Series Stats vs. Kenyon - 4 Games (PDF)
Oberlin, Ohio – It was a tale of two different games for the Oberlin College baseball team as they took game one 16-2 on Sunday afternoon at Dill Field, but the visiting Lords of Kenyon College answered right back in the nightcap with a 14-4 win to earn the series split with the Yeomen.
Oberlin will head into next weekend's NCAC East series with Allegheny with a record of 11-16 and 2-4 in the league, while Kenyon moved 16-12 overall and 6-6 in conference action.
Making his first appearance since March 26, first-year
Sean Kiley showed no signs of rust as he tossed his third complete game of the year to move to 3-1. The right-hander from, Studio City, California, sprinkled five hits and two walks to go along with five strikeouts. He needed just 85 pitches, 56 of which were strikes, to secure the 21 outs. Of the two runs he allowed, just one was earned.
The Yeomen offense backed his efforts with 16 hits with
Kyle Decker and
Ryan Bliss leading the way with three each.
Andrew Hutson,
Danny Baldocchi and Blaise Doclemaschio also recorded two hits and combined to score eight runs.
Oberlin jumped on the Lords with a six-run second as they sent 10 men to the plate and belted out six hits.
Mitch Novak sent the first run across on single through the left side and then
Justin Cruz followed with a two-RBI single through the right side. Another run would come across on Dolcemaschio's infield hit. Decker would later register his first RBI of the game before Hutson would conclude the barrage with a sac fly.
Oberlin would add three more in the third to stake Kiley to an eight-run lead at 9-1. Novak and Decker each registered an RBI in the inning, while the other tally was posted on a first-and-third double steal with Bliss coming across the dish.
After a lone run in the fourth, the Yeomen would add on three more runs in each of the fifth and sixth innings to put the game out of reach for good.
Benjamin Whitener had an RBI double in the fifth, while
Jeff Schweighoffer, Hutson and
Daniel Becker drove in runs in the sixth.
Unfortunately for Yeomen fans the roles were reversed in game two as the Lords scored six runs in the first two innings, plating five in top of the first put the Yeomen in a steep deficit.
The Yeomen tried to chip away at the lead with single tallies in the first and second, but could not find a way to post a crooked number through the nine innings. In the first, Baldocchi lifted a sac fly to right, and in the second Novak doubled and would score on
Brian Hemmert's single to left.
Following 2.2 innings of scoreless relief from
Jordan Cohen, the Yeomen were still in the game and would make it 6-3 in the bottom of the fourth as Bliss doubled and scored on a fielder's choice off the bat of Cruz.
However, the Lords would bust the game open with a five-run fifth, with the crushing blow coming from Jake Dunn's two-out opposite field three-run double that short-hopped the wall in right.
Kenyon would go on to add single tallies in innings seven through nine. Oberlin's final run would come across in the bottom of the ninth as Cruz sent Bliss home with a single back up the middle.
Whitener (1-2) took the loss as he lasted just 1.2 innings after allowing six runs on seven hits. Tim Krahn (4-2) went eight innings for the Lords, surrendering five hits and two walks, while striking out seven.
Oberlin will be back in action at home next weekend when Allegheny College comes to town for key NCAC East series. First pitch each day is scheduled 12 p.m.
