Box Score

Oberlin, Ohio – The Oberlin College baseball team couldn't come up with a clutch hit when they needed it, allowing the Baldwin-Wallace College Yellow Jackets to escape town with a 2-1 win on Tuesday afternoon.

In total the Yeomen stranded six runners on base and three times left a runner on third in the setback.  The Yeomen out-hit the Yellow Jackets 9-8 as Sean Cohen and Robin Witjes led the way with two hits apiece. Cohen has now hit safely in 13 straight games, marking the longest streak of his career.

Yeomen starter Justin Kidd went 5.2 innings before giving way to Mike McDonald. Kidd allowed five hits and three walks, but just the one earned run.

The Yellow Jackets plated one run off of Kidd in the top of the first and it remained that way until the bottom of the third when Oberlin used three hits to even things up at 1-1. Cohen provided the Yeomen's lone run of the game as his double down the right field line scored Zach Jaspers. However, OC had an opportunity to add even more with two runners in scoring position with just one out.  Unfortunately, B-W starter Brent Edmonds was able to get the next to Yeomen hitters to strike out and pop out to prevent any more damage.

McDonald pitched out of a bases loaded jam in the sixth, but the Yellow Jackets were able to scratch out the go-ahead run in the seventh.  Kyle Chantos, who reached on a two-out single and later advanced on a passed ball, scored the run for B-W on Brad Gugliotta's pinch-hit single down the right field line.

Oberlin had its opportunities throughout game. After leaving a pair on in the third,  Ethan Blumenthal was standing on third base with just one out in the fifth, but back-to-back punchouts by Edmonds left him out there.  In the eighth the Yeomen had runners at second and third with two outs, but again Edmonds was able to escape unscathed.

In the Yeomen ninth Jeff Schweighoffer got aboard with a single to center, but then the bad luck for the Yeomen continued as Kevin Verne ripped a line shot right at the third basemen who gloved it and fired back to first to get Schweighoffer for the game-ending double play.

Oberlin, which fell to 16-14 with the loss, returns to action this weekend when it takes on Allegheny College in a critical North Coast Athletic Conference series.