The University of Maine softball team did the seemingly impossible in their first America East tournament game on Wednesday, coming back to beat Bryant 9-7 in Orono.
The No. 6 Black Bears entered Wednesday’s game with a 4-39 overall record and just one conference victory — which happened to be against No. 3 Bryant (32-15) on April 7.
Down 3-0 in the sixth inning with two outs, two strikes and two runners on, fifth-year pitcher Cat Fallon altered the course of UMaine’s season with one swing of her bat, slugging a homer to dead center and blowing the lid off the UMaine softball complex.
Fallon and company continued their rally in the seventh with the help of some wet weather, parlaying a double, four singles and a Bryant error to make it 7-3 Black Bears. The rain proved to be a continued X-factor in the bottom half of the seventh, as the Bulldogs scored four of their own and sent it into extras.
The Black Bears finally broke away in the eighth, as junior Anna Margetis put the ball in play with the bases loaded, scoring two and helping punch UMaine’s ticket to day two of the America East tournament.
