Crawfordsville, IN – The Oberlin College baseball team dropped a 17-12 slugfest in game one at Wabash College before falling 6-5 in extra innings in the nightcap on Easter Sunday. 

Things started off great in game one as the Yeomen wasted no time jumping all over the Little Giants as Brendan Mapes, Lawrence Hamilton, and Alexis Castillo each roped a double off of Wabash sophomore starter Kase Lawson. Thompson would follow with a run-scoring single back up the box to make it a 3-0 Yeomen advantage in the top of the first inning.  He would ultimately be staked to a 4-0 cushion before taking the mound in the bottom of the first. 

After a shutdown inning by Thompson, the Yeomen would pick up right where they left off in the second as Jack Derwin led off with a double down the left field line and came around to score on a single to left by Mapes. Following a deep fly out by Hamilton, Lawson was lifted from the game and Castillo would promptly welcomed relief pitcher Logan Butrum with a two-run double down the right field line to make it a 7-0 Oberlin lead. 

Wabash would get three runs back on one swing of the bat in the home half of the second as Erich Lange lifted a three-run home run over the wall in left center. However, it could have been much worse for Thompson and the Yeomen as the bases were left loaded thanks to a tremendous running catch in left field by Jack Marsjanik. 

Unfortunately, the game would completely unravel for the Yeomen in the third as the Little Giants erupted for seven runs in the inning on three walks, two hit batters, and five base hits. The Yeomen used four pitches in the inning before it mercifully came to end but not before Wabash erased Oberlin's 7-0 lead to take a 10-7 lead. 

The Yeomen deficit would balloon to five as the Little Giants tacked on two more in the fifth before Oberlin got a pair back in the top of the sixth on a sac fly by Mapes and jam-job RBI single by Hamilton. 

Oberlin would turn to senior southpaw Zachary Steer in the bottom of the sixth to try and stop the Wabash barrage and keep the Yeomen within striking distance. However, he was unable to do so as three straight singles were followed with a bases-clearing double by Lange that swelled the lead to 15-9. 

Oberlin went into the ninth trailing 17-9 and would find a way to score three runs in the inning but it was too little too late to have an impact on the final result. Ben Reed and Parker Goldstein each had RBI singles in the frame before Reed scored the game's final run on a wild pitch. 

The two foes combined for 35 hits in the game, with Oberlin pounding out 16 of them. The Yeomen also sent out eight of the 13 pitchers used in the contest. Kotaro Kajita (1-2) took the loss in relief of Thompson. Butrum steadied the ship for Wabash as he allowed just five hits and two runs over 4.1 innings of relief to move to 2-0 on the year. 

Mapes led off the nightcap with a single through the right side and three walks would follow to plate the game's first run. However, the inning was quickly short-circuited as a Castillo was picked off at second in-between a pair of Yeomen strikeouts as they settled for just one run. 

Wabash would even the count at 1-1 in the home half of the third as Jackson Blevins delivered a two-out RBI single through the left side. 

Yeomen senior starter Ian Dinsmore would run into more trouble in the fourth as the Little Giants used three hits and a sac fly to grab a 3-1 lead. 

The Oberlin fifth started with back-to-back walks and the Yeomen would ultimately make Wabash pay for those free passes as Thompson rapped a two-run single to left to tie the game at 3-3 and chase Wabash starter Tyler Dearing from the game. 

In the top of the sixth, the Yeomen would take the lead back when Mapes delivered a clutch two out hit to plate Marsjanik who led off the inning with a single into center. Unfortunately for the team in gray, the Little Giants would respond with two runs of their own in the home half. 

The Yeomen would get one run back in the seventh as Connor MacDowell hit a sac fly to right to score Thompson and tie the game at 5-5. 

Oberlin's bats went cold the rest of the game, but Thompson forced extra innings with his arm in the bottom of the ninth. Matthew Annee's singled into right, but the rookie threw a bullet from right field and Mapes laid the tag on  Blevins to send the game into extras.

Unfortunately, Oberlin could not use the momentum from the big play by Thompson to create any offense in extras. Wabash continued to threaten and Austin Simmer's RBI single in the 10th completed the sweep for the Little Giants.  

Noah Gear would take the loss in reliefof Dinsmore. Gear pitched the final four innings, allowing two runs, with both Yeomen pitchers combining for five strikeouts. 

At the plate, Mapes was 4-for-8 on the day with three RBI's. The senior is hitting .459 on the season with 23 RBI's and three homers. 

Oberlin heads home at 12-15 overall and 4-8 in the NCAC while Wabash moved to 17-14 and 5-6 in league action.

Oberlin is back in action on Wednesday for a single nine-inning game at John Carroll University. First pitch is set for 4 p.m.