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Winner Bowdoin BOW 12-7
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U. of New England UNE 5-14
Winner
Bowdoin BOW
12-7
12
Final
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U. of New England UNE
5-14
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Bowdoin BOW 4 4 3 0 1 12 14 0
U. of New England UNE 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3

W: A. Halliday (3-3) L: Arvidson, Liv (0-3)

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Winner Bowdoin BOW 13-7
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U. of New England UNE 5-15
Winner
Bowdoin BOW
13-7
6
Final
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U. of New England UNE
5-15
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Bowdoin BOW 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 6 12 0
U. of New England UNE 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 6 0

W: K. Hester (4-2) L: Kinsella, Mo (3-5)

Game Recap: Softball |

Bowdoin claims pair against UNE (12-0, 6-3)

Game 1 Statistics
Game 2 Statistics

BIDDEFORD, Maine -- Bowdoin College plated five runs in the top of the 6th inning to overtake the University of New England for a 6-3 softball result in the light rain at Nor'easter Diamond on Wednesday evening (Apr. 10). The Polar Bears had taken the opener of the non-conference doubleheader, 12-0 (5 innings).

Chloe Garcia amassed seven RBI for Bowdoin (13-7) during the contests, while Anika Ewert and Elise Siciliano topped the offense with four hits apiece.

For the Nor'easters (5-15), Emma Michaud extended her reached-base streak to 18 games. The rookie second baseman holds a .451 on-base percentage and leads the squad with a .356 batting average.

GAME 2 (BOW 6-3) went scoreless into the 3rd frame, when UNE struck first on an RBI-single by Michaud. Hannah Irons sliced the first pitch of the inning into the right field corner to get into position for the run.

A one-out RBI-single by JK Bradley tied things in the 4th, and the Polar Bears were primed for more after loading the bases, but a strikeout and groundout ended the threat.

The hosts regained the advantage (2-1) in the 5th, as a pair of walks to start the at-bat set up Olivia Howe for an RBI-double into the left field corner. The two runners in scoring position were stranded, though, as eventual winning pitcher Kathleen Hester sandwiched a lineout to third with strikeouts to escape the inning.

Bowdoin's bats started clicking in the 6th, with five hits after a one-out walk on the way to a 6-2 lead. Penelope Fong-Picariello (double) and Garcia each plated two, before Siciliano's game-high third hit drove in one more.

UNE got one back in the bottom of the stanza with a walk aided by a sacrifice and a couple wild pitches, but Hester was able to finish it off from there with five strikeouts in three innings of work. Starter Maddie Current and Ava Biasotti both fanned a pair during the first four innings.

Howe accounted for two of the six hits by the Nor'easters. In the circle, Mo Kinsella pitched well through five frames but took the setback.

The Polar Bears came out firing in GAME 1 (BOW 12-0), receiving triples from Fong-Picariello and Sydney Lang (RBI) to help a four-run 1st. Anna Halliday's first of two singles in the contest also drove in one. Three singles then kicked things off in the 2nd, and Garcia brought them all in with the first home run by any team in Biddeford this season. The visitors filled the bases again with one out, however, the UNE defense was able to hold the margin at 8-0.

Siciliano, who ended up scoring three times, added an RBI-single in the 3rd. Lang notched a game-best three hits, which included a two-run single in the 3rd and an RBI-double in the 5th, bringing her up to four runs batted in.

Halliday registered three strikeouts over four innings to pick up the victory for Bowdoin, before Current closed it out in the 5th.

Out of UNE's three hits in the afternoon session, Fiona Casey tallied a double up the middle in the 1st.

Next up: the Nor'easters welcome in Curry College for a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) set on Saturday (12 p.m.).