Final Stats From Spring Break - 14 Games (PDF)
Tucson, Arizona – The Oberlin College baseball team saw its 14-game spring break swing come to an end on Friday afternoon as the Yeomen fell to Grace University (Omaha, NE) 11-3 and 9-5.
With the setbacks the Yeomen dropped to 9-12 on the season and concluded the trip with a record of 6-8. Over the 14 games, the Yeomen batted .335 as a team, scoring 109 runs on 151 hits.
In the opener the Yeomen offense manage just nine hits and were held to just one run until the seventh inning.
Jeff Schweighoffer was the lone Yeoman with more than one hit as he finished 2-for-3 with two RBI.
Oberlin posted that lone run in the top of the first as
Kyle Decker wasted no time in extending his hitting streak to 16 with a double to center and would come around to score on
Andrew Hutson's double to center.
The Royals would take advantage of an error and couple it with a pair of hits to take a 2-1 lead after one full inning. They would go on to add two more in the second, five in the fifth and two in the sixth as the Yeomen headed into their last at-bat trailing 9-1.
In the seventh, rookie
Sam Harris drew a lead-off walk and then sophomore
Darren Zaslau delivered his first-career hit with a single to left. Freshman
Jack Brewster also came through with a pinch-hit single to load bases. Schweighoffer would later come through with a two-out two-RBI single to cap the game's scoring.
In the nightcap the Yeomen would again strike first as Harris led off with a single and score on a sac fly by Schweighoffer in the home-half of the first.
In the second the Royals would take advantage of three free bases and coupled the charity with two hits to take a 3-1 lead.
After another single tally in the third, Oberlin would get back to even in the bottom of the inning on Hutson's towering two-out three-run home run over the wall in left to tie the game at 4-4. It was the senior's first long ball of the season.
The Royals' fourth started with a critical Oberlin error that ultimately allowed them to plate two unearned runs. A sac fly in the fifth would give them a 7-4 cushion with three at-bats left for the Yeomen.
In the top of the sixth, the Royals had the bases loaded as they looked to put the game away for good, but
John Evans tracked down a ball in the right center gap and caught it on a dive to save three runs and keep the Yeomen within striking distance.
The bottom of the sixth started with
Benjamin Whitener belting a home run over the scoreboard in right, but the inning ended with two Yeomen stranded and no more runs coming across.
Grace would go on to add two more insurance runs in the top of the seventh to cap the game's scoring.
Oberlin will return home and open conference play on Friday, April 3 at Hiram.
