LEWISTON – Bates took advantage of seven Bowdoin errors en route to an 8-1 victory in a NESCAC softball game Friday.

Kristen Finn scattered eight hits and four walks, while striking out three in earning her fourth straight win for Bates (7-10). Karen Reni accepted the loss in a complete-game effort, allowing eight runs (five earned) on seven hits and two walks.

The Polar Bears (15-11) took a 1-0 lead in the second when Clare Ronan hit her fifth home run of the season with a leadoff shot to left.

Bates came back with five runs on five hits in the bottom of the second, beginning with Monica Berube’s second homer of the season, a two-run shot to left. After Leah Citrin and Val Beckwith singled and doubled, Jean McIntyre drove Citrin in with an RBI single. Lauren Dobish followed with a two-run double to left, scoring Beckwith and McIntyre.

The Bobcats added three more in the fifth inning. Three Bowdoin errors led to two scores, and Berube capitalized with an RBI double to finish the scoring.

Berube finished with two ghits and three RBIs.

Ronan had three of Bowdoin’s eight hits, while Shavonne Lord and Hillary Smyth had two apiece. Lewiston’s Alison had a single in three at-bats.

Baseball

Trinity 14, Bates 2

LEWISTON – Trinity scored eight runs in the fourth inning, including seven with two outs, to turn a close game into a rout, as the defending NCAA Division III champion Bantams rolled to a 14-2 victory over Bates.

Bantams righthander Jeremiah Bayer allowed one first-inning run to Bates in his seven innings. Bayer (6-0) gave up five hits and no walks while striking out five to earn the win.

Bates (7-11) took a 1-0 lead in the first on Chris Burke’s RBI double down the right-field line.

Trinity (16-3) answered in the third, when the Bantams plated three runs on four hits off of Bates starter Karl Alexander, including an RBI double by Matt Sullivan.

The Bantams broke the game open in the fourth, after loading the bases with one out. The Bobcats got the second out with a fielder’s choice, but Kent Graham drew a bases-loaded walk to make it 4-1, and James Wood followed with a two-run single up the middle.

Trinity loaded the bases again with a walk. A wild pitch made it 7-1, and Joe Markovich singled to right center to score two more. Sam Simons put a final stamp on the damage with a two-run homer to left.

UMF, St. Joe’s split

STANDISH – Saint Joseph’s and Maine-Farmington split a doubleheader in non-conference action Friday at Mahaney Diamond.

Game one starter Kyle Dorr improved to 3-0 for the Monks after tossing six innings and allowing four hits and a run with four strikeouts in the 5-1 opener.

In the nightcap, starter Curtis Orlik was slapped with the loss in his first collegiate start, surrendering six hits and three runs in three innings in UMF’s 4-3 victory. Eric LaBatte had a single and double for St. Joe’s.

Senior Craig Pendleton earned UMF’s first victory of the season in the nightcap. The southpaw allowed seven hits, no walks and two earned runs, while striking out seven in the complete-game effort. Josh Garneau, Connor McNeill, Pat Howell and Steve Hutchinson all recorded hits in the UMF victory.

The victory over the Monks was the first in Beavers’ last eight tries and the second in the last 28 games against Saint Joseph’s.