HARTFORD, Conn. – The Bowdoin softball team split its Saturday series at Trinity with a 5-4 rally win in game one and 8-3 loss in game two.
 
The Polar Bears head home with a 26-7 (10-6 NESCAC) record. The Bantams are 17-11 (8-6 NESCAC).
 
Game One Highlights

• Bowdoin's Anika Ewert put Bowdoin on the board in the top of the first, scoring on a wild pitch.
• The Bantams answered in the bottom half of the inning with an RBI groundout.
• Rosie Panenka gave Bowdoin a 3-1 lead in the second, doubling to right center, and driving in Sammie Wright and Margaret Flannery-Goodman.
• RBI singles in the third and fifth tied the game for Trinity. The Bantams took the lead off Katie Ruffer's sacrifice fly to center in the fifth.
• Wright tied the game in the sixth, singling up the middle. Maddie Paschke came through with the seventh inning go-ahead run by singling to left.
• Paschke hit 3-for-4 and Panenka was 2-for-3.
• Maddie Current went five innings in the circle with four runs allowed off a matching number of hits. The senior struck out a pair.
• Kathleen Hester pitched the final two innings and allowed one hit with two strikeouts.

 
Game Two Highlights

• Trinity jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first and never looked back.
• Unearned runs plagued the Polar Bears with two more Trinity runs in the third.
• Kaitlyn Fado put Bowdoin on the board with a two-run single up the middle.
• The Bantams responded in the bottom half of the inning with a matching number of runs.
• Reilly Parga hit a solo homerun to left in the sixth, making it 7-3.
• The Bantams added on final run in the sixth.
• Ewert was the only Polar Bear to have a multi-hit game.
• Sophia Hahn suffered the loss with 4.2 innings of work and seven hits allowed. Ava Biasotti pitched the remainder of the game and surrendered a pair of hits and one run.

Up Next

• Bowdoin plays its rescheduled doubleheader against the University of Southern Maine on Thursday at 5:00 p.m.