Polar Bears Play Crossover Game At Amherst and Suffer Setback

Box Score

AMHERST, Mass. – The Bowdoin baseball team suffered its first loss of the season in a 14-7 batters duel at Amherst on Monday afternoon.

The Polar Bears are 2-1 on the year, while the Mammoths open the season at 1-0.

Game Highlights

Bowdoin scored in the top of the first on Brendan O'Neil's RBI single to left, but the Mammoths responded in the bottom half of the inning with a two-run homer.
Matt Nakamoto tied the game in the second with a solo homerun.
The game got away from the Polar Bears in the second and third as Amherst scored nine total runs.
After scoreless innings for both sides, O'Neil hit a solo homerun in the sixth. With runners on first and third, a fielding error later in the inning plated another run.
In the bottom of the sixth, Amherst scored three more runs to lead Bowdoin 14-4.
The Polar Bears rallied in the final two innings, but couldn't close the gap. Gabe Peckler had an RBI groundout, Owen Gideon-Murphy tagged and RBI double, and Bobby Pearl tagged an RBI single.

By the Numbers

Six pitchers saw action for the Polar Bears. Peter O'Connell had the start, going 2.1 innings, while allowing six hits and nine runs.
Beckett Slayton pitched 1.2 innings and allowed three hits and a pair of runs. Both pitchers had three strikeouts.
James Speer, Peter Mansfield, Luke Chessie, and Michael Weber all pitched one inning.
The Polar Bears totaled 14 hits as a team, led by Stephen Simoes (2-for-4), Pearl (2-for-2), and O'Neil (3-for-5). O'Neil was the only player with multiple RBI.

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