Women’s Outdoor Track
Landry honored by LEC
Senior Hattie Landry (Acton) was named Track Athlete of the Week for her efforts during the week of April 14-20. During that stretch, Landry led the Huskies to a second place finish at the Bowdoin College Aloha Relays with two first place finishes in 100-meter hurdles and the long-jump. Landry set a school record in the 100-meter hurdles event with a time of 15.46 seconds.
Men’s Outdoor Track
Wheeler and Spaulding garner weekly honors
Senior Curtis Wheeler (Derby, VT) and junior James Spaulding (Lewiston) each received weekly accolades for their performances during the week ending on April 20. Wheeler was awarded Track Athlete of the Week honors for his record-setting effort in the 5,000-meters at the Maine State Collegiate Championships where he broke his previous school record with a time of 14 minutes, 54.65 seconds. Spaulding earned Field Athlete of the Week recognition for school decathlon records he set at the Holy Cross Decathlon event.
Men’s Lacrosse
Tough Keene game ends season
The Huskies finished their season on Saturday with a tough 15-2 loss to Keene State. Keene will enter the post-season as the number two seed in the conference. Sophomore Alex Pleau (Lewiston) and senior Shane Billings (North Berwick) scored fourth quarter goals for USM to prevent the shutout, and senior goalie James Suriyodorn (Deer Park, NY) made a heroic effort with 17 saves in the game. The Huskies finished 4-12 in the season.
Softball
Huskies win thriller to split with Bridgewater
Junior Sabrina Mills (Wesford, MA) singled home the winning run to give the University of Southern Maine softball team an exciting 7-6 win in the opening game of a double-header, which the Huskies split with non-conference opponent Bridgewater State. The Huskies dropped the second game of the twinbill 3-2 in a five-inning game that was called due to darkness. The win leaves the Huskies’ record at 16-17 overall for the season.
Men’s Tennis
Stevenson and Warren take LEC doubles title
Though the Huskies on the whole couldn’t pull out another conference championship – the team settled for second place in the LEC – Josh Warren (Hermon) and Derek Stevenson (Raymond) took their own title in the doubles tournament, competing in the number one slot. Warren typically takes both the doubles and singles win in conference matches, but lost his final singles round 6-0, 6-2 to UMass Boston’s Jovan Jordan-Whitter.