Series Stats vs. Allegheny (PDF)

Meadville, PA – The Oberlin College baseball can't get out of Meadville, Pennsylvania, fast enough as the Allegheny College Gators swept the four-game series against the Yeomen, winning by the scores of 9-6 and 7-4 on Sunday afternoon.
 
With NCAC Crossover Series seeding on the line, the Yeomen dropped all the way back to fourth in the NCAC East after entering the weekend in second place. They have now dropped six in a row and seven of their last eight to fall back to 13-20 and 5-7 in league play.
 
The Gators took a stranglehold on second place in the East Division, as they are now 8-4 in conference action and 16-12 overall.
 
The Yeomen defense let them down in game one as five Oberlin miscues turned into seven unearned runs for the Gators.
 
Sophomore sidearmer Milo Sklar was ultimate victim of the sloppy play as he took the loss despite allowing just two earned runs in the complete-game effort. He fell back to 3-2 on the season after allowing eight hits and five walks.
 
Oberlin was clinging to a 4-2 lead, but everything came unraveled in the home-half of the fifth as the Gators scored five runs in the inning on two hits, two Yeomen errors and a walk. Joe Killian had a two-run double to tie it and Jacob Shick followed with a gut-wrenching two-out three-run home run to give the Gators the lead for good.
 
The Yeomen tried to battle back as Quin Butler belted a two-run home run in the sixth for his first-career long ball to get Oberlin back within one.
 
However the Gators first two hitters in the sixth reached on an error and a walk and they would both come around to score to add on some big insurance runs.
 
Junior Brian Carney, who hit his first-career home run in the top of the first to stake the Yeomen to an early 1-0 lead, had a two-out single in the seventh, but the Yeomen never threatened.
 
After Carey's round-tripper the Gators posted single tallies in each of the first and second innings before the Yeomen went back out in front with a three-run third. Darren Zaslau and Justin Cruz each had singles and then sophomore Sam Harris would follow with a run-scoring single of his own that tied the game at 2-2. Carney, who went 3-for-4 in the game, sent a single to right before Blaise Dolcemaschio followed with a sac fly to center. Harris would late steal home to cap the frame's scoring.
 
Robert Julian scattered nine hits and did not walk a batter as he went six innings on the bump to move to 1-2. Patrick Orr worked the seventh to lock down his second save.
 
In the nightcap both teams would trade a pair of runs in the first inning. Dolcemaschio had an RBI groundout and freshman Ian Dinsmore had an opposite-field two-out RBI single to right to score Carney.  However, Killian answered back with a two-run single to center off Yeomen left-handed starter Kyle Dominy.
 
In the second the Yeomen would retake the lead on a two-out RBI single to left by  Harris, but the Gators responded with solo runs in the third and fourth innings to take the lead for good.  In the fourth a throwing error allowed the go-ahead run to score – it was one of seven Oberlin errors on the day.
 
In the sixth the Gators made it a 5-3 game, but the Yeomen cut the deficit in half in the seventh as Cruz had a two-out RBI single back up the box, but he was later gunned down at third to end the inning.
 
Allegheny answered back with two key insurance runs in the seventh and the Yeomen never threatened in the eighth or ninth.
 
Dominy went 5.2 innings after getting touched up for 10 hits, five runs (four earned) and two walks. He struck out just one. The Gators also had four more hits and plated a pair off rookie reliever Noah Gear in 1.1 innings of work.
 
Harris and Dolcemaschio each had two hits in the game for the Yeomen as they accounted for half of the team's eight.
 
The Yeomen will try to regroup next weekend when they welcome The College of Wooster to town for a key league series.