BRUNSWICK, Maine - The Bowdoin College baseball team rebounded from a pair of Saturday losses to sweep Brandeis, 2-1 and 10-5, in a doubleheader at Pickard Field on Sunday afternoon.

The wins improve the Polar Bears to 12-8 this season while the Judges fall to 8-14-1 on the year.

Game One Highlights

• Bowdoin took advantage of a pair of Brandeis miscues to earn the game one win, 2-1
• In the first inning, Nick Sadler stole third and then came home on a throwing error by Brandeis
• The Judges evened the score on the fifth when Rob Trenk doubled to left and came home on Liam O'Connor's RBI single
• In the sixth, Bowdoin pushed across the game-winning run when Luke Cappellano walked, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt and moved to third on a groundout. With Jack Wilhoite at the plate, Brandeis' Liam Coughlin uncorked a wild pitch and Cappellano scampered home to score
• Kyle Stanley secured the win for Bowdoin with two innings of relief, including a 1-2-3 seventh. Richard Arms took the no-decision after five solid innings of work, allowing five hits and one earned run
• Coughlin took the hard-luck loss by going six innings for Brandeis, permitting just one earned run and striking out six while allowing just two hits

Game Two Highlights

• In a polar opposite of game one's pitching duel, game two saw the teams hammer out 15 combined runs and 18 combined hits
• Brandeis plated four in the first inning, fueled by a three-run homer by Connor Doyle
• Bowdoin answered in the second frame as Evann Dumont-LaPointe tripled home Sean Mullaney and Chad Martin and then came around on a Chris Nadeau single to cut the lead to 4-3
• The Polar Bears took the lead for good with four runs in the third inning. Dumont-LaPointe again delivered the big blow, a two-run single, to give Bowdoin its first lead of the game
• Brandeis cut the lead to 7-5 on a Jay Schaff RBI single in the fourth, scoring Max Hart
• But Bowdoin scored three more runs to clinch the game in the sixth, getting RBI's from Joe Gentile, Martin and Mullaney to put the game on ice
• Max Vogel-Freedman got the win in relief for Bowdoin, tossing 1.1 innings and allowing one hit. Ryan Dixon earned the save with 2.2 innings to close out the game
• Ryan Healy took the loss for Brandeis, allowing six earned runs in 2.2 frames
• Dumont-LaPointe reached base three times for Bowdoin, going 2-2 with four RBI, two runs and a walk
• Hart and Luke Zeccola led the Brandeis attack with two hits each

Up Next

• Bowdoin is off until Friday when they travel to Waterville to face Colby at 3:00 p.m.
• Brandeis is back in action tomorrow at Springfield (3:30 p.m.)