Standish, ME - The Saint Joseph's College softball squad lost a pair of games, 8-0 and 13-0 yesterday afternoon. The Monks fall to 5-11 on the season while USM improves to 6-10 overall.
St. Joe's looked strong until the fourth inning. The Huskies took advantage of a walk and an error to set up FR Magan Blais (Sabattus, ME) for a 3 RBI blast over center field. The Huskies extended the lead with a run in the 5th and two in the 6th and 7th.
SO Gabrielle Burrola (Gallup, NM) struck out four for the Monks in the loss and added a double. FY Liddy van der Linden (Worcester, MA), JR Megan Farrell (Abington, MA) and FY Jillian Kimball (Albany Twp., ME) all had singles for St. Joe's.
The Huskies got on the board early in game two, plating a run in the first and two runs in the second. USM exploded for 10 runs on 8 hits in the fifth to put the game out of reach. The St. Joe's offense continued to struggle in game 2 as SR Tessa Grindle (Brooksville, ME) had the only hit. Senior Colleen Delahanty (Warren, ME) struck out 3 and took the loss for the Monks.
