NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. – The Bowdoin baseball team opened the 2020 season with a pair of 8-2 wins over Brandeis on Saturday afternoon.

The Polar Bears begin the season at 2-0, dropping the Judges to 5-3 on the year.

Game One Highlights

• Bowdoin scored in the top of the second as Ben McKenzie tripled to right center, plating Gavin Cann.
• Eric Mah doubled the Polar Bears lead in the following inning, tripling to right. Stephen Simoes followed up with a sacrifice fly to center, scoring Mah.
• Cann popped a solo-homer in the fourth, making it 4-0. The Judges finally responded with a solo-shot of their own in the bottom of the sixth.
• Cann hit another solo homerun in the top of the seventh, sparking a three run inning for the Polar Bears. James McCarthy tagged a double with runners on first and second for an RBI and Simoes had a bases loaded walk for an RBI of his own. Owen Gideon-Murphy capped the inning, grounding out to second, but driving in McCarthy.
• Brandeis got one more run in their final at-bat to make it 82.
• Cann went 3-for-3 at the plate with two RBI. McCarthy was 2-for-3 and Simoes had two RBI.
• Colby Lewis went the distance on the mound, pitching all seven innings and allowing four hits with one walk and five strikeouts.

Game Two Highlights

• Bowdoin put up four runs in the first, benefitting from multiple extra-base hits. Cann had an RBI double and Brendan O'Neil launched a three-run homer.
• Luke Chessie notched an RBI in the third and Simoes had a run-producing single.
• Trailing 6-0, the Judges put up two runs in the fourth. Bowdoin answered in the fifth with another Simoes RBI single. Chessie added one of his own in the sixth.
• Simoes and O'Neil were 3-for-4 with two RBI.
• Seamus Keenan pitched five innings and earned the win, allowing six hits with five strikeouts.
• Jack Mullen pitched one inning, allowing one hit. Ryan Winn closed out the game with an inning of work and two strikeouts.