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Oberlin, Ohio – The Oberlin College baseball team used two different paths to arrive at the same result, earning a doubleheader sweep of Hiram College on Saturday afternoon by the scores of 11-0 and 14-8.
 
In the lid-lifter junior Mattie DeDoes tossed six innings of shutout baseball and his teammates backed him up with 11 runs on 15 hits as he improved to 3-0 on the year.
 
In the nightcap the Yeomen found themselves in a lull, trailing 7-3 heading into the eighth inning before erupting for 11 runs over the final two innings to complete the sweep.
 
Jeff Schweighoffer paced the Yeomen offense by going 6-for-9 with a double, triple and five runs scored. Ryan Bliss added four hits and six RBI's, while also belting his first-career home run in the sweep.
 
Already leading 1-0 early in game one, Oberlin scored four runs in the top of third. Back-to-back doubles by Mike McDonald and Eric Knight sent two runs home, and Schweihoffer later followed with an RBI triple to the gap in right center before scoring on a balk.
 
The Yeomen would add a single tally in the fifth on Andrew Hutson's two-out single to right field before pouring it on with five runs in the seventh. Ben Whitener got the rally going with a run-producing single back up the box, and Hutson would later rope a two-run double to the gap in right center. Bliss would then cap the Yeomen scoring with a line-drive two-run home run over the wall in right.
 
DeDoes scattered seven hits over his six innings of work, striking out six and walking none. He threw 81 pitches, 53 of which went for strikes. Justin Kidd worked a perfect 1-2-3 seventh to complete the shutout.
 
The Yeomen needed six pitchers in the nightcap to finally put away the Terriers. McDonald entered to start the eighth to earn his first win of the season. However, it was Kidd's effort out of the bullpen that put Oberlin in position for a potential comeback as he tossed 3.1 innings of hitless baseball.
 
Down four heading into the eighth, the Yeomen bats came to life as they batted around in the inning en route to scoring five runs. A bases-loaded single up the middle by Bliss scored Hutson and Schweighoffer, and McDonald later worked a bases-loaded walk to make it a 7-6 game, however, the Yeomen were not done there.  
 
Hiram turned to Terry Stimson as its third pitcher of the inning, but he was greeted into the game with an RBI-single from Knight. Whitener then plated the go-ahead run on a fielder's choice groundout in which he hustled down the line to beat the relay throw on a potential double-play ball.
 
Now trailing 8-7, Hiram was able to get back to even on Tim Calhoun's two-out RBI double to right field, but Oberlin was able to grab the momentum right back in the top of the ninth.
 
In the ninth, the Yeomen sent 10 men to the plate, scoring six runs on five hits and two Hiram errors with all of the runs coming with two outs. A single to right field by Zach Jaspers coupled with an error by the right fielder allowed two runs to score. Sophomore Mitch Novak would follow with an RBI single before junior Sean Cohen would belt a two-run double off the base of the wall in centerfield. Whitener would cap the scoring with a single up the middle to score pinch runner Kevin Verne.
 
McDonald then worked a clean ninth in which he recorded one strikeout and two groundouts to lock down the win.
 
Earlier in the game, the Yeomen struck first on McDonald's opposite-field home run over the wall in right in the top of the first inning, however, Hiram would respond with two runs in the bottom of the frame.
 
Oberlin evened the score at 2-2 in the second, but the Terriers would tack on three more in the third to chase Yeomen starter Jesse Kohler. It remained 5-2 until the top of the sixth when Oberlin manufactured a run on a Bliss' groundout that scored Schweighoffer.  Hiram would then score two in the seventh to go up 7-3 and ultimately set the stage for the Yeomen late-inning heroics.
 
The Yeomen have a short turnaround as they go right back to work on Monday at Bluffton. First pitch is set for 1 p.m.