The CBB teams started their 1991 seasons off with a win, a loss, and a tie highlighting Maine’s small college football action on Saturday.

Bowdoin College of Brunswick defeated Middlebury 27-22, Trinity College defeated Colby College of Waterville 10-6, and Bates College and Amherst College tied 26-26.

Bowdoin 27, Middlebury 22

At Middlebury, Vt., Chris Good threw his third touchdown pass to Peter Nye with 35 seconds left to give Bowdoin a 27-22 victory over Middlebury in the opener for both teams.

Middlebury, playing before a home crowd, had taken a 22-21 lead with 1:29 remaining when Eric Sevigney ran in from one yard. But a 2-point conversion failed.

Bowdoin led twice on an 80-yard pass play to Tom Muldoon to make the score 14-7 in the third. Good put Bowdoin ahead again with a 10-yard scoring pass to Mike Ricard in the fourth. His final 11-yard pass won the game.

Bowdoin 0 7 7 13-27 Middlebury 7 0 3 12-22

M – Dyson 7 run (Caron kick)

B – LaPlaca 1 run (Carenzo kick)

B – Muldoon 80 pass from Good (Carenza kick)

M – FG Carton 29

M – Whitcomb 64 pass from Dyson (kick failed)

B – Ricard 10 pass from Good (Carenza kick)

M – Savigny 1 run (pass failed)

B – Nye 11 pass from Good (pass failed)

Trinity 10, Colby 6

At Hartford, Conn., James Lane passed for 183 yards and a touchdown and Ted O’Connor kicked a 31-yard field goal as Trinity beat Colby 10-6.

Lane also had an 8-yard touchdown pass to Joe Brockmire called back because of illegal motion in the first quarter.

Colby scored in the third quarter when Rob Ward hit Steve Hatch with a 41-yard scoring pass.

Colby 0 0 6 0 – 6 Trinity 3 7 0 0 – 10

T – FG O’Connor 31

T – Mullaney 17 pass from Lane (O’Connor kick)

C – Hatch 41 pass from Ward (kick blocked)

Bates, Amherst tie

In Lewiston, Bates led by as much as 26-11 but had to settle for a tie against Amherst.

Matt Sawyer completed 24 of 42 passes for 273 yards and two touchdowns as Amherst came from behind for a 26-26 tie in the season opener.

Sawyer’s 9-yard pass to John Fitzgibbons and Peter Lewis’s point-after kick tied the game in the third quarter. Neither team was able to break the stalemate in the fourth quarter.

Jay Yuskis had a game-high 160 yards on 28 carries for Bates, including a 51-yard touchdown run. Steve Bucci threw touchdown passes of 71 and 35 yards to Chris Plante.

Amherst 0 11 15 0 – 26 Bates 6 14 6 0 – 26

B – Plante 2 pass from Bucci (kick failed)

A – Lewis 27 field goal

B – Yuskis 51 run (Michaeles kick)

B – Plante 73 pass from Bucci (Michaeles kick)

A – McGowan 8 pass from Sawyer (Fitzgibbons pass from Sawyer)

B – Plante 35 pass from Bucci (kick failed)

A – Capone 1 rush (Capone rush)

A – Fitzgibbons 9 rush from Sawyer (Lewis kick)