Senior Christian Olivieri (Hull, Mass.) caught three passes for 109 yards and a touchdown in the Bates football team's 25-24 win over Bowdoin on Saturday.
With Bates down 10-0, the Bobcats broke up the punting battle on their second possession of the third quarter, when Brendan Costa found Olivieri down the left sideline with a bomb that traveled 55 yards in the air. Olivieri outleaped his defender to catch the ball at the 15 and ran it in.Â
Late in the fourth quarter, with Bates trailng 24-19, Costa found Olivieri with a 50-yard bomb to Olivieri down the right sideline. The play gave Costa Bates' record for passing yards in a season, as he passed Hugo Colasante's former mark of 1,636 from 1977. It also set up the game-winning touchdown pass to Derek Marino.
