GAME ONE BOX SCORE
GAME TWO BOX SCORE
LEWISTON, Maine - Bowdoin College clinched second place in the
NESCAC East Division and a berth in the four-team NESCAC Baseball
Championship with a 2-0 win over the Bates College baseball team in
Game 1 of a doubleheader on Saturday at Leahey Field. The host
Bobcats rebounded to split the twinbill with a 7-2 win in Game 2.
The Polar Bears (23-12, 6-6 NESCAC East) make their first trip
to NESCACs since 2007 and will play Williams, the top seed in the
NESCAC West Division, to start the NESCAC Championship on Friday at
Bentley University. Bowdoin hosts Southern Maine on Tuesday at 4
p.m. in its regular-season finale.
Bates (23-10, 6-6 NESCAC East) ran its school-record win total to
23, and tied Bowdoin and Trinity for second place in the NESCAC
division. The Polar Bears move forward after taking two out of
three from both the Bantams and the Bobcats.
Joe Pace blanked the Bobcats in Game 1, scattering five hits and
four walks over seven shutout innings, while striking out five to
raise his record to 3-2 on the season. Pace outdueled Bates
sophomore Karl Alexander, who submitted an excellent start, holding
the Polar Bears scoreless over the first four innings and allowing
two runs in a complete-game, seven-inning performance, allowing
just seven hits with no walks while striking out six batters.
Bowdoin scored a run in the fifth as Dan Findley led off with a
double, advanced to third on a groundout and came home on Reid
Auger's ground-rule double that hopped the fence in center field.
Alexander struck out Matt Ruane looking to end the damage.
But the Polar Bears got an insurance run in the sixth. Brett
Gorman hit a one-out single, moved to second on a wild pitch and
scored on a single to left by Joe Comizio. Pace got Tom Beaton to
ground out to second for the final out in the seventh to clinch the
2-0 win and the playoff spot, rendering Game 2 less meaningful.
Still, Bates rallied for six runs in the third inning off of
Bowdoin starter Tim Welch (4-2). Bates carried the lead into
the seventh inning, when Bowdoin finally scored on a solo home run
by Auger to left field. Auger led the Polar Bears' offense with two
hits, including a homer, and two RBIs.
