around to score after a single up the middle from Carroll, and a tag up play on an infield fly.
• The Panthers broke the game open with five runs in the top of the fifth. Taking advantage of a Husky error and five walks in the inning.  Nicole Schroeder had an RBI single as one of two Panther hits.
• The Huskies countered with three runs in the bottom of the fifth to make it a three-run game, 10-7.  Freshman Taylor Takatsu (West Gardiner, Maine/Gardiner Area) led of the inning with her first career double, and came around to score on a passed ball with two outs.  Juniors Olivia Levasseur (Amesbury, Mass.) and Alana Deslisle (Amesbury, Mass.) each had RBI singles in the inning.
• With its lead cut to three, Middlebury put further distance between themselves and the Huskies in the top of the sixth.  After a lead off single, USM recorded the first out of the inning before Westphal made it 12-7 with a two-run shot over left field.
• USM went down in order in the bottom of the sixth, and had runners on first and second with no outs in the bottom of the seventh, but Middlebury's Abby Jankowski got the final three outs to end the game.
• Middlebury's Emily Ye earned the win in relief entering in the second and pitching four innings allowing three runs with five strikeouts.  Husky starter Lexus McIntosh absorbed the loss allowing three earned runs (5 total) on five hits, and two walks.

 
 
Game Two -  Southern Maine vs. Nazareth

• Dufresne had Southern Maine up early in the top of the first with an RBI single, but Nazareth came back to tie the game up in the bottom of the second.  Knapp led off with a walk, stole second and then moved into third on a wild pitch before cross home plate on a well-played sacrifice bunt RBI from Sarah Ferruzza.
• Nazareth made it 3-1 in the bottom of the third scoring twice on an RBI sacrifice fly from Morgan Russo and a solo home run from Kaijah Alexander.
• The Huskies had runners in scoring position in the top of the fourth, fifth and sixth inning.  Junior Kristina Yebba (Danvers, Mass.) led off the fifth with a single and move to third on a pair of wild pitches with one out, but a hard-hit line drive from Takatsu was snagged for an inning ending double-play.
• Still 3-1 headed to the bottom of the sixth, Nazareth added an insurance run. Ferruzza had a two-out double to right, and her pinch runner came around to score after advancing to third on a wild pitch, and then crossing home plate on a stolen base play.
• In the top of the seventh, Levasseur singled with one out, and a walk from Delisle gave the Huskies two runners on with one out.  After a fly out to center, the Huskies comeback was thwarted following a fielder's choice ground out.
• Freshman Mia Coots (Hartland, Maine/Nokomis) pitched well in her first collegiate start going six innings.  She allowed three hits and six walks for four earned runs. She had four strikeouts.  Nazareth's Madison Hicks earned the win in seven innings, allowing one earned run on nine hits and three walks with three strikeouts.

 
 
Up Next:
Southern Maine remains in Clermont, Florida for The Spring Games and faces Amherst (9:00 am) and Augsburg (11:15 am)  on Sunday.
 
 
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