Tucson, AZ – The Oberlin College baseball dropped a heartbreaking 5-4 11-inning affair in game one and the Luther College Norse used the momentum to take game two by a 12-3 count.
 
The sweep by the Norse moved their record to 8-1 overall while the Yeomen dropped back to 5-9 and 5-7 on the trip.
 
It the bottom of the 11^th the Norse loaded the bases with one out against left-handed reliever Julian Sawhill. Sawhill had a full count to Mitch Knippenberg and threw borderline pitch at the top of the zone with the call going in favor of the Norse to send the game-winning run across the dish.
 
The game was tied 3-3 through five complete innings, but the Yeomen would finally end the stalemate in the top of the 10^th as senior Blaise Dolcemaschio came through with a clutch two-out opposite-field double down the left field line to score John Evans.
 
Milo Sklar, who came on in the sixth and shut down the Norse for the previous four innings, had Luther down to their final strike in the bottom of the 10^th as he got ahead of Bryce Hingst 1-2, but he battled back into the count and sent Sklar's 3-2 pitch down the left field line to once again tie the game at 4-4.
 
Oberlin had a chance in the ninth go by the wayside as Darren Zaslau led off the inning with a triple, but he was erased at home plate as he was running on contact on a ground ball to the second, which effectively short-circuited the inning.
 
The Yeomen and Norse traded runs in the first with Dolcemaschio scoring Justin Cruz with a single through right side.
 
The same thing happened in the third as senior catcher Brian Hemmert belted his first-career home run over the wall in left center to make it 2-1, but Luther answered right back in the home half of the inning.
 
In the fifth the Yeomen took advantage of a Norse error to go ahead 3-2 in the top of the frame, but Oberlin returned the favor as Luther used just one hit, an error and sac fly to tie the game at 3-3.
 
Macabe Camps got the start on the mound and worked the front four innings, allowing just three hits and two earned runs. He walked two and struck out two.
 
The Yeomen used three different relievers in the fifth with Nicholas Morgan, Joe Greenberg and Noah Gear each working a third of an inning.
 
Sklar had his longest outing of the season, throwing 93 pitches in his five innings of work, 59 of which were strikes. He surrendered just three hits, while walking three and striking out three.
 
In the backend of the twinbill the Norse took advantage of two Yeomen errors to score three runs in the top of the first inning. The miscues were part of six Oberlin mistakes in the game.
 
The Yeomen got a single tally back in the home half of the inning on Isaac Goldman's two-out run scoring single.
 
However, the Norse would go to post three runs in the third and before adding single tallies in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. They would cap their scoring with a three-run seventh.
 
Oberlin's other two runs in the game came in the bottom of the fourth as Cruz lifted his first-career home run over the wall in left field.
 
The Yeomen will be back in action tomorrow at 1 p.m. MST / 4 p.m. against Hamline University.