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Baseball Splits Doubleheader with Bowdoin by 2-1 scores at RussMatt Invitational

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 LAKELAND, Fla.--Western New England and Bowdoin traded 2-1 wins on Saturday in a non-conference doubleheader at Lake Bonny Park on the Golden Bears' second day of the 2014 RussMatt Central Florida Baseball Invitational. Western New England now stands at 2-3 overall and the Polar Bears are 6-1 on the season.

In Game One, senior Taylor Searles broke a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the sixth inning with a single to score junior Matt Anziano from second base for the game-winning run.

Sophomore Chris Casey, Searles and Anziano had two hits apiece to lead the Golden Bears offense.

Junior Trevor Breton earned the complete-game win (2-0), getting nine strikeouts and working around five walks, a hitbatsmen and four hits.

In the second game, Searles had a run batted in on a fourth-inning single to cut the deficit to 2-1.

Junior Steve Buckley had a double while Anziano and Casey had singles to help account for WNE's four hits.

Senior pitcher Brendan Nugent struck out seven while going the distance, but was the hard-luck loser after Bowdoin was staked to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the third on an error that led to an unearned run and two hits.

Western New England continues the Invitational at 9:30 a.m. Sunday against UMass-Dartmouth.

More details to come later and boxscores will be posted when they become available.
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