Crawfordsville, IN – The Oberlin College baseball team led 6-0 in the fourth inning only to see the lead evaporate away as the Wabash College Little Giants rallied to win 13-6 on Saturday.
 
Oberlin starter Vince Dolcemaschio (1-5) cruised through the front three innings, but the Little Giants bats would start to come alive in the fourth inning as he ultimately got touched up for seven earned runs on 10 hits and three hit batters over 5-plus innings of work.
 
Unfortunately, the Yeomen bullpen didn't fare much better as Luigi Smarro and Zachary Ritts combined to surrendered six runs (five earned) over 2.1 innings.
 
The Yeomen got off to a great start, scoring three runs over the first two innings courtesy of a Max Anastasio sac fly in the opening frame and a two-run opposite field single to left from Jake Blozy.
 
Oberlin would add on three more runs in the fourth as Blozy came through once again with a two-RBI single back up the box to score Max Cairo and John Schooner. Blozy would later race home on a first-and-third double steal play to make it 6-0.
 
However, everything would unravel for the Yeomen from that point as the Little Giants pounded out seven hits over the next two innings off Dolcemaschio to trim the Oberlin cushion down to just one.
 
The wheels would completely come off in the sixth as the first two hitters would reach to chase Dolcemaschio from the game and Smarro had no answers in slowing down the Little Giants as they went on to score six times in the inning, which featured four hits, an error, a walk, and a hit batter.
 
The Yeomen, who finished with eight hits, had just one following the barrage of runs as Wabash never looked back.
 
Blozy ended 2-for-4 with four RBIs, while Harry Kaplan also had a pair of hits in the loss.
 
The Yeomen and Little Giants will do it all over again tomorrow morning with first pitch set for 1 p.m.