Rafferty improved to 10-0, scattering seven hits over nine innings while striking out 13 .
Van Zant (5-3) surrendered a pair of runs on five hits and fanned six batters.
St. Joseph’s (38-5) will play Trinity in the nightcap today, while Bowdoin (25-19) draws the University of Southern Maine in an elimination contest at 1:15 p.m.
With a pair of runners in scoring position in the fifth inning and one out, Dan Achorn reached on a fielder’s choice to deliver one RBI, and aggressive base running by the Monks allowed a second run to score on the play for a 2-0 lead.
Bowdoin turned up the defense to keep the Monks off the scoreboard the rest of the way. Tim McGarry made a spectacular catch as he fell back onto the warning track to rob Mike Pratt, and Polar Bear outfielder Beau Breton fired a strike to the plate to retired a St. Joseph’s base runner in the eighth.
Bowdoin’s Dan Findley singled twice.
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