Softball Hands Tufts First Conference Loss of the Season

4/3/2026 | Softball | Box Score 1 | Box Score 2

BRUNSWICK, Maine – The Bowdoin softball team handed Tufts its first conference loss of the season in a 9-1 five-inning game to close out the series on Friday night.

The Polar Bears are 17-4 (3-3 NESCAC) after dropping game one by a 10-2 margin. The Jumbos are 16-4 (5-1 NESCAC).

Game One Highlights

• Bowdoin snuck a run home in the first inning as Maddie Paschke put the ball in play to third and a muffed throw allowed Paschke to remain on base and Anika Ewert to score.
• Lauryn Horita gave Tufts a 4-1 lead in the third with one swing of the bat, hitting a 225 foot homer over the fence in right center.
• Tufts added two more runs in the fourth.
• Bowdoin hung around with a long foul popout by Elise Siciliano down the right field line that allowed Margaret Flannery-Goodman to score.
• Tufts scored four unanswered runs to finish the game off in six innings.
• Ewert, Paschke, Flannery-Goodman, Chloe Garcia, and Sammie Wright all had hits.
• Maddie Current suffered the loss in the circle with 3.1 innings of work and six earned runs with three strikeouts.

Game Two Highlights

• Bowdoin’s bats came alive in game two and patient at-bats produced eight total walks in the game.
• Paschke got Bowdoin started with an RBI single through the right side in the first inning and Flannery-Goodman singled to center in the second to plate two more runs.
• The Jumbos made it 3-1 with an RBI single in the top of the third.
• Bowdoin answered in the bottom half of the inning. Penelope Fong-Picariello hit a two-run single to center and the initiated a double steal that allowed Ewert to score. Paschke added another RBI single to cap the inning’s scoring.
• The Polar Bears were able to walk it off in the fifth as Flannery-Goodman hit a bases-loaded ball that allowed Kaitlyn Fado to score and Paschke followed up with a similar play to make it 9-1.
• Sophia Hahn pitched four innings and allowed only one run off ten hits with a pair of K’s.
• Kathleen Hester entered the game with a bases-loaded no out situation and retired the side without allowing a hit or run.
• Fong-Picariello and Paschke both had a pair of hits. Ewert scored four runs.

Up Next

Bowdoin hosts Bates at noon on Saturday.