HARTFORD, Conn. - The Trinity College Bantams and the No. 10-ranked Amherst College Mammoths were tied at 5-all at the half, but the visiting Mammoths poured in 11 goals in the second half to hand Trinity a 16-10 setback in the final game of the regular season for both teams this evening on Jessee/Miller Field at Tansill Muldoon Stadium. Trinity finishes the regular slate at 8-7 overall and posts its best NESCAC record since 2012 at 5-5. The Mammoths finish their regular season at 10-4 overall and 6-4 in the conference. The Bantams will be the No. 6 seed in the NESCAC Championship Tournament and visit No. 3-seeded Williams in the quarterfinals on Saturday at 1 p.m. No. 4-seeded Amherst will host Bowdoin in their quarterfinal game Saturday at the same time. Senior tri-captain
Harrison Ike (Allentown, Pa.) scored three goals for the Bantams.
Each team scored twice in the first quarter, including Bantam goals by junior
Andrew Bailey (Madison, N.J.) and rookie
Jack Almeida (New Canaan, Conn.). Amherst scored the first three goals of the second frame including two man-up goals by Bayard DeMaille, but Trinity answered with a 3-0 run before halftime. Trinity sophomore
Hayden Shin (New Canaan, Conn.) won a faceoff and sprinted with the ball toward the Amherst goal before feeding Bailey for a goal with 5:44 on the clock. Bantam rookies
Ryan Challice (Pleasantville, N.Y.) and Almeida scored in the final 2:14 of the second quarter to knot the game 5-5 at intermission. Junior goalkeeper
Cooper Yaccino (Kenilworth, Ill.) had 12 saves at the break.
Amherst turned the tables on the Bantams with a 3-0 run to start the third stanza and a 4-0 run later in the third. Tanyr Krummenacher had a goal and three assists and Bob Gross scored twice during Amherst's 7-1 spurt. Sophomore LSM
John Cowdrick (Lexington, Mass.) scored a Trinity goal midway through the third quarter and Ike made the score, 12-7, at the final break with goal in the closing seconds of the third. The Mammoths put the game away with four more goals to start the fourth quarter. Ike notched two of three Bantam goals in the final 2:24 of the game.
Amherst finished with a 54-to-35 shooting advantage and scored three man-up goals. Trinity's defense was opportunistic, forcing 19 Amherst turnovers with Cowdrick causing five and senior tri-captain
David DeMartino (South Windsor, Conn.) forcing four for the Bantam defense. Shin won 16 of 29 faceoffs and scooped six ground balls, while Cowdrick had five ground balls ands Yaccino finished up with 15 saves. Krummenacher totaled two goals and six assists, while Gross added four goals and two assists. Mitch Likins had nine saves for Amherst.
