CHICOPEE, Mass. -- Sophomore Sylvia Liddle scored a team-high 15 points Wednesday night while classmate Anna Tranum and first-year Macie Nugent added 14 points each as the 10th-ranked Amherst College women's basketball team stayed unbeaten with an 85-41 victory over Elms College. 

Amherst improved to 10-0 on the season. The Mammoths take on rival Williams in LeFrak Gymnasium Friday at 7 p.m.  Elms fell to 5-6 on the season. 

GAME HIGHLIGHTS:

* Amherst jumped out to an 8-0 lead and never looked back. Elms cut it to 8-3 before Laura Mendell dropped in a trey from the left elbow. The Blazers got back-to-back buckets to cut the deficit to 11-7, but Amherst would score the final six points of the opening quarter, including an Anna Tranum three-ball with 14 seconds left that made it 17-7. 

* Elms hung around for the first five minutes of the second stanza. Macie Nugent made it 25-13 Mammoths when she drove into the paint from the right side and nailed an eight-foot floater from the lane with 5:52 to go. 

* The Mammoths exploded after that, scoring 23 points over the final 5 minutes after scoring 27 over the first 15 minutes of the game. Senior Abbey Skinner scored six straight points from inside the paint at one point, extending the Mammoths' lead from 40-16 to 46-16. 

* Amherst shot an unheard of and hard-to-grasp 84.2 percent (16 of 19) from the floor in the second quarter. The pace and the ball movement of the Mammoths resulted in 14 of their 16 field goals garnering an assist. Nugent had 8 points in the quarter on 4 for 4 shooting from the floor, while Skinner and Maya Cwalina both scored six on perfect 3 for 3 shooting. The Mammoths led 50-18 at the halftime break. 

* Tranum and Kori Barach opened the second half with lay-ins that made it 54-18 Amherst and saw the Mammoths extend their hot shooting to 13 of 14 shots. 

BY THE NUMBERS:

* Amherst finished shooting 55.1 (38 of 69) percent from the floor while outrebounding Elms 44-20. 

* Cwalina finished with 10 points, 7 rebounds and 4 blocks. Skinner had 6 points, 6 assists and 4 rebounds. Liddle paced the Mammoths with both 15 points and 8 rebounds. Reeya Patel led the team in assists with 7.