Players representing the University of Southern Maine’s ESports team won playoff matches last week and will compete for the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship in two games this week.
The USM League of Legends team will take on the squad from Sacred Heart University for the ECAC championship, and USM’s solo player, Said Mohamud, will go against the player from Brewton-Parker College for the Madden24 ECAC championship. Both games will be played on Thursday, Dec. 14, at 8 p.m., and both will be streamed live on the USM ESports Twitch stream, with live commentators calling the action.
In addition to competing in the two championship matches, seven USM players won individual ECAC honors for the month of November:
- Richard Johnson was named the Rainbow Six Siege Player of the Month
- Luke Duarte was named the Rainbow Six Siege Rookie of the Month
- Shey Ajayi was named the Counter-Strike 2 Player of the Month
- Zackary McAllister was named the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Player of the Month
- Dean Syed was named the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Rookie of the Month
- Ryder Haines was named the Street Fighter 6 Rookie of the Month
- USM ESports Club Chairman Michael Brown was named the Omega Strikers Player of the Month
“This is something we’re extremely excited about,” Brown said. “Last semester, we had only two teams make the quarter finals, and neither advanced, and only two players won individual awards. Even though we’re a small program, we’re competing for the conference championship in two different games and our players are consistently winning more than their share of individual awards. That really says something about our program here at USM.”
In addition to the USM Huskies ESports Twitch stream, information about the team and the ESports program is available from the USM ESports web page, and the team’s social media feeds on Instagram and Facebook.