Greencastle, IN – The Oberlin College baseball team earned its first conference split of the season, winning game two at DePauw University, 6-1, after dropping the lid-lifter, 8-1.
 
After missing the first four conference games with an injury, senior shortstop Sam Harris returned to the lineup and had two hits, two RBIs, and a walk on the day to go along with a stolen base. Sophomore Amari Newman drove in a team-high three RBIs as he had two hits, including a double and a run scored.
 
In the nightcap the score was tied 1-1 until the Yeomen bats finally came to life in the top of the ninth, scoring five runs on four hits and an error. Senior Milo Sklar drove in the go-ahead run with a pinch-hit RBI single to left field to score Brendan Mapes. Newman would later follow with a two-run single to plate Sklar and Quin Butler, while Harris would tack on two more insurance runs with an opposite-field single to right field to cap the game's scoring.
 
Sklar, who came on in relief in the sixth inning, sat down the Tigers in order in the home half of the ninth to preserve the Yeomen's first league win of the season. The Brooklyn, New York, native earned the victory after going four scoreless innings, that saw him allow just one hit and one walk while striking out three.
 
Junior starter Noah Gear was also effective as he sprinkled six hits, a walk, and a run through the front five innings.
 
Oberlin manufactured a run in the top of the first on a first-and-third double steal play where Maxx McGee raced across the dish, while Butler took second.
 
The first two Tiger hitters would reach off of Gear to start the sixth and chase him from the game. The traffic resulted in DePauw tying the game on a sac fly to center.

Mapes, who had his eight-game hitting streak snapped in game one, had two hits in the game.
 
The Yeomen mustered just four hits in game one as Tigers' starter Grant Rademacher had them baffled for six innings as he gave up just one hit and three walks while fanning five. The Yeomen did get three hits off of reliever Nick Casey over the final three innings but managed to post just one run along the way as he locked down the save for DePauw.
 
Yeomen starter Zachary Steer suffered his second straight loss as the Tigers plated a pair in the second before adding a single tally in the fifth. Steer would ultimately depart after 5.1 innings, allowing just four hits and two walks to accompany the three runs scored. The Concord, Massachusetts, native kept the Yeomen within striking distance as he fanned five along the way.
 
It was just a 3-0 game heading into the eighth, but the Tigers put the game away for good with five runs in the inning.
 
Oberlin's lone run of the game came in the ninth on a double by Newman that scored pinch runner Jack Derwin.
 
The Yeomen are back in action next Saturday at Wittenberg University. First pitch of game one is set for 12 p.m.