AUBURNDALE, Fla. -- The Amherst College Lord Jeffs scored six runs in the seventh inning to snap a 6-6 tie and went on to defeat the University of Southern Maine Huskies 13-7 in non-conference baseball action Saturday at Lake Myrtle #1 in Auburndale, Fla.

            The loss was the second straight for the Huskies who fall to 3-3.  The Lord Jeffs picked up their fourth win in the last five games to improve to 6-3.

            Tied 6-6 through six innings, Amherst combined five hits, two hit batsman and an infield error into six runs in the bottom of the seventh to grab a 12-6 lead.  Each team plated a single run in the eighth inning to account for the final score.

            Sophomores Bob Cook (Winnetka, Ill.) and Nolan Stewart (New Canaan, Conn), junior Mike Samela (Westport, Conn.) and senior Scott Shaffer (Boulder, Colo.) paced the Lord Jeffs' 18-hit attack with three hits apiece.  Rookie hurler Cam Windham (Washington, D.C.) picked up the win with 3.2 innings of scoreless relief.

            Senior Josh Mackey (Danvers, Mass.) and junior Anthony Pisani (Cheshire, Conn.) each had three hits for the Huskies.  Senior Grey Goodrich (Amesbury, Mass.), the second of four Husky pitchers, was saddled with the loss.

            The Huskies tallied four runs in the fifth inning to erase a one-run deficit and take a 6-3 lead.  Mackey drove in the first run with a single.  Sophomore Nick Grady (Whitefield, Maine) brought home the second run with a sacrifice fly.  Mackey would score on a fielder's choice, and sophomore Tucker White (Deerfield, N.H.) came across the plate on a double steal for the final run.

            Amherst got two back in the home half of the fifth on RBI singles by Samela and Stewart, and tied the game in the sixth on Cook's sacrifice fly.

            In the seventh, the first seven Amherst batters reached base (five hits and two hit batters) to push across four runs.  Cook's second sac fly and an error brought in the final two runs.

            Southern Maine will play a twin bill on Sunday (1:30 p.m.) against Trinity College in Winter Haven, Fla.  Amherst closes its 10-game Florida trip Sunday (9:30 a.m.) playing Grinnell College.

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