iOberlin, Ohio – The abbreviated 10-game season for the Oberlin College baseball team came to an end on Sunday afternoon as the Hiram College Terriers swept the Yeomen 6-3 and 18-7 at Dill Field.
 
Senior Lawrence Hamilton headlined the day for Oberlin, leading off game two with a home run for the 100^th hit of his career, reaching that plateau in just 84 games.
 
Joe Strabley and Jay Aghanya each had four hits on the day with the latter rookie added four RBIs as well.
 
After Hiram posted three runs in the top of the first, Oberlin would get one back on an intentional first-and-third play as Strabley got into a purposeful rundown to allow Hamilton to race in from third.
 
An unturned double play and another Yeomen error in the third allowed Hiram to plate two more runs but Oberlin continued to scratch its way back into the game. Aghanya had a two-out run-scoring double to center in the bottom of the inning and then in the fifth he would deliver again with a bases-loaded duck-snort single to score Strabley to trim the deficit down to two but the next two Yeomen hitters would pop out to leave three runners stranded.
 
After Hiram added an insurance tally in the top of the seventh, Oberlin would bring the tying run to the plate but the game would end on an unorthodox double play to preserve the win for the Terriers.
 
Pitching in the final game of his career, Kotaro Kajita tossed 5.2 innings in relief of starter Zachary Bayfield. Kajita impressed by allowed just one earned run (three total), on four hits and three walks to go along with two strikeouts.
 
The nightcap featured 34 hits, 25 runs, seven walks, and four errors between the two foes. Eight of the nine Oberlin starters had at least one hit with Strabley, Darien Knowles, Aghanya, James Kibitel, and Drew Packs registering two hits each that went towards Oberlin's team total of 13.
 
Oberlin led 2-0 after as after Hamilton's leadoff home run, Aghanya lifted a deep sacrifice fly to center. However, Hiram would post a single tally in the second before adding four in the third to take 5-2 lead.
 
The Yeomen would level the count in the home half of the third as David Fineman belted his first-career home run over the wall in left to cut the margin down to one before Packs poked a two-out RBI single to left to tie the game.
 
Unfortunately, the Yeomen momentum was short-lived as Hiram responded with five in the fourth and seven in the fifth to leave no doubt in the eventual outcome.
 
Aghanya had an RRBI groundout in the fourth and Packs had another run-producing single back up the box in the fifth but it was too little too late for the Yeomen.
 
Oberlin, which is desperately looking for the return of its full roster this fall, ends the season at 2-8 while Hiram improved to 10-28 with two games left on the schedule on May 8 against Ohio Wesleyan.