Stats From the Trip (10 Games)

Tucson, AZ - The Oberlin College baseball team capped off a chilly day in Tucson, Arizona, earning a 15-4 win over the Williams College on Wednesday. The Yeomen also opened the day with an 8-2 loss to Lewis & Clark.

The split puts the Yeomen at 5-7 on the year and 5-5 on the trip with six more games still on the docket over the next three days before an Easter Sunday flight back home.

Junior Brian Carney speared headed the Yeomen at the plate as he went 8-for-9 on the day with two doubles to run his two-base hit total to a team-best six on the young season.

Senior Harrison Wollman got the start against the Ephs and earned his first win since April 30, 2014 when he beat Baldwin Wallace. The right-hander from Pacific Palisades, California, scattered seven hits, four runs, and four walks, but also struck out six. One of four senior co-captains, Wollman threw 102 pitches with 63 going for strikes.

The Yeomen staked Wollman to a 2-0 lead in the home half of the first inning as Carney, fresh off a 4-for-4 performance against Lewis & Clark, hit a seeing-eye single through the left side to score Justin Cruz. Colin Brown, who had his best game of the season at the plate going 3-for-4 with five RBI and two runs scored, would later get hit with a pitch with the bases loaded.

Wollman ran into some trouble in the third and fourth innings as the Ephs combined for six hits and scored two runs in each frame to go on top 4-2. However, the Yeomen would respond in a big way, posting five runs in the bottom of the inning.

Jack Brewster, who walked four times in the game, got aboard via the free pass and would come around to score John Evans' single to right center. Cruz continued to be locked in at the plate as he rapped a two-run line-dive double down the left line to put the Yeomen back out in front at 5-4. The rally didn't stop there as Carney sent an RBI single to right before freshman Ian Dinsmore made it a 7-4 Yeomen advantage with a sac fly to left.

With the lead in hand, Wollman would go on to allow just one hit in the fifth before completing his winning performance with a 1-2-3 sixth.

Oberlin would go on to tack on three more insurance runs in the sixth before erupting for five in the eighth. Brown had a big two-run single to center in the sixth and then knocked two-RBI double down the left field line in the eighth.

The eighth inning also featured senior Nathaniel Wehr's second hit in as many days he worked an 8-pitch at-bat before hitting a sharp line-drive single to right. Darren Zaslau, who came in as a defensive replacement the inning prior and took a hit away from the Nathan Micha, also had an RBI double. Oberlin has now beaten Williams in each of the last three seasons during spring break.

In the 8-2 loss to the Pionners, freshman Jack Reiss earned the start on the mound and cruised through the front three innings, retiring the first eight batters in order, but the Pioneers touched him up the second time through as he was ultimately dealt his second loss of the season. The right-hander worked 4.2 innings, allowing nine hits and eight runs, however, just half of those were earned. He was around the plate as 48 of his 72 pitches went for strikes.

The Yeomen offense had five hits through the first three innings, but only had one run to show for it. In the first, senior Blaise Dolcemaschio scored Cruz on a single to center, but Carney was gunned down at the plate trying to score from second on the play.

Pioneers' right-hander Bradley Bourdase settled in after the rocky start and ended up earning the complete-game victory as he surrendered just five hits after the first inning. He threw 125 pitches with 79 strikes.

In the fourth is when things turned sour for the Yeomen as a potential double play turned into an error and set the table for a four-run inning. Back-to-back triples plated three runs with the final tally of the frame coming across on a groundout.

Lewis & Clark followed with four more in the fifth, belting out five hits in the frame and taking advantage of two Yeomen errors on the same play to post the crooked number. The damage would have been limited to just a pair had the Yeomen been more clean on defense in the inning.

Bourdase continued to breeze through the Yeomen lineup as he also got some help from his defense with five double plays being turned behind him.

Oberlin tried to chip away in the eighth as Dolcemaschio plated Oberlin's second run on a sac fly, but a base running mistaken quickly short-circuited any chance of a threat.

The Yeomen will be back in action tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. MST / 2 p.m. as they take on Luther College in a doubleheader.