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USM s Lauren Merrill, an Oxford Hills graduate, speaks with head coach Sarah Jamo in the circle during a game earlier this season. Cullen McIntyre photo
Madison Day and Lauren Merrill’s Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School softball careers didn’t end the way they hoped.
None of them want this spring season their new team to end.
Kirsten Pelletier, a former Bates College standout, is playing for the University of Southern Maine as a graduate student this season.
Cullen McIntyre photo
For Day and Merrill, this is their first year on the University of Southern Maine softball team. Same for Pelletier, but it’s also her last, having graduated from Bates in 2020 and utilizing a fifth year of eligibility as a graduate student at USM this season. Each of them has played a key role on a Huskies team that is in the midst of a memorable season, as has sophomore Hannah Shields of Buckfield, who didn’t get a season last year because of COVID-19.