New for the 2011-2012 seasons, the America East Daily Word, a collaboration between AmericaEast.com and AExtra, will recap the previous day's games and on goings on our nine campuses and provide links to previews, recaps, features and exclusive coverage.

Things couldn’t have started any better for the Maine baseball team this season. Under the lights on a Friday night at then No. 16 Clemson, a two-run eighth inning rally propelled the Black Bears past the Tigers, 6-5, in the season opener.

Maine then hit a bout with inconsistency over the remaining portion of the southern trip, playing well at points but struggling at others.

Now the Black Bears search for that consistent play as they begin the northern portion of their schedule. Pete Warner of the Bangor Daily News wrote an article in today’s paper that breaks down the season so far.

“We played like a [NCAA] regional team at times and we played like a Little League team a times,” Maine coach Steve Trimper said in the article. “We just need to get a little more consistent and that will come.”

Check out Warner’s article on the Black Bears, here.

Maine looks to pick up the big hits up north starting Friday at the Strike Out Cancer Tourney against New Jersey Tech.

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