WALTHAM, Mass. -- The Amherst College baseball team saw its recent losing skid extend to three games Saturday with 8-0 and 7-4 to ther Judges of Brandeis.
The Mammoths fell to 4-5 overall. They are back at home Tuesday at 4 p.m. for a scheduled contest against M.I.T. Brandeis improved to 9-2 by running its win streak to eight.
GAME 1
* Amherst starter
Nick Giattino held the Judges hitless through three innings, but Brandeis struck for three runs in the fourth and two more in the fifth to pull away. Judges' senior Marc Maestri tossed the team's second shutout of the week. Making just his second collegiate start, Maestri threw a complete-game eight-hitter. He struck out seven Mammoths and did not walk a batter, throwing 79 pitches, 58 of them for strikes. Maestri allowed just one Amherst runner past second base.
* The Mammoths had eight hits.
Jack Dove and
Jackson Reydel led the way, each going 2 for 3.
* Giattino took the loss, allowing seven runs, all earned, through five innings of work.
Charlie Estes through an inning of relief for Amerst.
GAME 2
* Reydel stayed red-hot in this game, going 2 for 3 with 2 home runs and 3 RBIs in the defeat. Amherst took a 3-0 lead in the top of the fourth when
Luke Padian's sacrifice fly scored
Ryan McIntyre with the game's first run. Reydel followed with a two-run homer, his first, for the 3-0 lead.
* Mammoth starter
Sachin Nambiar was on point through four innings, allowing just one run. But Brandeis knocked him out in the fifth, scoring three times to take a 4-3 lead.
* Amherst tied the game in the sixth when Reydel smacked a solo home run to center field.
* The Judges touched Amherst reliever
Tyson Luna for three runs in their half of the sixth. A two-0run homer by Mike Khoury was the big blow.
* The Mammoths had seven hits. McIntyre finished 2 for 4 with a run scored.
