Mammoths topple Trinity, 16-6

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.