AMHERST, MA. – Though they fought tooth and nail, including making a five-run rally in the bottom of the eighth inning of game 2, the Amherst College softball team lost their final series of the season on Saturday, May 4. In the first game of a double-header against Colby on Alumni Day at the Amherst Softball Field, the Mammoths fell 9-2, and then dropped the second in a heart breaker, 8-5.

With the losses, the Mammoths ended their 2024 season with a 7-28 record, while the Mules moved to 18-18. First-year catcher Emma Nordstrom lead the way with 31 hits and a .326 batting average in her first season, and senior Sadie Pool paced the Mammoths with eight extra-base hits and 14 RBIs on the season.

Game 1: Amherst 2, Colby 9.
 
* A third-inning diving catch from first-year outfielder Olivia Aitkin seemed to spark Mammoth offense; an Annalise Knop ground ball and a single from America Rangel put two on with two outs in the bottom of the third. Nordstrom stepped up and roped a ground ball that the Mules' second baseman could not hang onto, and Knop touched home for a 1-0 lead.
 
* The Mammoths followed that up with a three-up-three-down inning and put multiple runners on base in the bottom half of the fourth but were unable to score another run. That same pattern held in the fifth, before Colby tallied one in the top of the sixth off a base hit up the middle to tie the game at 1-1.
 
* On the Mammoths' next trip to the plate, Nordstrom hit a lead-off single, advanced to third off a Torres Werra bunt and a wild pitch before a two-out base-hit from Sadie Pool drove her in for a 2-1 lead. However, eight runs from the Mules in the final inning, most coming with two outs, were too much to overcome, and the Mammoths fell 9-2 in game 1.
 
* Amherst had seven hits and no errors in the contest. Torres Werra went six innings with six strikeouts and a walk. Knop (3-9) took the loss.
 
Game 2: Amherst 5, Colby 8.
 
* Unlike in game 1, the Mules took a 1-0 lead early, seizing the advantage in the first inning that did not seem threatened until the bottom of the fifth. Two straight walks by the Mules' pitcher put multiple runners on, and a wild pitch put both in scoring position. While on the Mammoths' first attempt, the runner was gunned down at home, and they could not cash in on the second either – after a two-out walk loaded the bases for Nordstrom, she flew out deep to left to end the inning.
 
* With Amherst's best threat to tie the game thwarted, Colby pulled away in the sixth, scoring four runs in the inning, and scored two more in the seventh to seemingly shut the door on the Mammoths.
 
* However, they would not go gently into that good night. In the bottom of the seventh, two one-out walks drawn by Dylan Briggs and Kong got the rally started. From there, America Rangel singled before Aitkin did the same to score the Mammoths' first run. Nordstrom capitalized on her second shot at a bases-load situation, knocking an RBI-single to short before Randi Finkelstein roped a long double to left-center to score two and make it 8-4. After another walk reloaded the bases, Amadis Castro hit a two-out single to drive in Amherst's fifth of the game. However, Colby got the out they needed on the Mammoths' next at bat, and the game ended 8-5 in favor of the Mules.
 
* Finkelstein paced Amherst offensively in game 2, going 2-4 with two RBIs and a double.