WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. --
Yoon Chae threw five shutout innings,
Jack Boyle reached base four times and scored three runs and the Amherst College baseball team took advantage of six Williams College errors to salvage a split of its twinbill with their rivals via a 10-4 victory in the nightcap at the Ephs' Bobby Coombs Field Sunday.
The game two win allowed Amherst to take the series, two games to one. The Mammoths improved to 10-12 overall and 3-2 in divisional play, while Williams moved to 11-8 overall and 4-2 in NESCAC West action. Amherst dropped Sunday's first game by a 6-3 score.
Game 2: Amherst 10, Williams 4
* Amherst jumped out to a 7-0 lead after three innings of the nightcap, scoring four runs in the first.
* With two outs and nobody on,
Jack Sampedro worked a walk. He stole second and went to third on a throwing error.
Tyler McCord brought him home with a single up the middle.
Charlie LaFreniere worked a walk.
Ryan McIntyre reached by beating out a slow roller to short and when the throw went awry, McCord scored the second run of the inning.
Leo Foust then reached on a fielding error that allowed both LaFreniere and McIntyre to score.
* In the Amherst second, Boyle led off with a long double to center and took third when
Jack McDermott laced a single through the right side of the infield. McCord's sacrifice fly scored Boyle for a 5-0 lead.
* The Mammoths made it 7-0 wit two runs in the top of the third. After one out,
Aiden Dubetsky and Boyle drew back-to-back walks. Dubetsky took second on a flyout, giving the space for Boyle to steal second. With two outs, Sampedro ripped a two-run single to score both runners.
* In the meantime Chae was dancing in and out of trouble. He went five innings and allowed just two hits while walking five Ephs and striking out one. He walked te bases loaded in the first, but induced an inning-ending flyout to right to strand three runners. After a 1-2-3 second, Chae had runners on second and third with two outs in the third, but got a pop up to first to quell the threat.
* Williams loaded the bases with two outs in its half of the fourth as well, but Chae induced a grounder to second to end the uprising. All in all, he stranded nine baserunners over his five shutout frames.
* Amherst made it 8-0 in the top of the fifth when Dubetsky walked and eventually scored on a wild pitch.
* Leading 8-2, the Mammoths added two more in the top of the ninth on RBI-singles by LaFreniere and Sampedro.
BY THE NUMBERS:
* Sampedro finished 2 for 4 with 3 RBIs. McCord went 1 for 4 with 2 RBIs. Boyle was 1 for 3 with 3 walks and 3 runs scored. McIntyre was 2 for 5.
Game 1: Williams 6, Amherst 3 (7 Inn.)
* The Ephs snapped a 14-game losing streak to Amherst with three runs in the first and three in the third, taking advantage of two key Mammoth errors in the process. Williams' hurler Owen McHugh limited Amherst to four hits and one run over six frames, walking three and striking out five.
* Trailing 6-0, Amherst scored once in the sixth when McDermott and Sampedro opened the inning with singles. With two outs, McIntyre laced an RBI-single to left, but trailing runner Sampedro was out at home to end the inning.
* In the top of the seventh,
Leo Foust led off with a single and
J.J. Grimes doubled him home to make it 6-2. Grimes scored on a Boyle groundout but the rally fizzled.
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E.J. Nevills took the loss. He allowed nine hits and one walk while fanning four over five innings of work. Of the six runs he was charged with, none were earned.
BY THE NUMBERS:
* Grimes had 2 of the Mammoths 6 hits, going 2 for 3 with an RBI and run scored.
