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Brunswick, Maine – The Trinity College offense came alive in the final inning of game two to break open a tie baseball game and capture a 6-3 win and cap the Bantams' Saturday sweep of the Bowdoin College Polar Bears after taking the first game 1-0. The Polar Bears fall to 10-16 on the season and 3-5 in NESCAC play after capturing the series opener on Friday afternoon. The Bantams pull to .500 overall with a 12-12 mark, while sporting a 4-5 NESCAC record.  

In game one, both pitchers went all seven innings, with Trinity senior tri-captain righty Sean Meekins (Rockville Centre, N.Y.) earning the shutout win with nine strikeouts and one walk while allowing just three hits. Erik Jacobsen tallied two K's on the mound for Bowdoin with four hits surrendered and no walks. The only scoring of the game in the top of the fourth as Trinity senior tri-captain 1B Bryan Wolfe (La Habra Heights, Calif.) hit a two-out single up the middle, and rookie Tyler Forgione (North Branford, Conn.) followed with a single through the left side, pushing Wolfe into scoring position. Junior C Scott Cullinane (East Greenwich, R.I.) drove home the game's lone run, singling to left for the game-winning RBI.

In the nightcap, Trinity and Bowdoin remained tied, 2-2, through five innings before the Bantams put four runs on the board in the ninth to clinch the series. Freshman RHP Nicholas Fusco (Woodbridge, Conn.) got the start for Trinity, with Harry Ridge taking the mound for Bowdoin, and both pitchers allowed six hits, two runs, and a homer in seven innings of work. Fusco was relieved early in the eighth by sophomore lefty Sam Jordan (Sherborn, Mass.) who recorded the win with three hits and one earned run allowed.  

The Polar Bears struck first in the bottom of the second after loading the bases with no outs. Chad Martin, Cole DiRoberto, and Tom Wells all singled to fill the bases, with Martin scoring off a wild pitch. Trinity escaped the inning, allowing just the one ru, as Fusco tallied a pair of strikeouts and induced a groundout. The Bantams responded quickly with a leadoff double down the leftfield line from senior Adam Moossmann (East Northport, N.Y.). Moossmann advanced to third on a groundout and was driven home by classmate Evan Abraham (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).  Sophomore OF Nick Pezzella (Worcester, Mass.) quickly gave Trinity the lead as he blasted a homer to straightaway center field, but Aaron Rosen evened the score at 2-2 in the bottom half of the inning as he launched a ball over the left field fence. 

The Bantams' bats came alive in the top of the ninth, beginning with a Jonathan Frank (Vernon, Conn.) single up the middle. Wolfe followed with a hit batsman, and Frank advanced to third on a fielder's choice. Moossmann knocked an RBI single through the left side, quickly followed by a Connor Sullivan (Fairfield, Conn.) RBI single to center. Abraham extended the score to 6-2 on a single to left. Bowdoin got one run back in the bottom half of the inning as Wells drove in Chad Martin.