HARTFORD, Conn. – The Bowdoin softball team opened conference play with a pair of 12-3 losses to Trinity with both games being completed in five innings.
The Polar Bears had to wait well over a week to return to play after a successful trip to Florida. Bowdoin is now 11-5 (0-2 NESCAC), while the Bantams are 11-6 (3-1 NESCAC).
Game One Highlights
- Bowdoin jumped to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first off Elise Siciliano drove in a run with an RBI groundout.
- Trinity answered in the bottom half of the inning to tie the game.
- The Bantams put five runs on the board in the second inning to open up a 6-1 lead.
- Gary continued her day of driving in runs with an RBI single in the third. Siciliano had her second RBI of the game, plating Gary.
- Trinity had another five-run inning in the bottom of the inning and added a 12th total run in the fourth.
- Gary and Ewert were the only Polar Bears with hits in the game.
- Maddie Current and Anna Halliday split time in the circle, both allowing six total runs.
Game Two Highlights
- Bowdoin was in an early hole as the Bantams went ahead 3-0 after two innings.
- Kyla Gary doubled to left field and drove in Anika Ewert it out Bowdoin on the board.
- Trinity scored four runs in the bottom of the fourth, but Gary again drove in a run in the top of the following inning. Sydney Lang also recorded an RBI to make it 7-3.
- Trinity ended the game in the fifth inning with a two-run homer and a three-run homer.
- Gary and Ewert each had a pair of hits in the game.
- Kathleen Hester suffered the loss in the circle with four innings of work and four earned runs off five hits. Ava Biasotti pitched the abbreviated bottom of the fifth.
Up Next
- Bowdoin plays at Williams on April 6.
