CLERMONT, Fla. -- The Amherst College softball team went out swinging Saturday, pounding out 27 hits in two games en route to a 6-5 win over Union College and a 12-1, 5-inn. mercy-rule win over Carleton College.
The sweep allowed the Mammoths to head home with a 10-2 record after six days in Florida. They will open the New England portion of their schedule Wednesday at WPI with a doubleheader beginning at 3:30 p.m.
SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS:
* The Mammoths trailed Union 3-0 heading into the top of the fourth, but scored a run in the fourth, two in the fifth, and three in the sixth to build a 6-4 lead. There were some key pinch-hit in the sixth, including a tie-breaking two-run double that made it 6-4.
Abby Moravek earned the win, going the first five innings and giving up four runs on four hits and four walks while striking out eight. She is 3-0 on the season. Classmate
Dylan Briggs finished up, earning her first save by allowing a single run over two innings on one hit and two walks. She fanned two.
* In the Carleton game, Amherst took a 1-0 lead in the first when
Megan Taketa led off with a single and stole second.
Sadie Pool came through with two outs, lining an RBI-single to score Taketa.
* The Mammoths blew the game open with a seven-run third.
Rachel Lovejoy cracked a two-run double that scored Maravek, who reached on an error, and Taketa, who singled. After Lovejoy was thrown out trying to steal third for the first out,
Autumn Lee singled and Pool reached on an error. That brought up senior
Jess Butler, who had ripped two three-run homers in a game Friday. She did it again, crushing another three-run dinger to left that made it 6-0.
* That made a winner out of
Dani Torres Werra, who went three innings and allowed one hit and one walk while fanning three.
Audrey Orlowski finished up, allowing a single run on one hit and three walks while striking out one.
* The Mammoths had 12 hits. Taketa was 3 for 3 with two runs scored. Moravek was 2 for 3 with an RBI and runs scored. Lee was 2 for 4 with two runs scored.
