DAVENPORT, Fla. -- Years from now, hundreds if not thousands of people may claim they were present at Northeast Regional Park on a rainy Friday in a Florida town thousands of miles from Amherst College to witness what may have been the greatest comeback in the history of the Mammoths' baseball existence. 

In reality there were fewer than 100 people associated with Amherst at NEP's Field 3 for the second game of a doubleheader. Parents, alumni and of course, players and coaches all bore witness to a comeback as improbable as the very definition of the word. 

In the end, Ryan McIntyre's two-out, run-scoring double in the bottom of the seventh inning of a seven-inning game drove home Jack Sampedro with the winning run in a 17-16 victory over Worcester State. 

Halfway through the contest, Amherst trailed by 12 runs, 16-4, and their modest four-game win streak was headed to an end. But three runs in the fourth, three more in the sixth and then seven in the seventh stunned the Lancers. 

Coupled with an 11-6 win in game one of Friday's doubleheader, the Mammoths extended their win streak to five games and improved their overall record to 7-2 heading home. They will host Western New England University Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in their scheduled home opener.

GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS:

* The Mammoths were down to their final strike once in the fateful seventh and their final step once as well.  They entered the bottom of the seventh trailing 16-10. Jack McDermott led off with a triple to right-center field. McIntyre followed with a hard shot back up the middle for an RBI-single that made it 16-11. Luke Padian crushed a pitch to virtually the same spot as McDermott, scoring McIntyre from first with an RBI-double that made it 16-12. 

* After a pitching change and an out, Christian Fagnant -- who went 4 for 5 with 4 RBI in the win -- unloaded on a pitch and sent it so far over the right-field fence if he had done it as Fenway Park it would have been over the bullpens. The two-run homer -- his second long ball in as many days, made it 16-14. But after Charlie LaFreniere flew out, the Mammoths had no one on base, two outs, and still trailed by two.

* The next Mammoth up was Tyler McCord and he got down to his -- and the team's -- final strike before lacing a line drive into the left-center field gap for a double. Jack Boyle was next and he was plunked with an 0-1 pitch. The tying runs were on first and second for lead-off hitter Jack Sampedro. But on the first pitch to Sampedro, McCord and Boyle executed a double steal, the throw going to second in an attempt to get Boyle. But the throw sailed into center field, allowing McCord to score and the tying run in Boyle reaching third base.

* What happened next was as dramatic -- and fluky -- as any play could be. Sampedro hit what could best be described as a dying quail -- a short blooper perhaps -- short of second. It looked off the bat as it might be caught, but fell in front of the Lancer second baseman. Sampedro, using every bit of speed he had left, raced to the first-base bag. His foot appeared to hit the bag a split second before the throw hit the first baseman's mitt -- and the umpire called him safe as Boyle scored the tying run. 

* By this time it appeared the baseball gods had made up their minds, as McDermott followed with a liner to short that literally hit the field turf and took a left turn away from the Worcester State fielder and into left field for a single, his second hit of the inning and the 100th hit of his Amherst career. That brought up McIntyre, who had crushed a walk-off three-run homer 24 hours earlier to beat Framingham State 9-6 in the 10th inning. He fouled off two pitches to go down 0-2, but then found to his liking an 0-2 pitch that caught too much of the plate and he sent a laser into the night, the ball colliding with the bottom portion of the outfield fence in center for a game-winning double. 

* The ninth-inning rally made a winner of Kila Kaniho, who after a lead-off walk in the top of the seventh, struck out the side, all on swinging third strikes. It was a significant moment for Kaniho, who had missed his first season because of injury. The Mammoths also received a runless inning of relief from Naaveen Narayanan, who did not allow a hit or walk and fanned one. Trevor Gasgarth had pitched a scoreless top of the fifth for the Mammoths after Worcester State exploded for 10 runs in the top of the fourth to take a 16-4 lead. 

* McIntyre finished 4 for 6 with 3 RBI and 2 runs scored. McCord was 3 for 4 with 2 RBI and a run scored. Amherst finished with 18 hits. 

Game 1: Amherst 11, Worcester 6

* The Mammoths scored six in the second inning and never really looked back. Jack Dove started the second with a single and took second on Charlie LaFreniere's single to right. Ben Smith's single through the left side scored Dove for a 1-0 lead. After a wild pitch, Boyle singled through the left side to score LaFreniere for a 2-0 lead. 

* Boyle stole second, and Sampedro's grounder to short scored the third run. McDermott was hit by a pitch and Boyle then stole third to put runners on the corners. McIntyre followed by crushing a three-run, opposite-field homer to right center for a 6-0 lead. 

* Tristan Kim earned his first win of the season, going the first five frames and giving up four earned runs on nine hits. He did not walk a batter and struck out three. 

* Sampedro was 3 for 4 with a double and a triple. The Mammoths hit three home runs in the game: McIntyre in the first, McDermott and McCord, who hit his first collegiate round tripper.