The Hamilton College Continentals tallied 24 hits in a NESCAC West Division doubleheader sweep of the Amherst College Mammoths on Sunday at Amherst's Memorial Stadium.
 
Hamilton cruised to a 13-3 win in the seven-inning opener and posted a 7-5 victory in the nine-inning nightcap. The Continentals won all three games against the Mammoths for the first time dating back to 2001. Hamilton will be back in action on Tuesday, April 12 with a non-conference game against the University of Rochester at 7 p.m.
 
Game 1
 
The Continentals (12-9, 4-1 NESCAC West) were powered by Brady Slinger '22 who went 4-for-4 with a home run and plated three runs. Hamilton scored a run in six out of the seven innings.
 
Phil Bernstein '23 and Jackson Sattinger '24 finished with two hits apiece. Bernstein drove in two runs and Sattinger knocked in three. Adam Wijaya '22, Gavin Schaefer-Hood '22, Jack Herlihy '22, Jackson Johns '24 and Shane Dux '24 collected one hit each in the first seven-inning contest.
 
Hamilton tacked on a run in the top of the first. Bernstein kicked off the inning with a double to right field and found third base on a fielder's choice. Slinger was hit by a pitch and then forced a throwing error on a stolen base that scored Bernstein.
 
The Continentals knocked in three runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings. Slinger started the third with a two-out single up the middle. He stole second and scored on a Sattinger single to right field. Schaefer-Hood roped a double down the left field line and with two outs and two runners on, Herlihy found the green with a single to the right side that plated Sattinger and Schaefer-Hood.
 
In the fourth inning, Bernstein drew a two-out walk and Wijaya reached first base on a fielding error that allowed Bernstein to advance to third. Slinger collected his second home run of the season with a shot over the right field fence. Slinger is batting .425 and leads the Continentals with 31 hits.
 
Amherst took three runs back in the bottom half of the fourth. Jack Dove got the offense going with a single to right field and Jackson Reydel reached base on a fielder's choice. Camden New drew a walk to load the bases, and all runners advanced on a wild pitch. Ryan McIntyre's double down the left field line plated Reydel and New.
 
Schaefer-Hood and Herlihy led off the fifth inning with walks, and after an Amherst pitching change, Johns reached on another Mammoth fielding error that loaded the bases. With two outs, Schaefer-Hood scampered home on a wild pitch, and Bernstein drove in two runs with a double to left field.
 
The Continentals added two runs in the sixth. Slinger rapped a single to center field and Sattinger knocked the ball over the fence for a two-run homer and a 12-3 lead.
 
Hamilton added its final run in the top of the seventh. Johns doubled down the line in left and scored on a single up the middle by Dux.
 
Brendan Kastner '23 (1-0) started on the mound and pitched three shutout innings for the win, allowing only two hits and striking out one. Jamie Hauswirth '22, David Galvao '23 and Ed Connolly '23 combined to pitch 3.1 innings of one-hit relief and fanned four.
 
Game two
 
Sattinger led the Continentals with three hits. Slinger, Dux and Jack Griffin '24 tallied two each. Bernstein and Herlihy notched one apiece.
 
Hamilton jumped on top with a run in the first inning. Bernstein cracked another double to center field and scored on Slinger's single through the left side.
 
The Continentals plated two runs in the second. Dux led off the inning with a double down the left field line. Griffin put Dux on third with a single to left field, and Johns' sacrifice fly plated Dux. With two outs, Wijaya reached first base on a throwing error by the shortstop, and Griffin took home on the play.
 
Hamilton had its best inning in the third with three runs. Herlihy knocked a single through the right side and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Dux followed with a single to left field that put Herlihy on third. Griffin kept things going with a deep shot over the right field fence for a three-run homer.
 
The Mammoths scored its first run in the bottom half of the inning. McIntyre singled to right field with two outs and Jack McDermott drew a walk. Reydel's single up the middle scored both McIntyre and McDermott.
 
Amherst tallied two more runs in the sixth and cut its deficit in half at 6-3. The Mammoths found themselves within one run after they plated two in the eighth inning.
 
The Continentals scored an insurance run – their first since the third inning -- in the top of the ninth. Slinger hit a one-out single to center and advanced to second on a wild pitch, and Sattinger produced a single through the left side that drove in Slinger. Sattinger retired the side in order in the bottom of the ninth for his first career save.
 
Schaefer-Hood (3-2) picked up his third win this season and his 18^th at Hamilton on the bump after he allowed three runs on five hits in 5.2 innings and fanned four.