CLERMONT, Fla. –  Freshman Taylor Takastu (West Gardiner, Maine) was 2-for-6 with two doubles and an RBI to highlight the University of Southern Maine Huskies softball team in a pair of closely contested losses Sunday afternoon in Florida at The Spring Games.  Southern Maine dropped its opener to Amherst 6-3, and then fell 4-0 to Augsburg.
 
Records:
GM 1 – Amherst 6, Southern Maine 3
Amherst (1-0                             005 100 0    6-6-3
Southern Maine (0-3)                001 110 0    3-6-1
 
GM 2 – Augsburg, Southern Maine
Southern Maine (0-4)                000 000 0   0-5-0                             
Augsburg (9-1)                          010 030 x   4-5-1
 
Pitching Records:
GM 1 – Southern Maine vs. Amherst
WP: Dani Torres Werra (1-0), 7.0 IP, 6H, 3R, 2ER, 1BB, 3K
LP: Lexus McIntosh (0-2), 3.0 IP, 4H, 5R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 3K
 
GM 2 – Southern Maine vs Augsburg
WP:  A, Zoe Adkins (3-1), 7.0 IP, 5H, 0 R, 0ER, 2BB, 3K
LP:  SM, Mia Coots (0-2), 4.2 IP, 5H, 4R, 4ER, 2BB, 5K
 
How It Happened: Game One – Southern Maine vs. Amherst

• Amherst scored five runs in the top of the third and held on for the 6-3 win. Lauren Roe had three RBI, clearing the bases with an inside-the-park home run down the left field line doing the bulk of the damage in the third.
• Trailing 5-0 in the bottom of three, Southern Maine snagged a run back on an RBI double to right from freshman Taylor Takatsu (West Gardiner, Maine/Gardiner Area).  However, Amherst returned to a five-run lead in the top of the fourth as Lulu Leppard tripled to the gap in left for an RBI.
• USM added another run to its tally in the top of the fourth as junior Lexus McIntosh (Lancaster, NH/White Mountains Regional) singled through the left side to plate junior Mackenzie Renner (Alton, NH/Prospect Mountain). Renner reached safely with a single earlier in the inning.
• The Huskies made it 6-3 as Takatsu doubled again and then came around to score on a wild pitch.
• After a scoreless sixth from both sides, and a scoreless top of the seventh for the Mammoths, Southern Maine went down in order to end the game.

 
 
Game Two -  Southern Maine vs. Augsburg

• Locked in a pitcher's dual as freshman Mia Coots (Newport, Maine/Nokomis) put together a solid showing in her second intercollegiate contest, the Huskies trailed Augsburg 1-0 after four and a half innings. Coots pitched 4.2 innings allowing four earned runs on five hits and a pair of walks, while striking out five. Coots
• Augusburg broke through for three runs in the bottom of the fifth to slip away from the Huskies as Olivia Hennager and Morgann Paaske each had RBI doubles for a 4-0 lead.
• The Huskies had chances to score in the contest, stranding a runner on third in the top o fth second, and leaving a pair of runners on in the top of the fifth, but were unable to plate a run against Augsburg starter Zoe Adkins who earned the win scattering five hits and two walks over seven innings while striking out three.
• Husky freshman Gwen Christie (Barnstead, NH/Prospect Mountain)  and sophomore Finley Folkett (Morden, Manitoba/Morden Collegiate Institute) each had two hits for Southern Maine.

 
 
Up Next:
The Huskies are off on Monday.  Southern Maine remains in Clermont, Florida for The Spring Games and faces SUNY New Paltz (9:00 am) and Edgewood College (2:00 pm) on Tuesday, March 18.  The Huskies remain in action on Wednesday facing Simpson (9:00 am) and Clarkson University (11:15 am) on Wednesday, and close out their spring trip on Thursday against St. Lawrence University (9:00 am) and Keuka College (11:15 am). 
 
 
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