BRUNSWICK, Maine - The Bowdoin College men's lacrosse team scored the first six goals of the second half to pull away from Babson in an eventual 12-6 win on Tuesday evening at Ryan Field.

The 14th-ranked Polar Bears extend their win streak to six games and improve to 6-1 overall on the season. Babson falls to 1-6 on the year with the setback.

Game Highlights

• The teams traded goals in a low-scoring first half
• Babson grabbed a 3-2 lead on a man-up goal from Spencer Low with 5:48 remaining in the first half
• Bowdoin was able to even the score 2:11 before the break as Matthew Crowell put home an unassisted goal to deadlock the contest at 3-3 heading into halftime
• Peter Reuter scored consecutive goals in the third quarter to spark Bowdoin's decisive run
• Daniel Buckman gave the Polar Bears a 6-3 lead late in the third quarter and Shawn Daly scored three straight goals to open the fourth quarter as Bowdoin extended its lead to 9-3 with under ten minutes to go
• Babson stemmed the tide with a goal from Samuel Mishkind with 6:53 remaining, cutting the lead to 9-4
• Bowdoin put the game on ice with three straight scores to lead by as many as eight goals en route to the win

By The Numbers

• Sam Carlin dominated on the faceoff dot for Bowdoin, winning 16 of 17 to control possession for the Polar Bears
• Daly finished with a game-high four goals while Reuter, Crowell, Buckman and Wright each had two goals and an assist for Bowdoin
• Axel Brown had a goal and an assist to lead the Babson scoring
• Peter Mumford made  13 saves in the victory for Bowdoin while Jordan Shapiro stopped 11 for Babson

Up Next

• Bowdoin will return to action Saturday with a game at home against Trinity at 2:00 p.m.
• Babson hosts Springfield on Saturday at noon in its next contest