Tucson, AZ – The Oberlin College baseball team suffered a pair of losses on Sunday afternoon, falling 8-6 to Wesleyan University before succumbing to a 10-0 seven-inning loss to Buena Vista.
 
The setbacks drop the Yeomen to 3-7 on the year and 1-3 on the trip. The loss to the Beavers marked their second shutout of the season as the team has now scored two runs or less in five of the 10 games thus far.
 
The Yeomen offense did show signs of life late against Cardinals, plating two runs in the ninth during their comeback bid. Oberlin trailed 8-4 heading into the final frame, but put the pressure on the Wesleyan bullpen in the ninth. Junior Ian Dinsmore dropped in a bases-loaded single to score pinch runner Ben Reed and Amari Newman would follow with a two-out run-producing single up the middle that sent Quin Butler across the dish after he got aboard with a double.
 
With the bases still loaded and the game-tying run just 180 feet away, Cardinals reliever Ryan Earle was able to induce the game-ending out to preserve the win.
 
Oberlin trailed 2-1 through three innings as Milo Sklar drove in Oberlin's first run with an infield single. Unfortunately, the Cardinals would answer back with five runs in the third to create some separation.
 
The Yeomen chipped away at the lead by scoring two in the sixth on a sacrifice fly to centerfield by Brendan Mapes and on a two-out RBI single through the left side by first-year Lawrence Hamilton.
 
Each team would post a single tally in the eighth with the Yeomen run coming courtesy of Hamilton's single to center that sent Mapes home.
 
Cardinals' starter Alec Olmstead went six innings as he pitched around seven walks to hold the Yeomen to just three runs and three hits. Junior starter Jack Reiss took the loss for the Yeomen.
 
The Yeomen offense couldn't string anything together against the Beavers and starter Egan Bonde as he scattered seven hits without issuing a walk in the complete-game victory.
 
Buena Vista led 4-0 after three and would tack on five more runs over the next two innings en route to tallying 17 hits in the game.
 
Junior Andrew Sugarman hit a double that short-hopped the wall in left in the seventh for his first-career hit.
 
The Yeomen are back in action tomorrow as they take on Hamline University at 12 p.m. MST and Carroll University at 3:30 p.m. MST.