AMHERST, Mass.— Sophomores Sofia Guttman (Weston, Fla.) and Bridget Finley (Bronxville, N.Y.) scored two goals each as No. 16 Amherst College closed the game with a 6-3 run to post a come-from-behind 15-14 victory over No. 20 Babson College in a dramatic non-conference women's lacrosse game Sunday afternoon at Pratt Field at Lehrman Stadium.

With the loss, Babson had its 10-game winning streak snapped and dropped to 11-2 overall while Amherst won its fourth game in a row to up its record to 8-5 on the season.

Junior Jessica Evans (Southbury, Conn.) led the Beavers with a season-high five goals while graduate student Lily Ives (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and juniors Clare Connolly (Hanover, Mass.), Kathryn Blake (Medfield, Mass.) and Michaela Downer (North Andover, Mass.) scored two goals each for the Green and White. Connolly led the team with 11 draw controls, graduate student Anna Costello (Milton, Mass.) caused four turnovers and picked up four ground balls, and senior Genevieve Bushey (Lakeville, Conn.) contributed a goal and a pair of caused turnovers and ground balls. Junior Kathleen Murphy (Scarborough, Maine) made 11 saves in goal, her second-most in a game this season.

Guttman finished with five goals and an assist and Finley scored four times for the Mammoths, while first-year Mia Raven (Philadelphia, Pa.) chipped in with three goals and two assists and sophomore Kate Becker (Princeton, N.J.) contributed two goals and two assists. Raven also grabbed 11 draw controls and seven ground balls and caused four turnovers, and sophomore Jessye Salmon (Fleetwood, N.Y.) made nine saves in goal in the victory.

The teams traded a pair of goals each in the first six-plus minutes, including the first goal by Evans and a player-up goal by Downer for the Beavers. Amherst pulled ahead with three unanswered goals, one each by Raven, Becker and a player-up marker by Guttmann, to go up 5-2. Evans responded for Babson with back-to-back goals to end the first frame and start the second, but the Mammoths scored three straight again to take an 8-4 lead with 6:23 remaining in the second quarter.

Babson stayed hungry and proceeded to fire in six unanswered goals over the last six minutes of the second quarter and all of the third quarter, taking a 10-8 lead into the final 15 minutes. Bushey and Downer scored before the break and Blake scored the first two of the third quarter to tie the score, then Connolly and Ives gave the Beavers a two-goal advantage.

Finley and Evans exchanged goals to open the fourth quarter, and then Guttman scored twice in a 32-second span to tie the game at 11-11 with 8:31 remaining. Evans and Becker traded goals just 41 seconds apart before Connolly gave the Beavers their final lead of the game, 13-12, with 5:40 on the clock. Raven tied it 37 seconds later and Finley tallied the go-ahead and eventual game-winning goals at 3:42 and 1:33. Ives brought the Green and White back to within one with 1:04 remaining, but Raven caused a Babson turnover in the final minute and the Beavers never got the ball back for a potential tying goal.

Amherst finished with a 37-27 advantage in shots and won 20 of the 33 draws.

The Beavers will play their third straight road game on Wednesday with a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) match-up at Wheaton at 7 p.m. in Norton, Mass. Amherst hosts No. 4 Tufts on Saturday at 1 p.m.

GAME NOTES
• Babson has lost eight in a row and trail Amherst 8-1 all-time in a series that dates back to 2007.
• The Beavers are 3-2 against ranked teams this season.
• The outcome was Babson's first loss this season (10-1) and first since the start of last season (23-1) when scoring at least 10 goals.