LEWISTON, Maine -- The Bates softball team split a pair of games against NESCAC foe Trinity on Sunday, with the two contests producing very different results.

The Bantams (4-8, 4-4 NESCAC) defeated the Bobcats (2-10, 2-6 NESCAC) 18-1 in game one before Bates turned the tables and won 11-2 over Trinity in game two.

Game One: Trinity 18, Bates 1 (5 innings)

The Bantams scored 10 runs in the first inning and never looked back, defeating the Bobcats 18-1 in game one of Sunday's doubleheader.

With the bases loaded and one out in the first, Trinity's Alex Chambers singled in a pair of runs. Then with two away, the Bantams tallied six straight hits, capped off by a Samantha Witmer two-run home run, making the score 10-0.

Junior Danielle Polirer (Bellmore, N.Y.) entered the game out of the bullpen and shut down the Bantams for the next two innings. But Trinity added eight more runs in the fourth, seven of which were unearned. 

Bates got on the board in the bottom of the fifth. Sophomore Cassidy Musco (Walpole, Mass.) drew a walk to start the frame. Senior Abra Kaplan (Oak Park, Ill.) drew a walk as well. Musco stole third and Kaplan advanced to second when the throw bounced away from the third baseman. 

With runners at second and third and one out, senior Caroline Bass (Newton, Mass.) drove in Musco with a grounder to short. 

The Bantams tallied 18 hits in game one, with Bates recording three hits. Jordan Stephan started and earned the win for Trinity with three shutout innings. 

Michaela Russell, Chambers and Maura Keary paced Trinity with three hits each. Sophomore Lindsey Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.), junior Janell Sato (Honolulu, Hawaii) and junior Aleah Pagan (Orinda, Calif.) all recorded a hit for the Bobcats.

Game Two: Bates 11, Trinity 2 (5 innings)

Senior Payton Buxton tossed a complete game and the Bates softball team rebounded with an 11-2 win over Trinity in game two of Sunday's doubleheader.

Buxton (Middlebury, Vt.) scattered seven hits in five innings pitched, allowing just two runs, striking out four and walking no one. 

The Bobcats grabbed a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first. Bass got the offense going with a bunt single. She stole second and advanced to third on a passed ball. Kim doubled down the right field line, driving in Bass. Then Kim advanced to third on a passed ball and scored on a Musco ground out.

Trinity got a run back in the top of the second thanks to a Chambers triple and a Kennedy Rogers RBI ground out. 

But Bates got to Stephan (2-3) for four more runs in the bottom of the second. First-year Rachel Liazos (Westborough, Mass.) got hit by a pitch to start the frame. Sato singled through the left side and with one away sophomore Kama Boswell (Bellevue, Wash.) bunted the runners over. 

With two down, Bass hit a grounder to second. It only took one bobble for Bass to be safe at first on the error. Liazos scored on the play. Pagan, Kim and Musco followed with back-to-back-to-back singles, plating three more runs.

In the top of the fourth, Trinity cut the Bates lead to 6-2 on a Makayla Boucher single, scoring Chambers who had doubled to start the frame.

Then Bates ran away with the contest in the bottom half of the frame. Boswell led off with a walk and advanced to third on a Bass double. Bates got two runs thanks to a passed ball followed by a Trinity throwing error on back-to-back pitches.

Pagan drew a walk and Kim singled through the left side. Musco drew a walk as well to load the bases. Then Buxton (2-4) helped her own cause at the plate, doubling down the left field line to plate a pair of Bobcats.

Senior Mary Collette (Watertown, Conn.) followed with an RBI single through the left side, completing the scoring for Bates.

Kim finished game two 3-3 with two runs scored, a double and two RBIs. Bass went 2-4 with three runs scored. Musco and Buxton drove in two runs apiece.

Sunday marked Senior Day for the softball team. Before the game the Bobcats honored their five seniors: Bass, Buxton, Collette, Kaplan, and Jevan Sandhu (Plymouth, N.H.).