AMHERST, Mass. -- Five different Middlebury Panthers hit home runs Monday afternoon at Memorial Field, accounting for 11 runs, en route to a 16-8 win over the Amherst College baseball team.

The loss snapped a four-game win streak for the Mammoths, who fell to 14-13 overall and 6-3 in divisional play. The Panthers improve to 19-10 overall and 10-2 in the NESCAC West clinching the division's top spot for the upcoming NESCAC Tournament, beginning the weekend of May 3-4 with a best-of-three quarterfinal series. 

Amherst is back in action Wednesday with a 6 p.m. game at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. 

GAME HIGHLIGHTS:

* Middebury took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, but Amherst answered back in its half when senior Jack Sampedro hit a towering home run just inside te let-field foul pole to cut the Mammoths deficit in half. 

* Trailing 3-1, Amherst got a run back in its half of the second when Charlie LaFreniere opened the frame with a single and Aiden Dubetsky roped a two-out, RBI-double into left-center field.

* The Mammoths tied it in the third when Sampedro worked a one-out walk, took second on a wild ptich and third on a fielder's choice before LaFreniere scored him with a two-out, RBI-single. 

* In the top of the fifth, Middlebury erupted for seven runs, including a grand slam from Kyle Mccausland, to take a 10-3 lead. The Mammoths answered with three runs in their half to get back within four at 10-6. The three runs came on only one hit, a single by Ryan McIntyre. It would be as close as the Mammoths would get for the remainder of the contest.

BY THE NUMBERS:

* LaFreniere went 2 for 5 with 2 RBI and 2 runs scored. McIntyre was 2 for 4.

* Walker Dellinger took the loss for the Mammoths, falling to 1-2.