Field hockey shuts out Bantams, massacres Pioneers

With a 1-0 win on Saturday at Hitchcock Field, the site of a season-ending 2-1 overtime loss to Williams College, Amherst did away with the specter of that 5-8, non-postseason campaign. With a resounding, 5-1 win at Pioneer Valley foe Smith College last night, the Jeffs truly erased any nostalgia for the departed class of 2005. It’s a new team and a new season, and any questions Amherst fans had about a team with 17 sophomore and first-year members and just three seniors have fallen by the ways