Polar Bears Sweep Bobcats In NESCAC Softball Series

4/4/2026 | Softball | Box Score 1 | Box Score 2

BRUNSWICK, Maine – The Bowdoin softball team earned its first NESCAC sweep with a pair of home victories over Bates on Sunday afternoon.

The Polar Bears are 19-4 with a 5-3 record in NESCAC play. The Bobcats are 8-11 (1-5 NESCAC). Bowdoin won a tight 4-1 game one before pinning a 12-6 loss on Bates in game two.

Game One Highlights

• Bates got on the board in the first inning after Maya Lee hit a leadoff single through the left side and then stole second to be in scoring position. Isabel Bettencourt doubled to right and plated Lee.
• Bowdoin trailed until the fourth inning when Maddie Paschke hit a leadoff homer to left.
• The Polar Bears took the lead in the fifth after an error allowed Elise Siciliano to score. Penelope Fong-Picariello drove in a run with a groundout and Anika Ewert scored on a passed ball.
• Maddie Current pitched all seven innings with five hits allowed and eight strikeouts.
• Ewert, Fong-Picariello, Paschke, Siciliano, and Sammie Wright all had hits.

Game Two Highlights

• Bates put Bowdoin in an early hole with a three-run top of the first. The Polar Bears answered with a matching number in the bottom half of the inning.
• Fong-Picariello and Rosie Panenka both hit RBI singles and Wright had a sacrifice fly.
• The Bobcats took a one-run lead in the following inning, but it was the last time Bowdoin trailed.
• The Polar Bears scored eight runs. Fong-Picariello, Margaret Flannery-Goodman, and Ewert all had RBI singles. Paschke hit a two-run single. Wright hit her second homerun of the season.
• Bates could not dig itself out after the second inning and found singular runs in both the fourth and seventh innings.
• Flannery-Goodman had another RBI in the fifth.
• Kathleen Hester settled in after the first inning and pitched a complete nine-hit game. The junior fanned six batters and caught the final out of the game to ensure the victory.
• Ewert went 3-for-3 at the plate and Fong-Picariello hit 2-for-4.
• Wright paced the team with four RBI.

Up Next

Bowdoin heads to Middlebury next weekend for a Saturday series.