BANGOR- Two numbers. 61 and 8. That is the numbers associated with Husson softball, as they won their 61st straight game against league opponents on Saturday and won their 8th straight North Atlantic Conference Championship with a resounding 18-0 five inning win over Thomas College at O’Keefe Field. Ana Lang (Searsport) fired a no-hitter.
The Eagles left no doubt and put it away early with three runs in the first inning and six more in the second. They scored in each frame as they added another three and six spot in the third and fourth respectively, part of an 18-hit attack. Emily Dunbar (Skowhegan), Morgan Tainter, and Jetta Shook (Bucksport) combined for eight hits, 12 RBI, and seven runs scored. Dunbar had three hits, five RBI including a homer, and scores two runs. Tainter drove in four on three hits while scoring three runs, and Shook had two hits, three RBI, and scored once. Husson had nine extra base hits (seven doubles, one triple, one homer). Morgan Curtis (Gray-New Gloucester) contributed three hits and one RBI, while Lydia Rice (Winthrop) and Camryn King (Nokomis) chipped in two hits and one RBI each. Lang only allowed one base runner (hit by pitch) in the five inning no-hitter while striking out six in improving her record to 23-3, and after the game was named the NAC Tournament Most Outstanding Player. It was her second five inning no-hitter of the season, and her earned run average is one of the tops in the country in Division III at 0.70. Lang is also near the top in strikeouts with 259 in 150.2 innings. Husson (36-4), ranked #19 nationally, is now on a 15 game win streak heading into the NCAA Tournament and did put in a bid to host a regional in Bangor, and will find out that information during the selection show on Monday at 11 a.m. The #2 seeded Thomas College Terriers end their season as the runner-up with a record of 21-20.
