Stats From the Trip (6 games)

Tucson, AZ – The Oberlin College baseball team even up its record at 4-4 by knocking off Carleton College 5-3 and 9-8 on Monday afternoon at the Kino Sports Complex.
 
In game one, junior southpaw Kyle Dominy took the mound for the second time this season and struck out a career high seven in five innings of work. He allowed just two hits, three walks and one unearned run. However, he had to depart after the fifth with a 5-1 lead due to a large pitch count with 61 of his 96 tosses going for strikes. He is now 1-1 on the year.
 
The Knights plated the game's first run in the top of the second as Adam Shaukat drew a lead-off walk and came around to score on Austin Heuer's double to right field that was coupled with an error to allow Shaukat to score all the way from first. However, Dominy fanned two of the next three hitters to limit the damage.
 
The Yeomen would take the lead in the bottom of the second as Mike Masella came through with a clutch two-out RBI-single to centerfield before junior Justin Cruz placed a run-scoring double just inside the right field line to send Masella home and give Oberlin a 2-1 cushion.
 
Oberlin plated another pair in the third as Brian Carney's one out double put two men in scoring position for senior co-captain Colin Brown who sent a 3-2 pitch to left field for a key two-run double.
 
The Yeomen fourth started with Masella getting his second hit of the game and he would later score on a sacrifice fly from Cruz to give Oberlin a comfortable four-run cushion.
 
Freshman Noah Gear made his first collegiate appearance in the sixth, pitching around two hits to go along with a strikeout.
 
After left hander Joe Greenberg retired the first hitter in the top of the seventh, the Yeomen turned to closer Milo Sklar to finish the job, but it wasn't easy as he hit a batter and allowed two singles with Cody Bohlman's two-run single back up the middle cutting the Yeomen lead in half. Shaukat, who was the potential game-tying run then walked – but Sklar would settle down and strikeout Heuer looking to end the game.
 
Game two certainly wasn't pretty for the Yeomen pitching staff as they issued 10 walks, but in the end all the matters is they got a win. The Yeomen hurlers could thank a trio of freshmen for that as Jake Reynolds, Brendan Mapes and Ian Dinsmore combined to go 9-for-10 at the plate with two walks, five RBI and five runs scored.
 
Oberlin took an early 3-0 lead, positing a single tally in the first before adding a pair in the second. In the opening frame, Mapes worked an 11-pitch walk and would later score on an error.
 
It was Mapes again who came through in the second as he followed Dinsmore's double with a two-RBI single of his own.
 
In the top of the third the Knights would chase Yeomen freshman starter David Gaetano from the game. The southpaw from Clarksville, Tennessee, was battling through control problems in his first collegiate start and was relieved by Ben Lovett after surrendering a two-run home run to Heuer to cut the Yeomen lead down to one.
 
Senior co-captain Brian Hemmert would get one of those runs back in the bottom of the inning, with an RBI single to score Reynolds, but Carleton would strike back with two runs on just one hit in the fourth. The Yeomen bullpen issued four free passes in the inning with three walks and a hit by pitch, with two of the walks coming with the bases loaded to tie the game at 4-4.
 
A triple to right center by Mapes put the Yeomen out in front 5-4 as he sent Dinsmore across the dish, but again the Knights answered back with a single tally of their own to tie the game.
 
However, the even game didn't last for long as Reynolds stepped in as the second batter of the inning and lifted a two-run home run over the wall in left. It was the first of his collegiate career and first of the season for the Yeomen.
 
Once again the Knights wouldn't go away quietly as they would make it 7-6 game in the sixth, but in the home-half of the stanza sophomore Quin Butler came through by providing a pair of all important insurance runs as he blasted an RBI triple to left and would score on the play due to an error as the shortstop sent the ball into the Yeomen dugout as he tried to cut down Butler at third.
 
Sklar, who came on in relief of Julian Sawhill in the sixth, was looking to lock down the two-inning save, but the Knights had other ideas. A single and two hit batters had Sklar in a jam. An infield single with the bases loaded cut the cushion down to two, but Sklar got Shaukat to hit into an unorthodox game-ending double play with an inconsequential run scoring on the play.
 
Sawhill got the win as he tossed 1.2 innings, allowing two hits, one walk and one unearned run.
 
The Yeomen will be right back in action tomorrow as the Yeomen tangle with NAIA member Hastings College (Neb.) at 10 a.m. MST / 1 p.m. EDT.