A handful of NorthWest area athletes make up what University of Massachusetts at Lowell softball coach Harry Sauter is calling "probably the best overall talent we've ever brought in here."

Junior Liz Mucica, sophomore Lauren Maruca and incoming freshman Marissa Fiorentino highlighted the UMass Lowell softball team’s 2008-09 incoming class, Head Coach Harry Sauter announced.

It’s called giving back.  Former UMass Lowell teammates Kristen Mahoney & Melissa Hanafin, and Jacqui Riley were three key members of the Burlington High softball team that won a Middlesex League championship in 2002.

Laurie Tanguay, a senior from Lowell, MA, and Matias Pietropinto, a junior from Leominster, MA, were named the recipients of the Lester H. Cushing Award for the Female and Male Athletes of the Year Tuesday night at UMass Lowell’s 2008 Athletic Awards Night.

Senior Julie Brodie (Chelmsford, MA) was one of three UMass Lowell softball players to earn postseason regional and academic honors on Thursday.

Senior Laurie Tanguay (Lowell, MA) and junior Stacey Lajoie (Gardner, MA) led four UMass Lowell softball players named to the Northeast-10 Conference All-Star Teams, released Monday.

The UMass Lowell softball team, the 2007 Northeast-10 Tournament Champion, received the No. 4 seed and will meet No. 5 Pace University Saturday (11:00) in the 2008 NE-10 Tournament hosted by Le Moyne College.

UMass Lowell’s Softball team announces schedule change.

Seniors Julie Brodie (Chelmsford, MA) and Tim Manton (Swansea, MA) led two UMass Lowell softball and baseball players named to the Northeast-10 Conference All-Academic Teams, released Tuesday.

Since the start of UMass Lowell's softball season, Laurie Tanguay has been locked into the type of groove at the plate where she looks as comfortable as a kid hitting in her own backyard.