HARTFORD, Conn. — After letting a lead go in the first game, the Bates College baseball team was able to hold on in the second game to split a NESCAC doubleheader against Trinity College on Saturday.

Both games finished with 6-5 scores.

The Bantams (7-9) scored two quick runs in the first inning of the opener, but the Bobcats (9-7) rallied to go up 3-2 in the fifth. Bates briefly increased its lead to 5-2 in the top of the sixth before Trinity countered with three runs in the bottom half to tie it.

Tyler Bernstein scored the winning run on a William Sawyer sacrifice fly in the eighth.

Brandon Biggane drove in three runs for Bates, while Jack Brennan, Chris Cimino, Gibby Sullivan and Liam Yardley each collected two of the Bobcats’ 11 hits.

In the second game, Bates plated four runs in the third to go ahead and 4-0 and the Bobcats were able to hold on.

Ben Genser capped the big inning with a two-run single. Genser and Noah Jankowski scored on Sullivan’s two-run double in the fifth that put Bates ahead 6-3. The Bantams scored on a balk and a wild pitch in the bottom of the fifth to draw within 6-5.

Henry Prince matched Genser with two hits for Bates. Diego Sarabia picked up his first pitching win of the season, scattering five hits and five runs in five innings. Micah Sheats secured the save with two shutout innings.

WENTWORTH SWEEPS UMF: The Leopards (14-6) took two non-conference games from the Beavers (4-11) in Boston, Massachusetts.

Wentworth won the first game 4-3 and secured the sweep with a 5-0 shutout.

In the first game, the Beavers and Leopards ended the first inning tied, 2-2, but Wentworth added a run in the fifth inning and the seventh inning to pull out the win.

The three UMaine-Farmington runs were scored by Jameson Bloch and Ryan Sargent in the first inning, on a Nate Coombs walk and Jonny Pruett sac fly, respectively, and Colby Lewis in the second inning on a Sargent RBI single. Sargent also led with two hits.

For the Leopards, Jon Campbell pitched four innings of relief to earn the win.

In the second game, the Leopards scored two runs in the second inning and three runs in the fifth inning to secure the second win.

Matt Marquis and Ryan Sargent were the sole hitters for University of Maine at Farmington.

Lewiston graduate Brodi Farinas pitched six scoreless innings in the win for Wentworth, tossing nine strikeouts and one walk.

MEN’S LACROSSE

TRINITY 13, BATES 8: The Bantams outscored the Bobcats on Saturday at Bates’ Alumni Day in Lewiston, starting the first quarter 4-0 and adding five goals in the second quarter.

Bo Page scored a game-high four goals for Trinity (5-4, 1-3 NESCAC) and Gray Doyle scored the most goals for Bates (3-6, 0-5) with three unassisted markers. Other Bobcats goal-scorers were TJ Underhill (with two), Riley McClure, Alex Horowitz and Wil Masterson.

The Bobcats outscored the Bantams 3-1 in the fourth quarter.

Bates goalie Andrew Toland had 11 saves and Trinity goalie Jordan Opdahl had 14.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

TRINITY 19, BATES 8: The Bantams outscored the Bobcats in the first and second quarters and maintained the lead the remainder of Saturday’s game to pull out the win in Hartford, Connecticut.

Caroline Keating started off the game’s scoring with an unassisted goal for Bates (4-5, 0-4 NESCAC).

Trinity’s (5-3, 2-2) Molly McGuckin led with a game-high four goals. For Bates, Hanna Matthews, Lauren Wong and Keating each scored two goals and Laci Raveis and Grace Cassin scored one goal each.

Bates keeper Avery Lehman had seven saves. For Trinity, Ali Macdougall had three saves.

SOFTBALL
TUFTS SHUTS OUT BATES TWICE: The Jumbos (13-3, 2-0 NESCAC) weren’t in the giving mood as hosts of the Bobcats (2-9, 0-2) in Medford, Massachusetts.

Tufts swept a doubleheader with a pair of shutouts, 9-0 and 8-0.

In the first game, the Jumbos scored three runs each in the first, second and fourth innings.

Josie Steinberg drove in four runs for Tufts, to go along with two hits and two runs scored.

Sky Johnson pitched all five innings of the shortened game for Tufts, striking out nine and allowing just one hit. Grace Householter had the only hit for Bates.

To cap off the sweep, Tufts plated multiple runs in the third, fourth and sixth innings of the second game, in addition to a run in the bottom of the first.

Zariya Anderson, Kennedy Jones and Delaney Rankin each logged a hit for Bates. Michelle Adelman and Rachel Moore each scored a game-high three runs for Tufts.

Delaney Rankin pitched 5 1/3 innings for the Bobcats, with Tufts’ Kaitlyn Perucci ending the game in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI double — her third hit of the game.

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