STANDISH – Sarah Webster of Searsport pitched a four-hit shutout to lead the Saint Joseph’s College Monks to their third straight NAIA New England championship with an 8-0 victory over Green Mountain College Sunday.

Saint Joseph’s, now 24-14, advances to the NAIA Northeast Regional (Thursday-Friday) at Lakewood, N.J., along with Green Mountain, Georgian Court, and Holy Family.

Webster struck out four and walked none to improve her record to 14-5. Sarah Ouellette went 3-for-3 with an RBI and a stolen base. Kate Pooler and Deirdre Regan each had two singles.

Erin Graham (9-5) took the loss, allowing 12 hits in six innings.

(Championship)

Saint Joseph’s (24-14) 020 024 – 8 12 0

Green Mountain (11-9) 000 000 – 0 4 1

Webster and Picard; Graham and Chisholm

Hofstra takes 3 of 4 from UMaine

At Orono, Hofstra took three out of four from the University of Maine over the weekend.

The Pride won Saturday’s opener 3-0 before the Black Bears took a 4-1 decision in the second game. On Sunday, Hofstra won 8-4 and 4-0.

In game one Sunday, Amanda Hallaway nailed three singles with an RBI for the Pride, while Mari Shepard doubled and singled (two RBIs) and Lisa Ciavardini tripled.

Erica Sobel doubled for Maine and Nicole Taylor notched an RBI single.

In game two Sunday, Shannon Luther pitched a four-hit shutout for Hofstra. Hallaway ripped three singles and both Christine Moran and Lisa Ciavardini singled twice.

Leigh Ann Hlywak belted two singles for UMaine.

In game one Saturday, Hallaway nailed a two-run home run for Hofstra behind Shannon Luther’s one-hit gem.

Candace Jaegge led the Black Bears with a single.

In game two Sunday, Sobel led the Bears with an RBI double. Amanda Stevens and Karen Sherwood hit RBI singles.

Both LaMeka Anderson and Lindsay Sawyer ripped two doubles for Hofstra.

(Sunday’s First Game)

Hofstra 020 110 4 – 8 13 2

Maine 000 301 0 – 4 4 5

Blois, Alcantara (5) and Almon; Green, Yuhas (7), Jaegge (7) and Bain

(Sunday’s Second Game)

Hofstra (32-23) 000 000 004 – 4 9 1

Maine (12-41) 000 000 000 – 0 4 1

Luther and Almon; Yuhas, Jaegge (7) and Stevens

(Saturday’s First Game)

Hofstra 010 020 0 – 3 7 1

Maine 000 000 0 – 0 1 3

Luther and Almon; Jaegge, Yuhas (6) and Bain

(Saturday’s Second Game)

Hofstra 000 100 0 – 1 7 4

Maine 200 020 x – 4 6 1

Blois and Almon; Green and Bain

Keene State 4, Southern Maine 1

At Danbury, Conn., Missy Zimmerman gave up just two hits, leading Keene State to the win over Southern Maine. The Owls would go on to lose to Western Connecticut 10-0 in the championship game.

Caroline Kurkowski pounded out two homers for two RBIs while Nicole Foote added an RBI double.

For USM, Beth Fulton had a single while 2001 LEC All-Tournament Team outfielder Sunshine Anders also had a single. The Huskies’ Erica Gagnon also made the All-Tourney team.

Southern Maine (21-14) 000 100 0 -1 2 3

Keene State (20-15) 012 001 x -4 9 3

Becher, Gagnon (4), and Fulton; Zimmerman and Burdette

Baseball

Huskies sweep Keene State

At Keene, N.H., on Saturday, the University of Southern Maine shutout Keene State College in both games of a doubleheader.

In game one, Mark Russell pitched a shutout for the Huskies while Pat McDonough nailed an RBI double.

Matt Lavatori struck out four and walked two for the Owls.

In game two, Andy Lang blasted a three-run home run in the first to pace USM while Jody Curcuru and Jason Dority also nailed homers.

Matt Lavatori and Keith Jacobsen each singled for Keene State.

(First Game)

Southern Maine 100 102 000 – 4 9 1

Keene State 000 000 000 – 0 5 0

Russell and L’Italien; Lavatori and Charbono

(Second Game)

Southern Maine (30-9) 410 000 811 – 15 19 1

Keene State (13-13) 000 000 000 – 0 3 2

Adams, Carlson (7), Gunning (8), Pelletier (9) and L’Italien; Cuthbertson, Hartson (6), Gilpatrick (7), Dame (9) and Charbono

Colby splits with Bowdoin

At Waterville Saturday, the Colby White Mules earned their first outright CBB championship since 1995 with a doubleheader split against Bowdoin.

Colby won the first game 14-13 and Bowdoin rebounded with a 9-6 win in game two.

It’s also the first time since 1995 that Colby won CBB titles in baseball and football.

In game one, Colby scored all 14 of its runs in the first four innings as Andy Tripp hit a two-run homer and doubled, Lou Distasi drove in three runs, and Bill Goldman belted a two-run shot. Eric Roy also homered and Kevin Brunelle singled twice.

Greg Lovely homered twice to pace the Polar Bears with four RBIs. Andy Workman and Joe Nicastro each had three hits.

In game two, leadoff hitter Rob Metzler went 4-for-6 with a home run, three RBIs, four runs, and six stolen bases. Metzler reached base safely 11 times in the two games.

For Colby, Lucas Cummings drove in two runs with a double and a single.

(First Game)

Bowdoin (13-17) 038 101 0 – 13 17 1

Colby (12-13) 350 600 x – 14 9 1

Workman, Hernandez (2), Porter (3), Nichols (4) and Clifford; Presbey, Garrett (3), Lord (6) and Roy

(Second Game)

Bowdoin 002 033 010 – 9 12 1

Colby 030 020 010 – 6 11 5

Boruchow and Clifford; Deacon, Kenney (6), Geiger (8) and Owen

Women’s Lacrosse

Middlebury doubles up Colby

At Middlebury, Vt., Julia Bergofsky scored four goals and assisted on two while Kristin Hanley scored four goals and assisted on another to lead Middlebury to a 16-8 victory over Colby in the NESCAC semifinals Saturday.

Char Glessner and Nuala O’Donohoe each had two goals and two assists for the top-seeded Panthers. Katie Simpson scored twice and Sarah Grenert saved nine of 17 shots.

For the 9-5 White Mules, Marcia Ingraham and Robin McCall each had two goals and an assist. Katherine Wheeler and Angela Pappas each scored twice. Anna Schierberl Scherr saved seven of 23 shots.

GW hires Hobbs as coach

WASHINGTON – Karl Hobbs, an assistant at Connecticut the past eight years, was hired as the basketball coach at George Washington.

He succeeds Tom Penders, who resigned last month because he said he was burned out.

Hobbs accepted the GW job on Saturday and was to complete the final details of his contract, school spokesman Brad Bower said Sunday. Hobbs is to be introduced as coach on Monday.

He could not be reached for comment Sunday. A Connecticut spokesman said he was traveling.

Maine coach John Giannini was a candidate and was recently interviewed for the GW job.

The 39-year-old coach takes over a team that went 14-18 last season, including an 8-11 record in the Atlantic 10.

Hobbs is known as a top recruiter and strategist. He recruited three key players on the 1999 Connecticut team that won the NCAA title.

Hobbs is a 1985 Connecticut graduate and former team captain. He was an assistant at Boston College before returning to coach at his alma mater in 1993 under Jim Calhoun.

Calhoun called Hobbs one of the top assistants in the country.

“Karl is deserving of this opportunity. In fact, it’s overdue,” Calhoun said Sunday. “He’s been a very big part of what we’ve accomplished here.”

Also in the running for the George Washington job were St. John’s assistant Kevin Clark, GW women’s coach Joe McKeown and North Carolina-Greensboro coach Fran McCaffery.

George Washington faces the possibility of NCAA violations. The school has confirmed that four men’s basketball players had used the telephone access code of Penders’ son, assistant coach Tommy Penders Jr., to make more than $1,400 worth of long-distance calls during the season.

Penders succeeded Mike Jarvis in 1998 and was 49-42 in three seasons with the Colonials, including a first-round appearance in the NCAA tournament in the 1998-99 season.