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Avon, Ohio – The Oberlin College baseball team started the 2013 season by sweeping the D'Youville College Spartans by the scores of 10-2 and 14-2 on Saturday afternoon at All-Pro Freight Stadium.
 
The Yeomen offense was spearheaded by sophomore Andrew Hutson who went 6-for-7 with four runs scored and three RBI's in the twinbill. Classmate Ben Whitener was also 4-for-6 with three runs scored and two RBI's.
 
Junior Mattie DeDoes got the start on the mound in game one and tossed five innings of no-hit baseball en route to earning his first win of the season. The right-hander from Ann Arbor, Michigan, recorded six strikeouts and walked just two. Rookie Henry Rice tossed a clean sixth as the Yeomen took the no-no into seventh, but D'Youville was finally able to break through in its last at-bat with two runs.
 
Oberlin got on the board by plating four runs on five hits in the second inning. Following a sac bunt by Mike McDonald, Hutson came through with a two-run single through the left side that sent Eric Knight and  Whitner across the dish. Freshman Blaise Dolcemaschio, who later scored on a wild pitch, followed with a single to right field for his first collegiate hit and then Kevin Verne would keep the rally going with an RBI double down the left field line.
 
The Yeomen would use two hits and take advantage of two errors by the Spartans to add two more tallies in the fourth, before tacking on three in a fifth inning that featured a run-producing single from Jeff Schweighoffer.  Oberlin would add one more run in the sixth on Brian Hemmert's triple to left field for his first collegiate hit that scored pinch runner John Evans.

In the nightcap D'Youville starter Jeff Spors was unable to record an out before he was chased out of the game. Spors created his own problems as he walked three and hit two of the seven batters he faced. Spors' ineffectiveness coupled with one error and just one Yeomen hit resulted in Oberlin posting a six-spot in the bottom of the first.
 
The second inning started with an opposite-field double down the right field line by Schweighoffer who would come around to score on Whitner's single back up the box. Knight then followed with the team's first home run of the season as he sent one out over the wall in left.
 
D'Youville would push one across in the third, but Oberlin would get it right back in the fourth on an RBI single by Ryan Bliss that sent Hutson home.  The Yeomen would take advantage of two D'Youville errors to add four more runs in the sixth. Evans and Mitch Novak each had RBI's in the inning.
 
Justin Kidd earned the win as he worked four innings, allowing one run on three hits. He fanned five of the 17 batters he faced and walked just two. Rookies Josh Newborn, Jordan Cohen and Machmud Makhmudov each threw an inning to finish out the game.
 
These same two teams will go at again tomorrow with another doubleheader from All-Pro Freight Stadium. First pitch is set for 1 p.m.