AUBURNDALE, Fla.
-- The Amherst baseball team scored 19 runs in 13 innings Tuesday, posting a 11-5, 8-4 sweep of St. Lawrence University at Lake Myrtle Park.
The wins upped the Mammoths record to 4-2 on the season, while the Saints conclude their visit to the Sunshine State with a 5-5- mark.
Amherst has Wednesday off, but gets back to the diamond Thursday with a 3 p.m. Commonwealth State showdown with Framingham State.Â
Senior
Luke Padian went 5 for 9 in the sweep, surpassing the 100-hit mark for his career at Amherst.Â
Game 1:
Amherst 11,
St.
Lawrence 5
* The Mammoths took an early 2-0 lead in the top of the second with clutch two-out RBI-singles from
Jack Boyle and
Jack Sampedro.
* A four-run third would give Amherst a 6-1 lead they would not relinquish.
Jack McDermott ignited the rally with a single, taking second on a wild pitch and third on a passed ball.
Ryan McIntyre beat out a grounder to short for an RBI-single and
Luke Padian -- who led Amherst with 5 hits in the twinbill -- laced a single to left. Senior
Jack Dove met a new Saint pitcher with a crushing blow over the left-field fence for a three-run homer -- his second home run of the Florida trip -- that gave Amherst that 6-1 lead.Â
* The Saints clawed back to within 7-5. Amherst, which scored in the final six innings it batted, scored four runs over the final three frames to pull away. In the top of the fifth, a bases-loaded walk to McDermott produced a run. In the top of the sixth, Padian led off with a Ruthian blast to right center that hit the fence as he settled for a triple. Dove scored him with a sacrifice fly. In the seventh, McDermott cracked an RBI-double into the gap in left-center field before scoring the final run on an error.
* In the meantime,
Christian Pedro had taken over the game from the mound, silencing the Saints' bats with a dominant relief appearance. He did not allow a hit over the final three frames, walked just one, did not hit a batter, and struck out four St. Lawrence batters to earn his first victory of the season.Â
Game 2: Amherst 8 , St.
Lawrence 4
* A six-run first inning gave first-year hurler
Matt Tabet a lot of room to breathe in his collegiate debut. He picked up the victory, going the first 5 1/3 and allowing 10 hits and three earned runs. Tabet did not walk a batter over his stint and struck out four to go to 1-0 on the season.Â
* His teammates produced a six-run first inning. Boyle and McDermott drew walks to start and McIntyre sent a frozen rope into the right-center field gap and used his speed to create a two-run triple. He scored on a passed ball. Padian and Dove got things going again with back-to-back singles before
Christian Fagnant scored Padian with a groundout. Charlie LaFrenier singled through the left side of the infield and stole second, moving to third on a wild pitch as Dove scored.
Tyler McCord capped the frame by scoring LaFrenier with a single back up the middle for a 6-1 lead.Â
* Tabet allowed just a single run in the middle four innings of the game and so Amherst led 6-2 heading to the bottom of the fifth. Dove led off with a double, took third on an error and scored on a wild pitch. Fagnant, who reached on an error, came around on a wild pitch also to give the Mammoths an 8-2 lead.Â
* St. Lawrence countered with two in the sixth, but
Tyson Luna came on in relief of Tabet, induced a ket double play to end the top of the sixth, then worked around a single walk in the seventh to close out the contest. The lefty went 1 2/3 without allowing a hit, walking one and striking out one.Â