Hamilton College's Jack Herlihy '22 posted three hits and drove in five runs as the Continentals rolled to a 16-7 NESCAC West Division win against the Amherst College Mammoths at Amherst's Memorial Field on Friday.
 
Hamilton (10-9, 2-1 NESCAC West) racked up 15 hits, drew five walks and had four hit batsmen. The Continentals scored five runs in the top of the second inning and clinched the win with eight in the eighth.
 
The Mammoths (5-11, 1-3) lost their fourth straight game. Amherst scored three runs in the fourth and ninth innings and added a single run in the eighth. The teams will play a doubleheader at Amherst starting at noon on Saturday, April 9.
 
Herlihy gave Hamilton an 8-3 lead with a two-run homer over the fence in right field in the seventh inning, and blasted a three-run bomb to dead center that made it 15-3 in the eighth. He also cracked his first triple.
 
Brady Slinger '22 also finished with three hits and drove in two runs for the Continentals. Phil Bernstein '23 extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a single and a double. Jackson Sattinger '24 and Jackson Johns '24 collected two hits apiece, and Gavin Schaefer-Hood '22 singled twice and scored three runs.
 
Starting pitcher Jack Eshleman '25 improved to 2-2 after he pitched four innings and allowed three runs on three hits with a walk and five strikeouts. He shut out the Mammoths during his first three innings. Jamie Hauswirth '22 tossed a scoreless fifth inning and lowered his earned run average to 2.35 in 7.2 innings this season.
 
Matt Kinne '25 drove in Hamilton's first run with a bloop single that landed near the right field line after the right fielder dove and couldn't come up with the ball. Bernstein followed with a line drive that landed near the line in left and went for a double as Johns scored. Adam Wijaya '22 plated Kinne with a sacrifice fly, and Slinger scored Bernstein with a solid single to left. Sattinger drove in Slinger with a hard single to left center for the fifth run.
 
In the fifth inning, Herlihy whacked a two-out triple down the right field line and trotted home on Johns' single up the middle for a 6-3 advantage. The Continentals put things out of reach in the eighth when they scored eight runs on just three hits along with three walks, three hit batsmen and two infield errors. Slinger drove in Bernstein with a bunt single that made it 9-3, Schaefer-Hood's single through the left side plated Sattinger and put Hamilton up 12-3. Herlihy was the next batter and he promptly increased the lead to 12 runs, and Johns scored the Continentals' 16^th run on a wild pitch.
 
Ethan Harrast '23 leads Hamilton with a .407 batting average and an OPS of 1.078. Sattinger has driven in 21 runs and Bernstein has scored 27. The team record for most runs scored in a season is 31.