Bowdoin sailing
receives awards
BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin College sailing team was honored in All-New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association awards handed out on Sunday.
Senior Matt Kaplan was named a First Team All-NEISA Skipper, while classmate Louisa Lindgren was named a Second Team All-NEISA Crew.
Bowdoin head coach Frank Pizzo was recognized as the NEISA Coach of the Year.
One of the top skippers in program history, Kaplan has sailed A-Division for the Polar Bears for three of his four years. He has 30 top-five regatta finishes in his Bowdoin career and won the first round of the showcase qualifier last fall lead the team to its best team race season ever (second at Sharpe, first at Rudkin, second at SNETR, fourth at Team Race Qualifiers).
Lindgren is one of the finest crews in Bowdoin history, helping the team qualify for Team Race Nationals for the first time in program history. Top finishes this spring include — Coed Showcase First Round: 1A Coed Showcase Finals: 5A and 5B Match Race NE Champs: Third Schell Trophy: 5A Sharpe Trophy: Second Rudkin Trophy: First Southern New England Team Race: Second NEISA Team Race Champs.
Pizzo, the head coach of the Bowdoin sailing team since 2008, was named NEISA Coach of the Year after leading the Polar Bears to a successful campaign. The 2006 Bowdoin grad has guided the Polar Bears to berths in all three Intercollegiate Sailing Association spring championships — The Sperry Women’s Nationals, The Laser Performance Team Race Nationals and Gill Coed Nationals for the first time in program history.
It is the second time Pizzo has been recognized as the NEISA Coach of the Year, having also received the award in 2012.
Ararat Babe Ruth
still has openings
TOPSHAM — The Ararat Babe Ruth baseball program will hold its tryouts on Sunday.
The program is looking for players and coaches for the upcoming season. All players need to be signed up by Sunday to participate.
For more information, call Scott Ford 729-0343.
Bowdoin’s Savage
2nd team NESCAC
BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College sophomore Harry Savage has been selected to the NESCAC All-Conference team.
Savage earned Second Team honors after playing in 13 games this year for the Polar Bears. He ranked third on the team with 17 caused turnovers and fifth on the squad with 32 ground balls.
Bowdoin finished 6-9 this year.
Bowdoin tracksters
pick up accolades
BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin College track and field teams boasted numerous honorees in All-NESCAC awards announced by the conference on Wednesday.
First-year Lydia Pitts was named the NESCAC Women’s Track and Field Most Outstanding Rookie, while head coach Peter Slovenski along with assistants Lynn Ruddy, L.J. Que and Matthew Harman were named the NESCAC Women’s Track and Field Coaching Staff of the Year.
Pitts is the first Polar Bear to earn the Most Outstanding Rookie honor after finishing as the NESCAC runner-up in the triple jump and placing fifth in the 100-meter hurdles.
The Bowdoin coaching staff helped guide the Polar Bears to a third-place finish at the NESCAC Championships last weekend, the best finish by the program since 1998.
All other All-NESCAC recipients are based on a top-three finish in their event at the NESCAC Championship meet.
In men’s track, Polar Bears honored were Sean MacDonald (10,000 meters), Joseph Staudt (high jump), Reed Foster (long jump), and Mason Freeman, Owen Tuck, Troy Green, Yaw Sekyere (4 x 100 meter relay).
In women’s track, Brittney McKinley (100 meters, 200 meters), Samantha Schaefer (100 meters), Emma Beane (400 meters),
Sara Ory (400 meter hurdles), Pitts (triple jump), Leah Matari (javelin)
Belinda Saint Louis (shot put), Morgen Gallagher, Brittney McKinley, Angela Wallace, Samantha Schaefer (4 x 100 meter relay),
Emma Beane, Morgen Gallagher, Samantha Schaefer, Sara Ory (4 x 400 meter relay), and Delaney Bullock, Abigael Csmanski, Claire Traum, Caroline Shipley (4 x 800 meter relay) were honored.
Bath Destroyers
earns baseball win
BATH — The Bath Middle School baseball team opened its season with a 7-5 back-and-forth victory over Greely recently.
The game featured solid pitching, aggressive baserunning, and timely hits by each team.
Greely jumped ahead 1-0 in the first, but the Destroyers quickly answered with three in the bottom on the frame on singles by Calin Gould, Kiernan Mann and Gabe Morrison.
Greely blanked Bath hitters over the next three innings while scoring a run in the third and fourth frames to tie the game, 3-3.
Bath scored two in the bottom of the fifth inning after a walk to Gould and a single each from Wyatt Wallace and Gavin Baillargeon.
Greely plated two in the top of the sixth to tie the score. The Destroyers came back in the bottom of the inning, scoring a pair of runs on singles by Morrison and Tom MacMahan to take the lead for good.
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