WALTHAM, Mass. – The Brandeis University baseball team dropped a pair of contests to Bates College in their first home games of the season today, 13-8 and 9-3.

TEAM RECORDS

• Brandeis, 2-6.
• Bates, 6-2.

HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME 1 (Bates 13, Brandeis 8)

• Runs came in every inning but the first in the opening game. Bates got things started with an RBI single by 2B Brennan Kelley, with two more runs coming as a result of Brandeis errors to give the Bobcats a 3-0 lead.
• The Judges got things evened up in the bottom of the frame, loading the bases with two away when senior CF Sam Nugent (Mansfield, Mass. / Mansfield) delivered a single to center that plated two runs. The third run came home when the throw to third sailed into the Brandeis dugout.
• The Bobcats answered in the third with a solo home run by 1B Henry Jamieson. CF Tyler Attal added a two-run double as part of a four-run fourth that gave the visitors an 8-3 lead.
• Brandeis got one back in the bottom of the inning on an infield grounder from junior Mike DiCenso (Cranston, R.I. / Moses Brown) that plated rookie RF Jake Beaney (Belvidere, N.J. / Belvidere), but Bates's Drew Fallon's bomb in the fifth made it 9-4, Bobcats. The visitors tacked on three more in that frame and another in the sixth to go ahead, 13-4.
• Bates scored four times in the bottom of the seventh to make things interesting, but the deficit was too much to overcome.

HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME 2 (Bates 9, Brandeis 3)

• In a nine-inning game, the visitors scored runs in six of the first eight frames to pick up the win.
• Attal opened the scoring with a solo home run in the second inning. Fallon continued his hot day in the third with a steal of home and an RBI double in the fourth that made it 4-0.
• A two-run single by 3B Christopher Cimino in the fourth followed by some untimely miscues by the Judges made it 9-0 in the eighth.
• Brandeis spoiled the shutout bid in the ninth with a two-run triple by Nugent and an RBI double by first-year DH Alex Kim (Basking Ridge, N.J. / Seton Hall Prep), but could get no closer than the 9-3 final.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORES

• Brandeis's top hitters on the day were Nugent, who went 3-for-8 with four RBI and a triple, and senior LF Steven Simon (Hanover, Mass. / Hanover), who was 3-for-8 with a pair of doubles.
• Bates's top hitters were Cimino, who went 4-for-8 with five RBI and two runs scored; and Jamieson, who was 4-for-8 with three RBI, two runs scored, three stolen bases and a home run.  
• The Bobcats got winning pitching performances from both their starters. Max Dio won the opener to improve to 2-0, going five innings with four hits, four runs (three earned), one walk and one strikeout.