GAME ONE BOX SCORE
GAME TWO BOX SCORE
BRUNSWICK, Maine - The Bowdoin College softball team completed a
weekend sweep of Colby, earning a pair of victories on Saturday at
Pickard Field, 8-6 and 4-3. The Polar Bears improve to 23-9 (4-2
NESCAC) while the Mules fall to 6-16 (0-6 NESCAC). Bowdoin's Kara
NIlan set the school's consecutive scoreless innings streak in the
game one victory.
Entering the game with 23.1 straight scoreless frames, Nilan
tossed 4.1 more against the Mules Saturday as Bowdoin built a 6-0
lead. Clare Ronan ripped an RBI single in the first and Caroline
Dewar scored on a wild pitch in the third for the Polar Bears.
Bowdoin scored four runs in the fourth, aided by a pair of Colby
errors, before the Mules bounced back for five runs in the fifth.
Barbara Santos delivered the big blow, connecting on a two-run
triple as Colby trimmed the lead to 6-5.
Amy Hackett gave Bowdoin some insurance in the fifth, however,
blasting a home run as Nilan went 6.2 innings, allowing four earned
runs with six strikeouts in the win. Michelle Wells stopped a
ninth-inning rally by Colby to garner the save. Lauren Becker
permitted six runs - one earned - in four innings to take the loss
for the Mules. Nilan's 27.2 consecutive scoreless innings, dating
back to April 3, breaks the former mark held by Gina Laugelli '02,
who tossed 24.2 in 2001.
The Polar Bears had to rally for the win in game two, as a
sixth-inning sacrifice fly by Lizzi Fort and a run-scoring single
by Katie Graichen gave Colby a late 3-2 lead. But Molly Nestor tied
the game with a single that scored Clare Ronan in the bottom of the
frame and, with pinch-runner Toni DaCampo on third base later in
the inning, Hillary Smyth lined a single that skipped just before
reaching the glove of Colby's Christine Gillespie at
shortstop, allowing the go-ahead run to score. Julia Jacobs earned
the win in relief, going 1.1 innings without allowing a run.
Brittany Tasi took the loss in the circle for Colby, allowing two
earned runs in six innings.
