Jenn Menendez reports on college sports.
The Maine baseball team will play it's home opener Saturday at 1 p.m. against Sacred Heart in the newly resurfaced Mahaney Diamond.
That's quite an early start for a team that last year got stuck playing some "home games" in Connecticut to find a dry playing surface.
With just a year left to his college playing career Mark Socoby left the University of Maine basketball team for personal reasons.
There was significant chatter for a few days before he confirmed his plan to move on yesterday.
Came upon an interesting story in the Bowdoin College student newspaper the other day.
After going 0-28 to start the season last year the University of Maine softball team is off to a 15-11 start and was on a 10-game winning streak until this afternoon.
Maine beat Sacred Heart this morning 1-0 then lost 3-2 to Southern Illinois-Edwardsville in Game 2 of a doubleheader.
The ink's not dry on this yet, but Maine has scored running back/linebacker Shawn Bodtmann out of West Scranton, Pa. for next season.
He's 6-foot-5, 205 pounds and can run the 40 in 4.58 seconds.
It's that time again.
The America East Championships get underway on Friday when No. 8 Maine faces No. 9 Hartford at 7 p.m. at the University of Albany.
The winner of the first round contest will face top-seeded Binghamton in the quarterfinals Saturday at 7 p.m.
USM women: The 22-6 Huskies will make their 15th consecutive appearance with a 4 p.m. game Friday against Emmanuel College (21-7) at the campus of Amherst College in Amherst, Mass.
