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Cleveland, Ohio – The Oberlin College baseball team split a pair of nine-inning affairs with local rival Case Western Reserve on Wednesday afternoon, dropping the first game 8-5, before rebounding to take game two 5-2.
 
The freshmen pitching combination of Jordan Cohen and Harrison Wollman were simply outstanding in game two as the duo held the Spartans to just two runs and seven hits over nine innings. Wollman got the win as he tossed 5.1 innings in relief, allowing five hits and one run. He walked just two and struck out a career-high five.  The Pacific Palisades, California, native threw 85 pitches, 55 of which went for strikes.
 
The Yeomen plated a single tally in the third on an RBI groundout by Mitch Novak to score Robin Witjes. The Spartans would even things up in the fourth, but the Yeomen would retake the lead by plating a pair in the top of the fifth. Ryan Bliss, who was 3-for-4 in the game, started a two-out rally with a double to the left center gap and would later come around to score on a wild pitch. A single by Ben Whitener would then score Mitch Novak to give Oberlin a 3-1 lead.
 
The Yeomen would add a pair of runs in the seventh as Jeff Schweighoffer hit a clutch run-producing single through the right side before Mike McDonald would send Whitener across the dish on a RBI groundout to third base.
 
Wollman kept the Spartans off the board in innings five through eight and took a 5-1 lead into the ninth. He would get the first two batters of the inning in order before back-to-back hits resulted in one run coming across. However, no more damage was done as he improved to 2-2 on the year.
 
In the lid-lifter the Spartans scored at least one run over the last five innings as they outlasted the Yeomen by the three-run margin. Sean Cohen, Andrew Hutson and Witjes each had two hits in the game for the Yeomen.
 
Justin Kidd threw 127 pitches in 6.2 innings, allowing five runs (four earned), while fanning three and walking eight. Just 69 of his 127 tosses went for strikes as he fell to 1-3 on the year. 
 
Oberlin scored the first run of the game in the top of the fourth as Schweighoffer led off the inning with a double down the right field line and would later score on Hutson's sac fly to right field.
 
The Spartans would respond by scoring one in the fourth, two in the fifth and one in the sixth to claim a 4-1 lead heading into the top of the seventh.
 
Oberlin would cut the deficit down to one, 4-3, in the top of the seventh as Witjes came through with a two-out two-run single to score Whitener and Daniel Baldocchi, who both singled earlier in the inning.
 
Unfortunately, the Spartans would answer back with a single tally in the home half of the seventh before adding on two more in the eighth. The Yeomen plated two in the ninth, but it was not enough.
 
Hutson, who had two hits in game one, saw his 13-game hitting streak come to an end in game two.
 
Oberlin returns to action on Saturday when it opens up a four-game NCAC East series at the College of Wooster. First pitch of the doubleheader is set for high noon.