Westfield, IN – The Oberlin College baseball team opened up a three-game weekend series against the Calvin College Knights (MI) on a blistering cold afternoon at Grand Park where the Yeomen fell, 13-3, in seven innings as the game was called due to the extreme temperatures.
In his first collegiate start, freshman right-hander
Vince Dolcemaschio cruised through the front three innings unscathed after being staked to a 3-0 lead in the first. However, the Knights would come alive in the fourth inning, using eight hits and an Oberlin error to post nine runs on the board in the frame.
The nightmare of an inning started with two singles with a hit-by-pitch sandwiched in the middle to load the bases with nobody out. A sac fly and two more singles plated four runs for the Knights and ultimately chased Dolcemaschio from the game.
Unfortunately, sophomore reliever
Zachary Bayfield was unable to stop the bleeding as the Knights' Quinn Hyndiuk greeted him by belting a two-run triple to center. Jeremy Clark (1) and Caden Penn (2) also had RBI hits before the inning mercifully came to an end.
For the second game in a row the Yeomen got on the board first, taking advantage of two Calvin errors and two hits in the home half of the first inning. After
Alexis Castillo reached on an error,
Jacob Thompson roped an opposite-field double to right field to put two runners in scoring position with two outs. Knights' second baseman Andrew Hung would then have trouble with a ball off the bat of
Parker Goldstein to allow both runners to score. Sophomore
David Fineman would follow with his third hit of the season, scoring Goldstein with a single to center.
Unfortunately, the Yeomen bats would go as cold as the weather was outside as they mustered just one hit the rest of the way. Calvin's senior right-hander Trevor VanDuyn stymied the Yeomen hitters throughout the contest as he allowed just one walk, three hits, and three unearned runs while striking out eight.
The Knights would score two more runs in each of the sixth and seventh innings to cap the game's scoring.
The two foes will finish their series tomorrow afternoon with a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.
