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The Bowdoin College baseball team cruised to an 11-1 victory on Monday afternoon at Thomas College.

The Polar Bears (14-10) out-hit the Terriers (14-13) by an 11-6 margin en route to the team’s second consecutive victory.

Luke Cappellano drove in three runs in the top of the second inning off a double to right field. The Polar Bears added two more runs in the third off an error and wild pitch.

Ben Suski homered to left center in the sixth inning to put two more runs on the board for Bowdoin. Suski tallied another RBI in the eighth inning, driving in Sean Mullaney, with a double to right. Joe Gentile added to the Polar Bears run tally with an RBI single to left that drove in Suski. Ejazz Jiu tagged a two-run single to center in the final inning, giving Bowdoin the 11-1 lead.

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Richard Arms went eight innings on the mound for the Polar Bears to earn the win with one earned run and a pair of strikeouts. Arms allowed five hits. Ryan Dixon closed out the game for Bowdoin with an inning of work, giving up one hit.

Cappellano and Suski led the Polar Bears with three RBIs apiece. Chad Martin joined the pair in hitting a double in the game. Cappellano ended the day going 3- for-5 at the plate.

Bowdoin hosts Husson University Thursday at 4 p.m.

Track

Bowdoin sophomore Brian Greenberg has been named the New England Small College Athletic Conference Men’s Field Performer of the Week.

Greenberg was outstanding this past weekend at Middlebury’s Panther Invitational, winning both the long jump and the triple jump. His distance of 47- 03.25 in the triple jump vaulted him into 10th place on the current NCAA D-III list, while his long jump of 21-11 is the third-best in the NESCAC this spring.

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The Polar Bears will return to action on Saturday as they compete for the title at the Maine State Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship hosted by Colby.

Softball

St. Joseph’s College used a walk-off single in the seventh inning to secure the twinbill sweep of Bowdoin on Tuesday evening.

The Monks (17-11) jumped out to an early lead in game one to take a 5-2 victory.

Bowdoin (14-13-2) held the hosts to one run until the final inning in the second game when Saint Joseph’s tallied a one-out single to end the game, 2-1.

Saint Joseph’s jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first behind an RBI single from Mariah Harrison and an unearned run off one of Bowdoin’s four errors in the game. After reaching first on an error to begin the second, Katie Chadbourne eventually scored to extend the Monks lead to three.

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Harrison lofted a sacrifice fly to center in the bottom of the sixth to drive in Saint Joseph’s fourth run of the game and another Polar Bear error allowed the hosts to take a 5-0 lead.

Bowdoin put a pair of runs

on the board in the final inning as the Polar Bears put runners on first and second for an RBI single by Caroline Rice. Ali Miller added to the tally with a sacrifice fly to right.

Katie Gately paced the Bowdoin offense by going 2-for-3. Julia Geaumont pitched all six innings for Bowdoin and allowed two earned runs with five strikeouts.

Melodie Bailey launched a solo home run to lead-off the bottom of the first for the Monks in the second game.

Bowdoin evened the game at 1-1 in the third, a score that stood until the final inning, as Geaumont tagged an RBI single to center field that scored Claire McCarthy.

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The two teams traded quick innings until the bottom of the seventh. With runners on first and second, Kelsy Gaddy knocked a single up the middle for a walk-off victory.

Samantha Roy started the game for Bowdoin and pitched four innings with four hits allowed and one run. Emily Griffin pitched the final 2.1 innings.

McCarthy and Lauren O’Shea each went 2-for-3 at the plate.

Bowdoin plays a doubleheader at UMaine-Farmington on Thursday beginning at 4 p.m.


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