Box Score

Oberlin, Ohio – On a cool sun-drenched afternoon, the Oberlin College baseball team closed out its home portion of the 2009 season in a 9-1 defeat at the hands of Baldwin-Wallace College.

The Yellow Jackets (17-15) used a four-run third and added four more in the fourth to cruise to the win, as the Oberlin offense was stagnant throughout the entire nine-inning affair. The Yeomen, who had six different players with a lone hit, plated their only run of the game on single by Ben Master to score Jeremy Simon.

Senior Eric Gibbs got the start on the bump and took the loss after allowing two runs on three hits in two-plus innings of work. Gibbs left the game with the score tied at one following a solo shot by Jim Martin and a single by Cody Kidd. However, reliever Jack Dunn couldn't prevent Kidd from scoring, which put Gibbs on the hook for the loss. In fact the Yellow Jackets would rough-up Dunn for two more runs in the inning to take a 4-1 lead.

Oberlin (14-23), which entered the game with a chance to set the school's all-time wins record, couldn't generate any offense as they only managed just four hits after the second inning.

Playing in his first collegiate game, freshman Willy Elman roped a single to right field in the bottom of the ninth in his first career at-bat.

The Yeomen will take the weekend off before traveling to John Carroll for a single nine-inning game on Tuesday and then conclude the season with a twinbill at Bluffton on Thursday.