Sports

The Amherst Mammoths opened their season in a promising fashion at home Thursday against the Mount Holyoke Lyons. The Mammoths wasted no time and just seven minutes into the game, Natalie Hobbs ’22 fed senior captain Megan Shea a beautiful pass through two defenders. Shea rifled a shot past the

Facing strong competition from Williams and Wesleyan, the Amherst women’s cross country team placed third at the annual Little Three Championships, scoring 54 points as a team. Tallying a mere 33 points, Williams defeated Wesleyan (36 points) in a hard-fought battle. Entering the meet, Williams ranked third in the

Going into the 2017 cross country season, the Williams men’s cross country team had held a 29-year winning streak at the Little Three Championships meet. However, the 2017 iteration of the Mammoths was the best in school history, and they defeated the Ephs at Little Threes, won its first

Amherst women’s soccer will return to Hitchcock Field this fall in the hopes of rebounding from last year’s disappointing season and returning to the highs of 2016, when the team won the NESCAC title and made a run in the NCAA tournament. In 2017, the Mammoths finished with

The Amherst women’s volleyball team returns to campus this fall hoping that a strong core of returning starters will be able to build on last year’s solid season. Captains Hayes Honea ’19 and Lauren Reppert ’19 both believe that it will take a renewed sense of team focus