AMHERST, Mass. – Amherst College's Cara Mancini tallied two goals and an assist in the Mammoths' 5-1 NESCAC win against the Hamilton College Continentals inside Amherst's Orr Rink on Friday, Feb. 21. 
 

Season Update

• Hamilton (11-10-2, 6-7-2 NESCAC) is in fifth place in the conference standings with one game left in the regular season. 
• Amherst (17-5-1, 10-4-1) is ranked sixth in the USCHO.com Division III Top 15 poll. 

How It Happened

• Amherst took a 1-0 lead 9:24 into the first period on a power-play goal as Emily Hohmann found the net from above the right faceoff circle near the blue line.
• Hamilton evened the score with 4:42 left in the first. Grace Long '27 sent a perfect centering pass to Abby Weiss '25 who fired a wrist shot up and over the left shoulder of goaltender Natalie Stott.
• The Mammoths regained the lead with 58.4 seconds remaining in the period, capitalizing on a loose puck in front of the net.
• Amherst scored again 3:22 into the second period and stretched its lead to 4-1 with 8:37 left in the period. 
• The Mammoths netted their fifth and final goal on the power play 7:53 into the third period. 

Notes

• Weiss recorded her fifth goal of the season. 
• Katie Allen '26 passed out her fourth helper of the season.
• Long handed out her second career assist.
• Lisa Ito-Bagshaw '25 blocked a team-best five shots. 
• Grace Puskar '27 won 8-of-13 faceoffs.
• Teagan Brown '27 made 13 of her 27 stops in the third period for the Continentals.
• Stott tallied 23 saves for Amherst. 
• Alyssa Xu had a goal and an assist and Maeve Reynolds picked up two helpers.
• Anna Baxter won 17-of-23 faceoffs as the Mammoths won 36-of-57 as a team. 
• Amherst was 2-for-4 on the power play while the Continentals were 0-for-3 with the extra skater. 
• The Mammoths owned a 32-24 shot advantage.  

Next Game

The teams play again at Amherst on Saturday, Feb. 22 at 3 p.m.