Series Stats vs. Kenyon (4 Games)

Gambier, Ohio – The Oberlin College baseball team finished on the wrong side of a 2-1 decision in game one, but bounced back to earn a 6-4 victory over the Kenyon College Lords in the nightcap to earn a series split on Sunday afternoon.
 
The 2-2 series result puts the Yeomen at 4-2 in the NCAC East with a doubleheader against Hiram on the horizon for Tuesday afternoon at Dill Field. Overall Oberlin is now 12-13. Kenyon rest at 6-4 in league action and has an 18-9 mark overall.
 
Senior co-captain Blaise Dolcemaschio led the offensive attack in the victory has he was 3-for-5 with two doubles, a triple and two RBI. Junior Darren Zaslau also went 2-for-4 with a run scored. The Yeomen used seven different pitchers in the game with rookie Noah Gear earning his first-career win as he tossed two innings of scoreless relief.
 
Oberlin plated a pair in the top of the first as Ian Dinsmore lifted a sac fly to right field before Dolcemashchio sent him home with a triple to the gap in right center.
 
The Lords would even the score in the bottom of the second and the two foes would trade single tallies in the third to make it a 3-3 game. The Oberlin run came courtesy of Dinsmore's second sac fly of the game with this one going to center.
 
Oberlin would go on top for good in the fourth as Zaslau stole home on a first-and-third double steal play. OC would add one more in the fifth on a sac fly to left by freshman Jake Reynolds.
 
Meanwhile the Yeomen bullpen continued its strong series as Gear (2), Julian Sawhill, and Ben Lovett worked innings four through seven, combining to allow just three hits and one unearned run.
 
Dolcemaschio's RBI double down the right field line made it a 6-3 game in the seventh, but the Lords got back within two thanks to an error in the home-half of the inning.
 
After Joe Greenberg got one out on the eighth, the Yeomen turned things over to sophomore Milo Sklar to shut the door. He would do just that by striking out two and leaving two Lords stranded on base.
 
Sklar, who appeared in four of the Yeomen's six games this week, then pitched around a lead-off walk and an error in the ninth to secure his second save of the series and third of the season.
 
In the opener, a costly Oberlin error in the bottom of the sixth proved to be the difference.
 
Much like yesterday's game one, the Lords and Yeomen were locked in a pitchers' dual with the score tied 1-1. The bottom of sixth inning starting with a single and strikeout, but Mikey Arman stole second to move into scoring position and pinch runner John Nahra would come around to score on an error.
 
Oberlin would go in order in the top of the seventh as Jesse Bogacz earned the complete-game victory to move to 3-1. He struck out 13 Yeomen, walked just three and surrendered five hits.
 
Despite all of that, the Yeomen did have their chances as they stranded 11 runners in the game.
 
Southpaw starter Kyle Dominy went 4.1 innings, scattering six hits and just one earned run before giving way to Sklar who took the loss despite allowing just one hit in 1.2 innings of work. He is now 3-1 on the year.
 
Kenyon used two hits to take a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second and the lone Yeomen run of the game would come in the top of the third as freshman Brendan Mapes rapped a two-out RBI single to right center to score Brian Carney.
 
Oberlin will have a short turnaround, as it will conclude its four-game set with Hiram College on Tuesday afternoon at Dill Field. Game one the twinbill is set for 1 p.m.