Oberlin, Ohio – Oberlin College and Denison University combined for 70 hits over 16 innings on Wednesday afternoon, but in the end it was the No. 13^th ranked Big Red who had more firepower as they outlasted the Yeomen 13-9 and 18-8 (7 inn.) on a warm day at Dill Field.
 
The Yeomen accounted for 29 hits in the twinbill with Ben Reed, Parker Goldstein, Lawrence Hamilton, and Alexis Castillo each finishing with four.
 
The Big Red posted six runs over the first three innings of game one but the Yeomen bats would come to life in the home half of the third, scoring seven runs on eight hits to go out in front 7-6. Hamilton got the Yeomen on the board with a line-drive three-run home run over the wall in right center which immediately cut the Big Red lead in half. Castillo and Jacob Thompson followed with back-to-back doubles before Jack Derwin came through with a clutch two-out two-run single back up the box to tie game at 6-6. He would later give Oberlin the lead, scoring on a first-and-third double steal play to cap off the seven-run barrage.
 
Unfortunately, the lead was short-lived as the shutdown inning eluded the Yeomen pitching staff throughout both games as Denison answered back with a four-run fourth to reclaim the lead at 10-7.
 
A critical Denison miscue in the field allowed two Yeomen runs to score in the fifth as pitcher Danny Brackman airmailed a throw into left field on a sac bunt that allowed Derwin and Goldstein to score to cut the deficit down to just one.
 
However, the Big Red bats would not quit as they scratched out another run in the sixth before adding on two insurance tallies in seventh.
 
The Yeomen hitters had roughed up Brackman for 13 hits over the first 4.1 innings but John Troll came in and cooled off their bats as he allowed just four hits the rest of the way en route to running his record to 6-0.
 
Oberlin, which had 17 hits in the game, were led by three each from Reed and Goldstein. Will Krushena and Ty Robinson guided the Big Red's 21-effort with four base-knocks each.
 
The Yeomen took the early lead in game two, scoring three runs in the bottom of the second inning as Brendan Mapes delivered a bases-loaded two-run single back up the middle before Hamilton posted another tally with an infield single to score Reed.
 
The Big Red were not deterred as they would respond with six runs off of Yeomen freshman starter Ian Ashby in the third. Denison would go on to break the game wide open by batting around in the third, fourth, and fifth innings while scoring 17 runs over that stretch.
 
Oberlin would continue to swing it as well but not quite to the same level. Jack Marsjanik plated a run on a sac fly in the third. Hamilton, who drove in five on the day, had an RBI single in the fourth to record his team-leading seventh multi-RBI game of the season. Castillo also scored a run on a groundout.
 
The Yeomen fifth featured a two-run home run from Marsjanik, which tied him for the team lead with three on the year.
 
Cam Farren and Brad Baldinger accounted for eight of Denison's 20 hits in the win as they each had four. Hamilton, Castillo, and Jack McGowan each had two hits to lead the Yeomen's 12-hit performance. Thompson also went 1-for-4 to extend his hitting streak to 12 games.
 
The Yeomen have now lost eight of their last 10 to fall back to 14-19 overall and 6-10 in the NCAC. The nationally ranked Big Red moved to 33-5 and 13-3 in league play.
 
Oberlin has a short turnaround as it host Otterbein tomorrow at 2 p.m.