Box Score AMHERST, Mass. - The visiting Trinity College Bantams led, 12-3, heading into the bottom of the ninth inning but the Amherst College Mammoths scored 10 runs in their final turn at bat to steal a 13-12 victory in the first game of a New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) three-game, cross-division series this afternoon at Memorial Field.  Trinity falls to 10-11 with its third loss in four days, while Amherst improves to 7-13-1.  The teams will play a doubleheader on Memorial Field tomorrow beginning at 10 a.m.  

Trinity took two one-run leads early, scoring the game's first run in the second inning when senior Colin Mann (Dedham, Mass.) doubled and scored on a ground ball and taking a 3-2 lead in the third frame on a solo homer by sophomore Bennett Teceno (Centerville, Mass.).  The Bantams scored in six consecutive innings to go ahead, 9-3, after seven.  Mann doubled home a run in the fifth and homered in the seventh, while fellow senior Mike Guanci (Wakefield, Mass.) brought Mann and himself across the plate with a two-run bomb in the fifth stanza.  Mann finished 5-for-5 with five runs scored and Guanci was 3-for-4.

Trinity, which received seven strong innings from senior tri-captain Jimmy Fahey (Danbury, Conn.) who allowed three runs, two earned, and five hits with six strikeouts in a no-decision, scored three more times in the ninth inning.  First-year 3B Tanner Fairchild (Sarasota, Fla.) belted a two-run double and eventually scored on a wild pitch to make the score, 12-3.  The Mammoths came alive in the bottom of the ninth, using six singles, two doubles, a walk, and two Bantam errors to score 10 runs.  Amherst's Jack Boyle singled up the middle with two outs to bring home the game-tying and game-winning runs.