The Amherst baseball team played a total of five games this past week, winning three and losing two. They split non-league play 1-1 and took the series against fellow NESCAC team Middlebury, 2-1. All games were away last week as Amherst continued to impress on the road.
Fresh off of two straight road victories against conference opponents and a move to No. 5 in the nation, the Amherst women’s tennis team returned home last weekend to face off against Little Three rivals Williams and Wesleyan. Saturday’s action saw Amherst drop a heartbreaking, 6-3 contest against Williams, the second-ranked team in the nation, before rallying back to defeat the No. 8 Cardinals, 6-3, on Sunday.
The Amherst College women’s track and field team placed sixth overall at the eight-team UMass-Amherst Minuteman Invitational last Saturday afternoon.
Senior Victoria Hensley led Amherst on the day, sprinting to a fourth-place finish in the 400-meter run with a time of 59.22.
In the mid-distance events, Leonie Rauls ’18 ran the 1,500-meter run in a time of 4:54.31 to finish in eleventh place.
The Amherst men’s lacrosse team experienced another dramatic week of NESCAC play. They began their week with an important win against Connecticut College last Tuesday.
The Camels scored their first and only goal of the starting quarter off of an assisted goal. Quinn Moroney ’16 answered back with monstrous six assists to put the purple and white up 6-1.
The women’s lacrosse team continued its hot streak on Senior Day this past Saturday, April 16. A thrilling 7-6 triumph over Tufts marked the purple and white’s fourth consecutive win.
Hanna Krueger ’17 opened up the scoring with an unassisted goal less than five minutes into the first half. Tufts’ Caroline Ross provided the equalizer soon after. Rachel Passarelli ’16 netted the man-up goal less than a minute after Ross. The game remained tight with Kate Wyeth ’17 notching Amherst’s third and final goal of the half.
The Amherst women’s golf team found redemption this past weekend against rival Williams in the Jack Leaman Invitational at Hickory Ridge Golf Club. Finishing the tournament with a total score of 637, Amherst claimed first place, beating out the Ephs by a solid 18 strokes.
Having finished second behind Williams the weekend before in the Vassar College Invitational, the purple and white made a strong case for themselves as the best team in the NESCAC with this definitive win.
The Amherst College men’s tennis team went 2-1 this week, taking down Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Friday before winning and losing against Springfield College and Wesleyan, respectively, during their double header on Sunday.
The No. 14 purple and white started the week with a home win against MIT (7-4), beating the Beavers 6-3 in Friday’s non-conference matchup.
