Oberlin, Ohio – The Oberlin College baseball team didn't have enough fire power to contend with the 11
th-ranked Fighting Scots of Wooster as they came into Dill Field and roughed up the Yeomen by the scores of 18-2 and 17-2 in two seven-inning affairs on Tuesday afternoon.
Jack Marsjanik and
Brendan Mapes each went 3-for-6 on the day, while rookie
Jacob Thompson ended 3-for-7 as the trio accounted for nine of the Yeomen's 14 total hits in the twinbill.
In game one, a critical Oberlin error in the first inning turned what should have been a 2-0 lead for Wooster into a 4-0 cushion. The Yeomen would get one back in the first as Marsjanik delivered a two-out bases-loaded single through the left side to score Mapes after he led of the game with a single to right.
After neither team pushed one across in the second, the Scots would break the game open with a nine-run third before adding on three more in the fourth and solo tallies in the sixth and seventh.
The only other Oberlin run of the game came in the sixth as Marsjanik thumped his second home run of the season over the wall in right.
Senior
Musa Matiwane took the loss as he worked two-plus innings, allowing seven runs (five earned) on seven hits and two walks to fall back to 1-1 on the year.
Brian Murray (3-1) tossed the front six frames for the Scots, sprinkling seven hits and four walks in the winning effort.
In the nightcap the Scots scratched out one in the first before but the Yeomen would get back to even in the home half of the second. Thompson led off the inning with a triple to right field and would race home on a sac fly to right by
Parker Goldstein.
The Scots' third started with another Yeomen miscue that set table for a three-run inning. The fourth was much of the same as a lead-off home run from Tyler Iversen was followed with another error to chase senior southpaw starter
Zachary Steer (1-3) from the game. In three-plus innings, Steer surrendered six runs (four earned) on six hits and two walks.
The fourth inning ended with three more Wooster runs on the board and they would go on to beat up the Yeomen bullpen for 10 more over the next three innings.
Oberlin's only other run of the game came in the fifth when Mapes belted his third home run of the season and 12
th of his career.
Evan Faxon got the win for Wooster as he allowed two runs on just six hits and two walks in six innings of work.
The first conference sweep for the Yeomen dropped them back to 4-6 in league play and 12-13 in the NCAC. The Scots improved to 17-6 and a percent 8-0 in the conference.
Oberlin is back in action on Saturday afternoon at Wabash College. First pitch of game one is set for 12 p.m.