LEESBURG, Fla.

The Bowdoin softball team picked up its first win of the season in a 10-2 victory against Endicott on Thursday morning before falling 8-4 to Arcadia.

The Polar Bears are 1-3 after two days of play in Florida. The Gulls sit at 4- 3, while Arcadia is 6-2.

Every run in the first game was unearned, as the teams combined for 10 fielding errors. Bowdoin took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first off a sacrifice fly to right off the bat of Natalie Edwards. Edwards pushed the Polar Bears second run of the day across the plate with a single to right in the third. Caroline Rice tagged an RBI single down the left field line in the top of the fifth and Claire McCarthy drove in two more off a ground-rule double to right center.

The Polar Bears exploded for a five-run sixth inning, going up 10-0. Ali Miller and Rice each drove in a run, with Miller chopping a shot to shortstop and Rice singling up the middle. Samantha Valdivia singled down the right field line and earned a pair of RBI while allowing McCarthy to score on a throwing error.

The Gulls spoiled the shutout with a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth. Julia McNeill doubled to right center to record an RBI and later scored off a single to center by Jamie Hopgood.

Rice, Edwards, McCarthy, and Valdivia all drove in a pair of runs. Emily Griffin earned the win in the circle for the Polar Bears, going six innings while allowing four hits and two runs. The senior recorded five strikeouts and three walks. Griffin went 2-for-4 at the plate and scored two runs.

Arcadia jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning of game two as Mary Pat Murray knocked a three-run homer to left center. The Knights added four more runs in the second to extend their lead.

Griffin put the Polar Bears on the board with a two-run single to right in the bottom of the second and drove in another run in the fourth. Jordan Gowdy singled to right and scored Griffin to account for Bowdoin’s final run.

Arcadia capped the game with a sacrifice fly to left in the sixth for an 8-4 win. Samantha Roy suffered the loss in the circle for Bowdoin after surrendering three hits and seven runs. Allison Rutz pitched the final five innings and allowed one hit, run, and walk with six strikeouts.

Baseball

LEESBURG, Fla. — The Bowdoin baseball team swept Gordon College in a pair of Thursday afternoon games, winning the opener by a 4-1 margin before earning the 5-2 game two victory.

The Polar Bears climbed to .500 (3-3) with the wins. Gordon dropped to 3-5 following the two-game setback.

Bowdoin jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first of the game one. Evann Dumont- LaPointe tagged an RBI double to left that drove in Nick Sadler to put the Polar Bears ahead. Sawyer Billings drove in Jack Wilhoite in the following inning off another double to left. Colby Joncas capped Bowdoin’s early scoring with a two-run single to right center that allowed Dumont-LaPointe and Brandon Lopez to score.

Gordon spoiled the shutout as a seventh inning balk allowed Addison Tarr to come home. Connor Lee earned his first career win on the mound for Bowdoin, allowing four hits with four strikeouts and no runs.

James Speer threw the final inning and allowed one run. Dumont-LaPointe, Joncas, and Billings paced the Polar Bears by going 2-for-3 at the plate. Cody Todesco had a pair of stolen bases.

Gordon broke through first in game two, going up 1-0 in the bottom of the second off an RBI groundout by Christian Hodge.

The Polar Bears took their first lead of the game in the following inning as Sean Mullaney recorded an RBI groundout. Nick Sadler advanced to third on Mullaney’s ball and eventually scored on a wild pitch. Bowdoin doubled its run tally in the fifth. Lopez doubled to right center, scoring Mullaney, and Dumont-LaPointe drove in Lopez during the following at-bat. Lopez drove in another run in the final inning off his second double of the day.

Gordon mustered one final run in the bottom of the seventh, but could not complete the rally.

Colby Lewis earned his first career win on the mound after five innings of work. Lewis recorded three hits, as many strikeouts, and two walks. Connor Rooney and Wilhoite each pitched an inning in relief. Lopez was 2-for-4 at the plate with two doubles, two RBI, and a stolen base.

The Polar Bears next face Babson at 1:30 p.m. for a Saturday doubleheader in Auburndale, Florida.

Men’s lacrosse

DAVENPORT, Fla. — The Bowdoin College men’s lacrosse team fell to fourth-ranked Ithaca College in a neutral site match played in Florida on Wednesday afternoon, 17-7.

The 19th-ranked Polar Bears, who were playing their just their second game of the season and first since March 5, fell to 0-2 this season. The Bombers improved to 5-0 with the victory.

Like in its season-opener at Amherst, the Polar Bears found themselves in an early hole and couldn’t recover, trailing 7-1 after just one quarter of play. The Bombers built up a 13-1 edge at intermission before Bowdoin rallied to score six goals in the second half to cut the final margin to ten goals.

Peter Mumford was peppered in net and made 16 saves in the loss. Brett Kujala led Bowdoin with three goals while Daniel Buckman had two. Shawn Daly had a pair of assists for the Polar Bears while first-year Jake Crossman notched his first career goal. First-year Pat Broughton saw his first significant time on the face-off dot this spring and won the majority of the draws in the second half for the Polar Bears.