TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Mike MacDonald and Adam Labelle combined on a one-hitter Thursday night, leading the University of Maine baseball team to a 3-1 victory over Florida A&M.

The Black Bears snapped a two-game losing streak while improving to 9-2 heading into today’s 2 p.m. game against the Rattlers.

MacDonald, a freshman righthander from Camden, pitched six innings of one-hit, one-run ball while improving to 2-0. He carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning, when Linnell Bradley led off with a single.

MacDonald struck out two, walked two and hit three batters.

Labelle, a sophomore righthander, pitched three innings of no-hit shutout ball to register his first save. He struck out two and walked one.

Jesse Carlton paced the UMaine offense with two singles, including a two-out RBI single in the fifth inning that proved to be the winning run. Quin Peel contributed a pinch-hit RBI single with two out in the seventh to score Joe Drapeau of Biddeford, who had led off with a single.

Pat Tobin added a double for the Bears.

UMaine took a 1-0 lead in the third when Mike Ross drew a one-out walk and scored with two out when Jon Hambelton’s deep fly ball was misplayed for an error by the center fielder.

The Rattlers equalized in the third when MacDonald hit the first two batters and walked the next before Bradley delivered a sacrifice fly to center field. However, MacDonald pitched his way out of further trouble as catcher Drapeau threw out a runner trying to steal and MacDonald recorded an inning-ending strikeout.

Andy Pace took the loss for 4-15 Florida A&M despite allowing only one earned run in six innings.

Black Bears 3, Rattlers 1

Maine (9-2) Florida A&M (4-15)

Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI

Livulpi, cf 3 1 1 0 Bacon, lf 3 0 0

Ross, lf 2 1 0 0 Bradley, ss 3 0 1

Drapeau, c-3b 4 1 1 0 Curry, rf 0 0

Hambelton, dh 4 0 1 0 Bailey, rf 3 0

a-Genest 0 0 0 0 Palmer, 3b 3 0 0

Carlton, 1b 3 0 2 1 Wilson, 1b 4 0 0

Picard, 2b-c 4 0 0 0 Von Dolteren, c 4 0 0

Tobin, 3b 1 0 1 0 Norton, dh 3 0 0

Peel, 2b 1 0 1 1 Parker, 2b 3 1 0

Williams, rf 2 0 0 0 Smith, cf 2 0 0

Young, rf 1 0 0 0

Tucker, rf 1 0 0 0

Reichley, ss 4 0 0 0

Totals 30 3 7 2 Totals 28 1 1 1

Maine 001 010 100 ? 3

Florida A&M 001 000 000 ? 1

a?ran for Hambelton in the ninth

E?Williams Carlton, Drapeau; Smith; LOB?Maine 14; Florida A&M 7; D?Tobin; DP?Maine, Florida A&M; S?Young, Picard; SF?Bradley; SB?Livulpi; Bacon, Bradley, Curry, Norton

Maine IP H R ER BB SO

MacDonald (W,2-0) 6 1 1 1 2 3

Labelle (S,1) 3 0 0 0 1 2

Florida A&M IP H R ER BB SO

Pace (L,0-6) 6 5 2 1 7 6

Brown 2? 2 1 1 5 2

Braun ? 0 0 0 0 0

HBP?Parker, Smith, Palmer by MacDonald; WP?Brown; PB?Drapeau; T?2:55; ATT?91

Softball

Southern Maine splits

At Cape Coral, Fla., the University of Southern Maine picked up its first win of the season by shutting out Grand View College of Des Moines, Iowa, 6-0 in the second of two games.

North Central College of Naperville, Ill., beat the Huskies 4-3 in the opener.

In the second game, Jessie Becher pitched a complete game-shutout for USM. They broke out on top in the third on an RBI triple by Sunshine Anders. Brianna Libby added an RBI double for the Huskies.

In the first game, Amanda Talley’s two-run homer in the fifth helped North Central rally from three runs down.

Sunshine Anders smacked a triple for USM.

First Game

Southern Maine 101 100 0 – 3 3 2

North Central (11-2) 000 022 x – 4 7 2

Gagnon and Heath; Ingram and Paryl

Second Game

Grand View (4-6) 000 000 0 – 0 2 1

Southern Maine (1-1) 002 022 x – 6 6 1

Regnier and Wessing; Becher and Kimball

Maine, Bethune-Cookman split

At Daytona Beach, Fla., Candace Jaegge scattered five hits in the second game of a doubleheader, helping the University of Maine earn a split with Bethune-Cookman.

The Wildcats won the opener 9-1, before the Black Bears took the nightcap 3-2 to snap a 13-game losing streak.

In the opener, Lamia Scott singled three times as the Bethune-Cookman cruised. Miranda Mayse scattered four hits.

Loser Ashley Yuhas doubled for the Bears.

In the second game, the Wildcats stranded 10 runners in scoring position as UMaine escaped with a victory.

The Bears scored all three runs in the third inning.

(First Game)

Maine 000 10 – 1 4 3

Bethune-Cookman 212 04 – 9 13 0

Yuhas, Green (5) and Bain; Mayse, Cabato (5) and Harrison

(Second Game)

Maine (5-19) 030 000 0 -3 4 1

Bethune-Cookman (23-16) 002 000 0 -2 5 1

Jaegge and Stevens; Cabato, Mayse (2) and Harrison, Cindric (2)