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Mesa, Ariz. – The Oberlin College baseball team scored four runs in the top of the ninth inning to upend the MIT Engineers 13-9 for a thrilling extra-inning game one victory, but couldn't carry the momentum over into game two as they fell 9-3.

The Yeomen (2-5) trailed 8-5 heading into the seventh inning of game one, but busted out with four runs in the frame to reclaim the lead by a 9-8 count. Sophomore Ryan Mouch got the inning started with a single to right field and pinch runner Henry Bloomfield came around to score the first run of the rally on a bases-loaded walk that was drawn by Brian Verne. Following an RBI groundout by Ben Puterbaugh, senior quad-captain #P.J. Carter# belted a two-run double to center field for the Yeomen advantage.

In the home-half of the seventh it appeared as if the Yeomen were in big trouble as Ryne Barry was issued a lead-off walk and eventually came around to score on a single to center, but freshman southpaw Drew Mixter pitched out of a bases-loaded nobody-out jam as he induced a groundout back to himself on a 3-2 pitch to Stephen Toth.

After a quite eighth inning for both squads, sophomore Ben Kauder battled out of a 1-2 hole with a seeing-eye-RBI-single back up the box to score Verne from second base. After a walk to Jeremy Simon to load the bases, second-year player Brandon Cantrill broke things open with a bases-clearing double.

Mixter then worked a perfect bottom of the ninth to preserve his first collegiate win. In his three innings of work, the Howell, Michigan, native allowed just three hits, while fanning two Engineers along the way. Out of his 56 pitches, 32 went for strikes.

In game two, the Yeomen started fast with two runs in the first inning, but from then on the bats went silent.

MIT answered with single tallies in the first and second to knot things up at a deuce apiece where it would stay until the fifth when the Engineers plated five runs on three hits. Oberlin tried to respond as Cantrill came through with an RBI single in the sixth, but it wasn't enough as MIT went on the add two more insurance runs in the seventh.

Sophomore Jack Dunn took the loss after working 4.1 innings – allowing four runs on five hits, but was plagued by seven walks.

Oberlin will go right back to work tomorrow afternoon as it takes on Elmhurst College at 12 p.m. PST in another doubleheader.