Portland Maine News

The Bowdoin softball team split a pair of games against St. Catherine University and Union College to conclude play in Florida.

 

The Polar Bears return home with a 7-7 record. The Wildcats are 6-8 following the 12-6 victory over Bowdoin. Bowdoin pinned an 8-2 setback on Union (0-6).

 

Game One Highlights

• St. Kate's jumped to a 5-0 lead after one inning of action.
• Ava Biasotti put Bowdoin in the game with one swing of the bat with a three-run double.
• The Wildcats stretched their lead to 7-3 with a pair of RBI singles.
• Power hitting continued to keep the Polar Bears close as Katryna Dukehart knocked a two-run double in the third.
• St. Kate's added five more runs in the remaining innings, with Bowdoin only mustering one rebuttal run in the top of the seventh.
• JK Bradley, Angelina Mayers, Shea Sullivan, Dukehart, and Biasotti all had multi-hit days.
• Bowdoin stranded eight runners on base.
• Biasotti and Abby Allen each pitched three innings.

Game Two Highlights

• Bowdoin produced eight runs in the first three innings.
• After allowing one Union run to open the game, Bradley and Sullivan both recorded RBI in the bottom of the inning.
• Bradley added an RBI single in the second. Mayers tagged a one-run double and Dukehart sent a sacrifice fly to center that plated Bradley.
• Bowdoin scored three runs in the third to make it 8-1.
• Union snuck one more run across the plate in the fourth inning, but could not close the scoring gap.
• Maddie Current pitched a complete game and allowed just two hits and one earned run. Current fanned six batters.
• Bradley, Mayers, and Kyla Gary all had two hits. Bradley drove in three runs.

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