New Wilmington, PA - The Oberlin College baseball team split a doubleheader at Westminster College on Saturday afternoon, dropping game one 6-1 in seven innings before answering back with a 7-3 victory in the nightcap. 

Red-hot rookies Brady Groves and Kyle Baxt hit in each game to extend their career-opening hitting streaks to 11 games. 

The Yeomen pounded out 15 hits in the game-two victory with Groves posting a career-high four hits en route to notching his eighth multi-hit game of the season. 

Sophomore Liam Rose (1-1) registered his first-career win going seven strong innings, allowing just three runs while sprinkling 10 hits, one walk, and a strikeout along the way. Freshman Micah Rodriguez fanned four and did not give up a hit over the final two innings. 

The Yeomen posted single tallies in each of the first two innings as Baxt had RBI infield single in the first and it was Groves who drove in the Yeomen's run with two outs in the second as he beat out an infield hit to first base that allowed Sean Livingstone to score. 

Oberlin would claim a 4-0 lead in the top of the fourth on Groves' two-out, two-run single to center but not be out done was his classmate Baxt, who also drove in a pair in the fifth to make it a 6-0 Yeomen advantage. 

After the Titans responded with two runs of their own in the home half of the fifth, the Yeomen would get one back in the sixth as Harry Kaplan plated fellow Joe Strabley after he got aboard via a one-out triple. 

Westminster would get a single tally in the bottom of the sixth, but after Rose shut them down in the seventh, Rodriguez finished off the victory in commanding fashion to halt the Yeomen's three-game slide. 

Groves drove in three runs as did Baxt who finished with two hits in the win. Kaplan, who has hit in nine of the 10 games he has played in, was 3-for-4 with an RBI and a double, while Livingstone and Strabley each had two hits as well. 

The Yeomen mustered just five hits in the lid-lifter as Titans' senior Kolton Banfi went all seven innings, throwing just 66 pitches to accompany his three strikeouts and zero walks. 

Oberlin scratched out a single tally in the first inning as freshman Grayson Black poked an RBI single through he right side in his first collegiate at-bat that plated Groves but little did anyone know at the time that would be the final Oberlin run of the game. 

Senior Jay Aghanya got the start on the bump but was lifted after just three innings and 62 pitches as he works his way back to full strength from preseason arm trouble. The Herdon, Virginia, native allowed just one hit and struck out three while walking four but did not allow a run. 

Unfortunately, the Titans greeted senior reliever William Kennedy rather rudely as he got roughed up for four runs on six hits in the fourth inning. 

Westminster would add on two more off of rookie reliever Davis Hayes over the final two innings but it did not matter as the Yeomen hitters were unable to solve the Rubik's cube of Banfi. 

Oberlin (6-5) will conclude its busy weekend with a single nine-inning match-up at Allegheny College on Sunday.