Game One Box Score l Game Two Box Score l Photo Gallery 1 l Photo Gallery 2

Mesa, Ariz. – The Oberlin College baseball team continued to stay hot as it swept a doubleheader from Hamline University on Monday afternoon at Gene Autry Field in Mesa, Arizona. The Yeomen took the lid-lifter 7-5 in eight innings and scored three runs in the seventh in the nightcap to win 6-5.

“We are continuing to play well and do the little things it takes to win ball games,” Head Coach Eric Lahetta said. “We have a lot of guys seeing the ball very well right now and our pitching is getting better each game.”

Oberlin, which is now 8-3 overall and 4-1 on the trip to the left coast, trailed late in game one, but junior Ben Kauder came through with a two-out run-producing hit to tie the game at five in the bottom of the sixth.

Kauder also factored into the extra-inning heroics after reaching on an error and stealing second, he scored the go-ahead run on a base-knock by Max Phinney. Phinney, a local Oberlin native, would add an insurance tally as he was driven in by rookie Matt Fish.

Sophomore Jason James went 3-for-4 in the game, while Fish and Ben Puterbaugh checked in at 2-for-4.

Junior southpaw Grady Campion got the start on the bump and worked 5.1 innings, allowing just three earned runs along the way. However, it was junior Phil Brua who came out of the pen to earn his first of two wins on the day.

In the nightcap it appeared as if the Yeomen were going to settle for their second straight split, but this young upstart team had other ideas.

Again it was Kauder who came through in the clutch with a bases-loaded two-RBI single to give the Yeomen the walk-off win. The hit was one of three he had in the game.

Trailing 5-2 going into the home-half of the seventh, Fish started the inning with a hit and sophomore Brad Hantler later followed with a bunt single. Puterbaugh, who went 3-for-4 in the game, followed with an RBI single and Brandon Cantrill took one for the team to load the bases and setup the game-winning theatrics.

Junior Ryan Mouch made his first-career start on the mound and pitched very well. The Toledo, Ohio, native worked 4.1 innings allowing three runs (two earned) before giving way to Brua who recorded his third win in just two days.

Fish and Phinney each went 2-for-3 in the game.

Oberlin plays a single nine-inning game tomorrow against Thomas College. First pitch is set for 12 p.m. EST.