HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Amherst College baseball team banged out 10 hits and took advantage of 17 walks from Trinity College's hurlers Tuesday night en route to a 16-4 win over the Bantams at Murren Family Field at DiBenedetto Stadium. 

Amherst first-year Zander Carnahan reached based five times in the win, going 2 for 3 with three walks and scoring five runs. Tyler McCord was 2 for 6 with 3 RBIs and Charlie LaFreniere crushed a two-run home run in the victory.

The Mammoths improved to 20-9 on the season while Trinity slipped to 21-8. Amherst is back in action Friday when it hosts Hamilton in the first game of a weekend three-game series at 4 p.m. on Memorial Field. 

GAME HIGHLIGHTS:

* Amherst jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first. With two outs and no one on base, McCord was hit by a pitch. LaFreniere followed and launched a deep fly to left field that cleared the fence for a two-run home run, is second of the season, and a 2-0 Amherst lead. Carnahan then walked and stole second before two walks loaded the bases. Ben Smith then got plunked by another offering to force home Carnahan for the three-run lead. 

* Smith's sacrifice fly in the third made it a 4-2 Amherst lead. The Mammoths added another in the fourth when Jackson Boyer walked, stole second and scored on McCord's RBI-single. 

* Amherst broke open the game with a six-run top of the sixth which increased its lead to 11-4. McCord had a two-run single that gave Amherst a 7-4 lead. Aiden Dubetsky, Smith and Carson Ames all drew bases-loaded walks to force in runs. Boyer added an RBI-single on his second at-bat of the inning. 

* Liam Lennon got the start for Amherst and went the first three innings, allowing two runs. Weslley De Oliveira Jr. went the next tree and allowed no earned runs. e picked up the win, improving to 3-0 on the season. Matt Tabet and Walker Dellinger each threw a scoreless frame of relief.