AMHERST, Mass. – The Bowdoin baseball team saw its season come to an end after dropping games two and three to Amherst in the NESCAC Quarterfinals.
The Polar Bears conclude the season with an 18-17 record after falling 2-1 on a walk-off single in game one and dropping game two by a 12-4 margin.
Game One Highlights
- Amherst scored in the top of the first to take a 1-0 lead off an RBI single up the middle with runners on second and third.
- Bowdoin found an equalizer in the fifth inning off the bat of Reuban Siegel. With the bases loaded, Luka Tsai scored on Siegel's sacrifice fly to left.
- The Mammoths played small ball in the ninth to put a runner on second base. A single to center plated the game-winning run.
- Ryan Novitski, Alex Saavedra, and Sam Sacerdote combined to allow six hits, four walks, and a pair of strikeouts.
Game Two Highlights
- The Mammoths took an early lead with a two-run single in the second inning.
- Bowdoin tied the game in the fifth as Ben McKenzie was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and Siegel recorded an RBI groundout.
- Amherst regained the lead in the sixth to go ahead 3-2.
- Bowdoin's CJ Brito-Trinidad tied the game with a solo homerun to left field and Stephen Simoes put Bowdoin ahead with a single down the right field line.
- Amherst took over from there with a seven run seventh and another two runs in the eighth.
- Tsai and Brito-Trinidad both had a multi-hit game.
- Bowdoin's pitchers allowed 15 hits and ten earned runs.