Berea, Ohio – The Oberlin College baseball team wrapped up a blistering cold weekend of action at Baldwin Wallace University by falling to the Defiance College Yellow Jackets 5-2 and the Alma College Scots 17-2 on Saturday afternoon.
 
The Yeomen offense produced 19 hits on the day with David Fineman, Brendan Mapes, Jacob Thompson, and Lawrence Hamilton producing three hits each for the Yeomen.
 
Defiance Recap
 
The Yellow Jackets opened the game by touching up Yeomen senior southpaw Zachary Steer for two runs on four hits in the top of the first inning.
 
Defiance would tack on single tallies in the second and fourth innings to increase the cushion out to 4-0.
 
The Yeomen would get on the board with a run in the sixth but they would leave three stranded. Hamilton got the inning going with a double to the gap in right-center and would then move to third on a single by Thompson before coming across the dish on a base hit to left by Fineman. Oberlin had the bases loaded with one out but failed to score more as the inning came to an end in dramatic fashion with rookie Ian Ashby flying out to the warning track in right-center as he nearly had a go-ahead grand slam.
 
The Yellow Jackets would add an insurance run in the seventh and Oberlin would answer with a run of their own in the home half when Thompson drove in Mapes with an opposite-field single to right.
 
Oberlin would threaten in the eighth but came up empty as James Kibitel singled up the middle but was later thrown out at the plate trying to score from first on Ashby's double to center that short-circuited a potential comeback bid.
 
Steer took the loss after allowing four runs on eight hits over the front five innings. He threw 101 pitches, logging six strikeouts, four walks, and three wild pitches along the way. Jack Reiss surrendered one run on three hits in two innings of work, while Stephen Kellner worked two scoreless innings as well.
 
Jon Brown sprinkled seven hits over 6.2 innings to earn the win, while Cohen Nies secured the save as he locked down the final seven outs for the Yellow Jackets.
 
Alma Recap
 
Two of the first three Scot hitters would homer in the top of the first as they quickly opened up a 3-0 lead before the Yeomen came to bat.
 
Oberlin would answer back in the bottom of the first as Mapes matched Jordan Anstandig's lead-off home run by starting the home-half of the inning with his second round-tripper of the year to make it 3-1.
 
The Scots would add another run in the top of the third and ended Thompson's day on the bump as he never came back out after getting touched up for seven hits, three walks, and four runs over 79 pitches of work. The rookie right-hander did register four punchouts along the way.
 
The Yeomen would cut the Alma lead in half in the home half of the fourth as Hamilton drove in Mapes with a single back up the box, but little did anyone know that it would mark the last Oberlin run of the game.
 
The Scots would go on to bombard the Oberlin bullpen with 13 runs over the final four innings before the game was called after the eighth inning due to time constraints.
 
Every player in the Alma lineup had at least one hit in the contest as they out-hit the Yeomen 19-9 in the contest.
 
The sweep drops Oberlin back to 2-3 on the year. The Yeomen are scheduled to return to action on Tuesday afternoon at home as they host Baldwin Wallace at 3 p.m.