Orono, Maine - The Trinity College Bantam baseball team rapped out 22 runs and 27 hits en route to a 6/16-1/8 doubleheader sweep of the Bowdoin College Polar Bears this afternoon.  The Bantams, ranked No. 4 in the nation, swept the three-game, New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) East Division series from the Polar Bears and improve to 12-2 overall and 3-0 in the NESCAC.  Bowdoin drops to 10-11 overall and 0-3 in the league.

The Bantams chased Bowdoin starter Ben Higgins after 1.2 innings, taking a 3-0 lead. The Polar Bears cut the lead to 3-1 when Matt Ruane came around to score on a Trinity error in the third, but Bantam freshman starter James Ramsay (Belmont, Mass.) shut down Bowdoin from there, going seven innings and scattering seven hits while striking out six in the victory. Matt Sullivan (North Reading, Mass.) and Alex Rokicki (Truro, Mass.) had a pair of hits apiece for Trinity while Reid Auger, Jason Koperniak and Adam Marquit had two hits each for the Polar Bears.

An offensive outburst by both teams resulted in a back-and-forth affair in the nightcap. Bowdoin held a 4-2 lead after scoring a pair of runs in the second frame courtesy of a Dan Hicks solo home run and an RBI single from Brett Gorman. The Bantams responded with three in the third as Sean Killeen (Greenfield, Mass.) ripped a solo homer of his own and consecutive doubles by Ryan Piacentini (Portland, Maine) and Adam Koris (Milton, Mass.). Trinity put the game out of reach with a six-run seventh inning as James Wood (Windham, N.H.) and Koris delivered run-scoring doubles to spark the rally. Conor O'Sullivan-Pierce (Cambridge, Mass.) earned the win with five innings of relief for Trinity, allowing three runs. Tim Welch took the loss in relief for Bowdoin. Killeen led all batters with a four-hit day including three runs scored and four RBI.

Game 1 box score

Game 2 box score