Women’s Basketball Loses to Tufts in NESCAC Championship Semifinals

Last week, the women’s basketball team traveled to Bowdoin, the site of this year’s NESCAC tournament, for a heated semifinal matchup between the second-seeded Mammoths and the third-seeded Jumbos from Tufts. This was a rematch of last year’s NESCAC championship, which Amherst won. The game was hard fought and incredibly close, featuring 16 lead changes and 10 ties. After more than 39 minutes of action, Amherst had taken the lead, but late heroics by the Jumbos ended their tournament run and a c

Women’s Basketball Ends Perfect Record with Fourth-Quarter Loss

After one of the most dominant stretches in NCAA Division III women’s basketball history, the Amherst women’s basketball team’s 68-game winning streak finally came to an end in a thriller against Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) on Tuesday in Lefrak Gymnasium, to stun the top-ranked team in the nation. The final quarter featured a 17-0 run for ECSU, during which the Mammoths were held scoreless for almost seven minutes. Overall, ECSU outscored the Mammoths 26-8 in the fourth quarter.

Women’s Golf Claims Third at New York University Invitational in Season Finale

The Amherst women’s golf team traveled to Bloomfield, New Jersey this weekend to compete in the New York University (NYU) Fall Invitational at the prestigious Forest Hill Field Club. The Mammoths completed their season with a third-place finish behind tournament champions and archrival Williams tournament host NYU, which finihsed in second. After shooting 330 as a team on Saturday, Amherst sat in third place, 25 strokes behind the leader Williams. The Mammoths shaved 12 strokes off their pr

Amherst Tops Williams in the Mount Holyoke Invitational

The Amherst women’s golf team continued to dominate this weekend, winning the 17-team Mount Holyoke Invitational on Sunday at The Orchards Golf Club in Hadley, Massachusetts. This makes two consecutive victories to open the season for the Mammoths, who won the Ann S. Batchelder Invitational in convincing fashion the previous weekend. The tournament was very competitive, and after Saturday’s opening round, the top-four teams were separated by just nine strokes. Amherst sat in first after combin