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16
Winner Amherst AMHER 6-4
12
Framingham St. FRAM 1-9
Winner
Amherst AMHER
6-4
16
Final
12
Framingham St. FRAM
1-9
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Amherst AMHER 0 3 1 0 1 0 6 3 2 16 18 3
Framingham St. FRAM 0 4 0 0 6 0 2 0 0 12 13 5

W: Caron, Adrian (1-0) L: B. Respress (0-1) S: Sampedro, Jack (2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Mammoths rally from down 5 to flummox Framingham State, 16-12

AUBURNDALE, Fla. -- Down by 5 heading into the 7th inning, the Amherst College baseball team scored 11 runs over the final three frames Friday to take down Framingham State, 16-12, at the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex. 

Amherst won its third straight game to improve to 6-4 overall and 4-1 on its spring trip to Florida. The Mammoths conclude that trip with a twinbill Saturday morning against Coe College with the firist game beginning at 9:45 at Northeast Regional Park in Davenport. 

GAME HIGHLIGHTS:

* The Mammoths banged out 18 hits in the win. First-year Justin Orridge went 5 for 5 with a walk. Jack Sampedro went 3 for 6 with three runs scored. Orridge, Jack Boyle and Ben Smith had 3 RBI each. Charlie LaFreniere scored four runs and went 2 for 4. 

* Amherst entered the top of the seventh trailing 10-5 after a the Rams fostered a six-run bottom of the fifth to re-take the lead. Sampedro led off with a single and took third on an error that put LaFreniere on first. Orridge singled up the middle to score Sampedro and make it 10-6. After a wild pitch, Matthew Chen walked to load the bases. With two outs, Aiden Dubetsky hit a grounder which was misplayed into a two-run error. He then stole second to put runners on second and third for Jack Boyle, who promptly lined a two-run single to right that tied the game 10-10. 

* Boyle then stole second and third. After Tyler McCord walked and stole second, a wild pitch allowed Boyle to score with the go-ahead run. 

* Framingham rallied for two in the bottom of the seventh to re-take the lead again at 12-11. Amherst answered with three runs in the top of the eighth. Ryan McIntyre and LaFreniere were hit by pitches to start the frame. A passed ball moved the runners up for Orridge, who grounded a two-run single up the middle for a 13-12 Amherst lead. Orridge took second on an error and Chen reached on another error. 

* Ben Smith then lined an RBI-double down the left-field line to score Orridge with a 14-12 lead. 

* Mammoth southpaw Adrian Caron retired the Rams in order in the bottom of the eighth, striking out the first two batters of the frame. 

* Amherst added two more runs in the top of the ninth to take a 16-12 lead. LaFreniere had an RBI-single and later scored on a balk. 

* Sampedro came on to pitch the bottom of the ninth and retired the side in order. 
 
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