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BASE Jack Boyle WNEU 32724
10
Winner Rensselaer RENSSELA 15-6
6
Amherst AMHERST 7-9
Winner
Rensselaer RENSSELA
15-6
10
Final
6
Amherst AMHERST
7-9
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Rensselaer RENSSELA 6 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 10 10 0
Amherst AMHERST 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 6 11 2

W: D. Chan (1-0) L: Tabet, Matt (1-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

RPI engineers 10-6 win over Mammoths

AMHERST, Mass. -- Down six runs eight batters into the game Wednesday, the Amherst College baseball team climbed back into the contest before ultimately falling to R.P.I. on Memorial Field, 10-6. 

The Mammoths fell to 7-9 ahead of a scheduled three-game set with Tufts this weekend beginning with a single game Friday set to begin at 3:30 p.m. The Engineers improved to 15-6 on the year.

Leo Foust and Jack Sampedro each had three hits in the Mammoths' loss. 

GAME HIGHLIGHTS:

* Amherst trailed 6-0 after a half-inning Wednesday but got one back in its haf of the first when Jack Boyle was hit by a pitch, stole second, took third on a groundout and scored on Sampedro's sacrifice fly.

* Trailing 7-1, the Mammoths crept closer with two runs in the third. Tyler McCord led off with a line single to left and Sampedro followed with a double in the right-center field gap. RBI-groundouts by Ryan McIntyre and Charlie LaFreniere scored the runners to make it 7-3. 

* Down 8-3 heading into the bottom of the fourth, Amherst got one back when Foust laced a one-out double, took third on a wild pitch, and scored on Ben Smith's sacrifice fly to make it an 8-4 game. 

* It was still a four-run game into the bottom of the sixth when walks to Aiden Dubetsky, Boyle and McCord loaded the bases with one out. However, a pop up to first brought up McIntyre, who gave the ball a ride to deep left center where it was caught to end the threat.

* With one out in the bottom of the seventh frame, Justin Orridge grounded a single up the middle and Foust ripped a single down the left-field line. Smith then ripped a shot into left that went for an RBI-single and cut the deficit to 8-5, but a double play ended the inning. 

* In the bottom of the eighth, now looking at a 10-5 deficit, Sampedro singled and McIntyre walked, but the Engineers rolled another inning-ending twin killing.

BY THE NUMBERS:

* Amherst out hit its visitors, 11-10. Foust was 3 for 4 with a double, home run, RBI and two runs scored. Sampedro was 3 for 4 with an RBI and runs scored. 

* Matt Tabet (1-2) took the loss for the Mammoths, going two innings and allowing seven runs, four earned.
 
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