Pace Ties Record as Bowdoin Sweeps Colby in Season Finale

GAME ONE BOX SCORE
GAME TWO BOX SCORE

WATERVILLE, Maine - The Bowdoin College baseball team completed their season on Saturday with a doubleheader sweep at Colby by scores of 15-7 and 6-5. The Polar Bears finish their year on a six-game winning streak and post a record of 23-15, giving the 2009 squad the third-most victories in the history of the program. Bowdoin has won 20 of their last 21 meetings with Colby dating back to 2002.

Joe Pace took a victory in game one of the doubleheader, improving to 7-0 this season. His seven wins tie the school's single-season record and the junior right-hander posts the best-ever winning percentage by a pitching in a single year in program history with a minimum of four decisions.

Pace got some fine offensive support from Matt Ruane , who smacked a two-run homer in the first inning and added another two-run shot in the sixth. Reid Auger also had a solo homer for the Polar Bears. Dan Hicks had four hits, while Joe Berte added two hits and a pair of RBI. Ryan Conlon, one of five seniors playing their final games for Colby, had two homers and four RBI. He had a solo shot in the second inning and a three-run blast in the seventh.

In the second game, Brendan Garner’s single in the top of the seventh inning brought in Nick Tom with the eventual game-winning run. Hicks had led off with a pinch-hit single and Tom took over on the bases.

Jason Koperniak and Kevin Zikaras both had solo homers for Bowdoin in the second game. Zikaras had his in the first inning and Koperniak led off the fifth inning with his shot. Adam Marquit, Zikaras, and Garner all had two hits for Bowdoin. Carter Butland, who entered the game in the sixth inning, earned the victory for the Polar Bears.