Tucson, AZ - Max Cairo and Jacob Thompson combined for six hits and Ty Weatherspoon struckout 10 to help the Oberlin College baseball team to an 8-6 victory over the Caltech Beavers on Tuesday afternoon at the Kino Sports Complex. 

A sophomore from Amherst, Ohio, Weatherspoon earned his first-career win as he sprinkled nine hits and three walks over five innings of work.

Six of the Yeomen's 12 hits in the game went for extra bases, headlined by a pair of triples from Thompson. 

Caltech pushed across a run in each of the first two innings to claim the early lead but the Yeomen would respond with single tallies of their own in the third and fourth frames to even the affair. It was sophomore leadoff hitter Jake Blozy who plated Oberlin's first run of the game with an RBI triple that short-hopped the wall in right. Cairo's single to left in the fourth would tie the game as Thompson was able to walk home from third after he started the inning with a triple down the left field line. 

Oberlin would break the game open with six runs on five hits in the fifth inning with all of the damage coming after two men were out. Senior Yianni Gardner got the rally rolling with an RBI double to the gap in left center. After a single by Max Anastasio scored another run, Thompson delivered a run-scoring triple to the corner in left field once again. The barrage continued with an RBI double from Ethan Hurwitz before Cairo took a page out of Thompson's book with a run-producing triple of his own and he would later come in to score on a wild pitch to make it 8-2. 

However, the Beavers didn't go away quietly as Thorsen Kristufek led off the bottom of the fifth with a home run. Weatherspoon would get into some more trouble as well as the Beavers loaded the bases but he would bear down to punchout Edward Speer to conclude his outing. 

The Beavers would continue to chip away at the Oberlin lead, getting another run off of relief pitcher Alexander Norris in the sixth but he too would get a key strikeout with the bases loaded to limit the damage. Also aiding the Yeomen's cause in the inning was a key backpick at third base by catcher John Schooner, erasing what would have been another run for Caltech. 

A Will Dembski homer in the seventh tightened the gap even more before Gautam Chawla came through with a two-out RBI single to center in the eighth. 

However, Luigi Smarro was nails in the ninth as he locked down his second save of the year with a 1-2-3 inning, inducing a pair of flyball outs before striking out Kristufek to end the game. It was just the second time in the game Caltech went down in order as they stranded 15 runners on base in the loss.

Oberlin will be idle tomorrow before returning to action on Thursday against Carleton. First pitch is set for 1:30 p.m. MST / 4:30 p.m. EDT.