AUBURNDALE, Fla. — A five-run second inning proved to be the difference as Bowdoin College topped Lawrence University 9-3 in a nonconference game on Sunday.
Sean Mullane, Brandon Lope, Cody Todesco all had two hits apiece to pace the Polar Bears (5-0). Richard Arms allowed one run over five innings to get the win for Bowdoin.
Kyle Duex gave up 12 hits and seven runs over seven innings and took the loss for Lawrence (1-6).
Freshman Nolan Spencer went 3-for-5 and scored a run for the Vikings, and fellow rookie Andrew Lauber went 2-for-4 and drove in a run.
Lawrence grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Spencer led off the game with a double and later scored on Dan Rothbauer’s ground ball.
Bowdoin then scored five times in the second on six hits with the big blow being Peter Cimini’s two-run double. The Polar Bears made it 7-1 with a pair of runs in the fourth, but the Vikings helped them out with a pair of hit batsmen and a walk.
Lawrence added single runs in the sixth and eighth. Lauber picked up a run-scoring single in the sixth, and Holliday singled and later scored on a wild pitch in the eighth.
Lawrence returns to action on Monday with a nonconference game against St. Olaf College.