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Volleyball Notches Two Straight-Set Wins over Bowdoin and Colby

Volleyball Notches Two Straight-Set Wins over Bowdoin and Colby

In its final weekend of regular season play, the Amherst volleyball team traveled to Maine for matches against NESCAC opponents Bates and Colby. Both matches were straight-set victories for the Mammoths, and the team moved to 20-4 on the year overall and 8-2 in conference play. Thanks to its first

Women’s Cross Country Places Eighth at NESCAC Championship Meet

Competing at the historic Franklin Park cross country course, the Amherst women’s cross country team placed eighth at the annual NESCAC Cross Country Championships this past Saturday, with a team score of 213 points. At 47 points, Middlebury dominated the team race, ending Williams’ three-year win streak. The Ephs

Men’s Soccer Powers Past Bowdoin in NESCAC Quarterfinal Win

Men’s Soccer Powers Past Bowdoin in NESCAC Quarterfinal Win

This past week was likely the best seven-day stretch of the Amherst season, as the Mammoths closed the regular season with a 3-1 win over Trinity before edging past Bowdoin, 1-0, in the quarterfinals of the NESCAC tournament. On Wednesday, Oct. 24, Amherst entered the match against the Bantams with

Men’s Cross Country Claims Second Straight NESCAC Championship

Men’s Cross Country Claims Second Straight NESCAC Championship

After winning their first ever NESCAC title in 2017, the Mammoths defended their conference crown on Saturday to win the championship meet once again. Amherst scored 60 points to Williams’ 86 and Middlebury’s 88, erasing any doubts over the Mammoths’ quality. Prior to the race, Amherst biggest title challengers

Field Hockey Loses to Second Seed Tufts in Tournament Quarterfinal

This past week, the Mammoths fell to both Trinity and Tufts by matching score lines of 2-0 to effectively end the team’s season. The loss to the Bantams sealed Amherst’s fate as the seventh seed in the NESCAC tournament, which led to defeat by a dominant Jumbos squad

Women’s Soccer Triumphs over Hamilton in NESCAC Quarterfinal

Coinciding with the end of the month of October is the onset of the women’s soccer postseason, specifcally the NESCAC tournament. For Amherst, which posted a dominant regular season record of 7-2-1 in conference play, the arrival of playoffs meant a home quarterfinal matchup against sixth-ranked Hamilton. Though Saturday’

The Hot Corner: Ghosts of October

Derek Jeter used to say the ghosts come out in October (or at least that line has been attributed to him). According to legend, Jeter said this to a light-hitting corner infielder named Aaron Boone in the late innings of Game Seven of the 2003 American League Championship Series (ALCS)