HARTFORD, Conn. - The Trinity College Bantams handed the visiting Amherst College Mammoths a 49-7 loss in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) football action this afternoon on Jessee/Miller Field at Tansill Muldoon Stadium.  The Bantams improve to 7-1 and remain one game behind Williams in the conference standings with one week left.  Amherst drops to 5-3.  Trinity plays at Wesleyan next week and Amherst hosts Williams.

Trinity dominated the game from start to finish, totaling 472 yards of total offense and yielding just 112.  Senior captain WR DeVante Reid (London, England) scored the first of his three touchdowns less than five minutes into the game on a nine-yard pass from junior QB Spencer Fetter (Winter Park, Fla.).  The Bantams scored twice more in the opening stanza, once on a three-yard run by sophomore William Kirby (Darien, Conn.) and again on a 45-yard pass from Fetter to Reid.

Fetter threw two touchdown tosses of three yards apiece in the second quarter, one to senior TE Thomas Walsh (Pelham, N.Y.) and the other to senior captain WR Jonathan Girard (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), to give the Bantams a 35-0 lead at the half. Reid scored on a four-yard shovel pass in the third quarter, and Fetter found Walsh again, this time from 28 yards out, in the fourth quarter.  Amherst QB Brad Breckenridge got the visitors on the board with a four-yard touchdown run towards the end of the game.

Fetter finished 26-for-32 passing for 345 yards and a career-high six touchdowns, while Kirby rushed 18 times for 92 yards.  Reid and Girard had nine catches each with Reid totaling 157 yards and Girard finishing with 102 yards. Girard also became Trinity's all-time leading receiver with 158 career catches on his ninth reception of the day.  Breckenridge  was 11-for-21 for 82 yard through the air.  Defensively, senior Joe Cappiello (Hartsdale, N.Y.) paced Trinity with five tackles and classmate Aidan Kennedy (East Longmeadow, Mass.) had an interception on Amherst's first drive.  Michael Jeffrey had nine tackles for Amherst. Fetter's six touchdown passes tied a Trinity program record for most in a single-game. The last player to do so was Joe Shield who tossed six scores against Bates College in 1984.