Auburn, New York – When everyone went to sleep last night the No. 8 Oberlin College Yeomen trailed the No. 3 Keystone College Giants, 4-1, but by 11:02 a.m. in the east, they were 5-4 winners in the NCAA Division III Regional at Falcon Park.
 
The Yeomen scored four runs in exactly one hour to continue their magical postseason journey and will now take on the RPI Engineers at 1 p.m. for the right to advance to the championship round against No. 1 Cortland.
 
Oberlin wasted no time attacking Jake Granteed, who started the game in the bottom of the sixth with one out. He would face just three batters without recording an out. The restart began with Kyle Decker reaching on an error, and Andrew Hutson and Benjamin Whitener followed with back-to-back singles with Whitener's scoring Decker. Danny Baldocchi would then come through with his first hit of the regional, sending a single through the left side to plate Hutson and cut the deficit down to one at 4-3.
 
Milo Sklar, who pitched the sixth last night, returned to the mound in the seventh after nearly 12 hours of rest. He would work around a leadoff walk in the inning. In the eighth the Giants would put runners on the corners with one out, but he would get Joe Angelucci to hit into an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play to post another zero on the board.
 
In the Yeomen eighth is where the magic happened with two outs. Senior leftfielder Ryan Bliss roped a 2-2 pitch to right center that rolled all the way to the wall, resulting in an RBI triple that scored pinch runner Sam Harris and tied the game 4-4. The game-winning run came courtesy of Mitch Novak as he sent a 1-1 pitch into left center to put the Yeomen on top.
 
The Keystone ninth started with a leadoff single by Julian Lanfranco, but Sklar would sit down the next three hitters in order to extend the Yeomen's time in Auburn.
 
Sklar moved to 4-5 on the year as he worked a total of four scoreless innings in the game, allowing just two hits.
 
Novak and Decker led the Yeomen with two hits each, accounting for four of the team's nine in the game.
 
The win was the third straight for the Yeomen at the Regional, tying their longest stretch of the season.
 
Fans can follow all of the action against RPI at starting at 1 p.m. on goyeo.com/stream.