Oberlin, Ohio – Freshman Ian Dinsmore delivered a game-winning two-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to lift the Oberlin College baseball team to a thrilling 9-8 walk-off win over John Carroll University on Wednesday afternoon at Dill Field.
 
Dinsmore, a native of Cogan Station, Pennsylvania, went 3-for-4  with two RBI in the game to run his season average up to .377.
 
Senior catcher and co-captain Brian Hemmert also went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI, while Colin Brown and John Evans added two hits each towards the Yeomen's 14-hit attack.
 
The Yeomen jumped on the Blue Streaks early, scoring four runs on five hits in the bottom of the first.  Freshman Jake Reynolds plated the first pair of runs with a two-out single to center.  First-year Brendan Mapes would then send him across on a single through the left side before Brown followed with an RBI double to the gap in right center.
 
After cruising through the front two innings, junior left-handed starter Kyle Dominy ran into trouble in the third and a lot of it. The Blue Streaks, who belted out seven hits in the inning and sent 10 men to the plate, scored four runs before registering an out to chase Dominy from the game. They would go on to add three more in the inning to take a 7-4 lead with six of the runs put on Dominy's leger. Reliever Harrison Wollman surrendered the final tally of the frame.
 
However, the Yeomen fought back to get him off the hook and work their way back into the game. In the home-half of the fourth the first two Yeomen hitters would reach base and come around to score to shrink the gap to just one.  Hemmert had an RBI single and Justin Cruz, who extending his hitting streak to nine games, added a sac fly to make it 7-6.
 
Oberlin would go back out front, using three hits and an error in the seventh to plate another pair. Dinsmore would tie the game with a run-producing single to center and freshman classmate Isaac Goldman sent in the go-ahead run across the dish with an RBI groundout.
 
JCU would tie it in the eighth as an Oberlin throwing error on infield hit allowed the Blue Streaks to get back to even.
 
Milo Sklar, who entered the game in the seventh and pitched 1-2-3 inning, did the same in the ninth to set the stage for the walk-off heroics. Sklar worked three innings, allowing one hit, one walk and the one unearned run as he moved to 2-0 on the year.
 
The Yeomen ninth started with a single to center by Hemmert and Cruz moved him into scoring position with a sac bunt. Evans then hit one back up the middle that was knocked down by the pitcher for the second out.
 
Dinsmore, who now has eight RBI on the season, worked the count to 3-2 before sending the game-ending line drive to right.
 
After 17 games in 12 days, the Yeomen will have some time to rest up before they open conference play at home against Hiram College on April 9 at 12 p.m.