BRUNSWICK, Maine (courtesy Bowdoin Sports Information) - The Brandeis University baseball team dropped a road doubleheader on Sunday afternoon at Bowdoin College, 2-1 in the opener and 10-5 in the second game. The twinbill featured a pair of head coaches who were teammates under legendary coach Pete Varney - the Judges' Derek Carlson '91 and the Polar Bears' Mike Connolly '94.

Game One Highlights

• Despite a fine start from Brandeis junior Liam Coughlin (Townsend, Mass./Lowell Catholic), Bowdoin took advantage of a pair of Brandeis miscues to earn the game one win, 2-1
• In the first inning, Nick Sadler stole third and then came home on a throwing error by Brandeis
• The Judges evened the score on the fifth when grad student Rob Trenk (West Orange, N.J./West Orange) doubled to left and came home on an RBI single by senior Liam O'Connor (Avon, Conn./Avon)
• In the sixth, Bowdoin pushed across the game-winning run when Luke Cappellano walked, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt and moved to third on a groundout. With Jack Wilhoite at the plate, Coughlin uncorked a wild pitch and Cappellano scampered home to score
• Kyle Stanley secured the win for Bowdoin with two innings of relief, including a 1-2-3 seventh. Richard Arms took the no-decision after five solid innings of work, allowing five hits and one earned run
• Coughlin took the hard-luck loss by going six innings for Brandeis, permitting just one earned run and striking out six while allowing just two hits

Game Two Highlights 

• In a polar opposite of game one's pitching duel, game two saw the teams hammer out 15 combined runs and 18 combined hits 
• Brandeis plated four in the first inning, fueled by a three-run homer by senior catcher Connor Doyle (Avon, Conn./Avon Old Farms).
• It was Doyle's second blast of the season and the fourth of his career.
• Bowdoin answered in the second frame as Evann Dumont-LaPointe tripled home Sean Mullaney and Chad Martin and then came around on a Chris Nadeau single to cut the lead to 4-3
• The Polar Bears took the lead for good with four runs in the third inning. Dumont-LaPointe again delivered the big blow, a two-run single, to give Bowdoin its first lead of the game
• Brandeis cut the lead to 7-5 on a senior SS Jay Schaff (Cheshire, Conn./Xavier) RBI single in the fourth, scoring classmate RF Max Hart (Montville, Conn./Montville)
• But Bowdoin scored three more runs to clinch the game in the sixth, getting RBI's from Joe Gentile, Martin and Mullaney to put the game on ice
• Max Vogel-Freedman got the win in relief for Bowdoin, tossing 1.1 innings and allowing one hit. Ryan Dixon earned the save with 2.2 innings to close out the game
• Senior Ryan Healy (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon) took the loss for Brandeis, allowing six earned runs in 2.2 frames
• Dumont-LaPointe reached base three times for Bowdoin, going 2-2 with four RBI, two runs and a walk
• Hart and sophomore Luke Zeccola (Garden City, N.Y./Chaminade) led the Brandeis attack with two hits each

Up Next

• Brandeis is back in action tomorrow at Springfield (3:30 p.m.)

• Bowdoin is off until Friday when they travel to Waterville to face Colby at 3:00 p.m.