Oberlin, Ohio - The Oberlin College baseball team went into Tuesday's game against Muskingum University on a four-game winning streak, while the Muskies entered on a five-game slide but Oberlin's run of success came to a crashing halt as the Muskies roughed up the Yeomen 23-2 in seven innings. 

Oberlin pitching issued 20 free bases in the loss as six hurlers combined for 16 walks and four hit batters. The Yeomen defense was also sloppy throughout, committing four errors along the way. 

Calvin Burkholder (1-1) made his first-career start and saw his pitch count get driven up early with multiple quality at-bats from the Muskies. Three Oberlin errors across the first two innings allowed Muskingum to score three unearned runs and it would only get worse from there for the Yeomen. 

After a five-run fifth inning to make it 8-0, the Muskies would go on to score 14 runs in the fifth on just four hits as the Yeomen walked nine and hit three batters in the inning. 

Oberlin had just five hits in the game with two coming courtesy of senior infielder Joe Strabley who got the Yeomen on the board in the fifth inning with an opposite field two-run home run over the wall in right for his first-career round-tripper. 

First-years Brady Groves and Kyle Baxt each delivered hits late to extend their season-opening hitting streaks to eight, while Harry Kaplan recorded the Yeomen's first hit of the game in the third inning to increase his streak to seven games. 

Max Vosters (1-0) got the win for the Muskies as he allowed just four hits over six innings while fanning three Oberlin hitters. 

The loss dropped the Yeomen back to 5-3 on the year while the Muskies head home at 5-6. 

The Yeomen will look to remove this sour taste for their mouths when they go right back to work tomorrow afternoon at Dill Field as the Otterbein University Cardinals come to town for a 3:30 p.m. clash.