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Oberlin, Ohio - Phil Brua set the single-season saves record and Ben Puterbaugh extended his hitting streak to 19 games as the Oberlin College baseball team gutted out a doubleheader sweep of Wittenberg University on Saturday afternoon, winning the lid-lifter 10-9 before taking the nightcap 8-7.

By busting out the brooms on the Tigers, Oberlin improved its record to 16-9 overall and is just one victory shy of tying the school record for wins in a season. Moreover, the Yeomen are now 6-2 in one-run ball games.

Rookie Eric Knight finished the day for 4-for-6 with three doubles, three RBI's and four runs, while Puterbaugh ended 4-for-8 with a pair of doubles.

In game one the Yeomen found themselves down 5-0 until the fourth inning when they sent two runs across the dish on RBI's by senior Zach Berman and freshman Matt Fish.

The Tigers would strike back with a three-spot in the top of the fifth to make it 8-2, but another pair of Oberlin runs courtesy of Knight and fellow rookie Robin Witjes kept them within striking distance with two full innings left to play.

Oberlin would make Wittenberg pay for letting them hang around as the Yeomen pounded out six hits and also benefited from three Tigers' errors in the home-half of the sixth inning to take a 10-8 lead. The big hit in the inning came courtesy of Knight, who welcomed relief pitcher Darrin Mumaw into the game by driving the second pitch he saw into the right-center-field gap for a two-run double. Ben Kauder, Max Phinney and Witjes also had RBI's in the frame.

In the top of the seventh things got a little shaky for the Yeomen as Brua had to work around three Oberlin errors to preserve the win and earn his school-recording setting fourth save of the season. However, the Yeomen defense did come through with a huge play as the Tigers tried to tag up from second base on a sac fly to center that scored one run, but Witjes made a perfect throw to cutoff man Jason James who relayed it Puterbaugh at third base to gun down the potential tying-run.

Freshman Greg D'Agincourt earned his first collegiate win as he tossed 1.2 innings of scoreless relief that saw him allow just two hits while recording three punchouts along the way.

Game two was a seesaw affair from the start as the two teams traded runs in nearly every inning. The winning run happened to come across in the bottom of the fifth on a two-out balk call that scored Knight who led off the inning with a single, stole second and went to third on a wild pitch.

The Yeomen posted crooked numbers in the second and fourth innings. Oberlin pushed three across the board in the second on run-producing singles by Witjes and Fish, and would add a third on a squeeze bunt by James.

Puterbugh would put OC on top 7-6 with a two-run double in the fourth, but Wittenberg would tie things up with an unearned run in the fifth before giving it right back with the balk in the bottom of the frame.

After a bloop single to start the sixth, Brua would strikeout the side and then sit down three of the four hitters he faced in the seventh to increase his school-record saves total to five.

Oberlin will have a chance to match or surpass the school record for wins when they welcome local rival Case Reserve to the Pipeyard on Wednesday for a 5 p.m. twinbill. The Yeomen will look to avenge a season-opening loss to the Spartans when they fell 13-7 back on March 18.