Meadville, PA - The Oberlin College baseball team finished on the wrong end of a gut-wrenching 11-inning 8-7 loss at Allegheny College on a marathon Sunday afternoon with the game taking over four hours to complete. 

After the first two Allegheny hitters reached base in the bottom of the 11th, Oberlin senior reliever Andrew Shen picked up a pair of outs but junior Tyson Bryant-Dawson would ultimately send Shen's 0-2 offering back up the middle to give the Gators the walk-off victory.

With the two teams tied at 6-6 through nine innings, each side posted a single tally in the 10th. David Curtin, who finished a career-high 4-for-5 with three RBIs and two runs scored, delivered a two-out go-ahead double to left center to score Ethan Hurwitz. Unfortunately, the Gators would get back to even in the home half of the inning when Shen hit Brady Nolin with the bases loaded on a pitch where Nolin stuck out his padded elbow to pick up the game-tying RBI. 

Freshman Grayson Black led off the 11th with a double but was erased trying to advance to third on a ground ball to shortstop, which effectively short-circulated any Yeomen threat and set the table for the Gators' walk-off win. 

Oberlin grabbed a 2-0 advantage in the top of the second on Curtin's two-run home run over the wall in left to mark the first round-tripper of his career.

The Gators would answer back by combining for five runs over the third and fourth innings off Oberlin senior hurler Justin Fuls who departed after the fourth inning, allowing five hits and five walks to go along with three strikeouts. 

The Yeomen posted a pair of their own in the fourth inning, getting a two-out RBI single from senior Joe Strabley while Anton Shelton would later come home on an Allegheny error. 

It would remain a 5-4 Allegheny lead until Oberlin would go back out in front in the top part of the seventh. The first two hitters of the inning would reach base and the heart of the order would come through as Hurwitz and Kyle Baxt delivered back-to-back RBI singles. 

Unfortunately, the Yeomen could not make the lead stand-up as the Gators took advantage of three hits and two Oberlin errors in the eighth to even the affair at 6-6. Allegheny did get a one-out double in the ninth as they threatened to win it in regulation but Yeomen reliever Luigi Smarro was able to retire the next two Allegheny hitters he faced to keep the game at a stalemate. 

Both teams finished with 14 hits with Brady Groves (2) and Baxt (2) joining Curtin with multi-hit efforts. The rookie duo has now had at least one hit in each of their first 12 games of their respective Oberlin careers with Groves now having nine multi-hit games and Baxt with six. 

Bryant-Dawson (1-0), who had the game-winning hit, also got the win on the mound for Allegheny as he was one of the 23 different Gators to play in the game. 

The loss dropped Oberlin back to 6-6 on the year while Allegheny moved to 7-5. 

The Yeomen are back in action on Thursday afternoon at Capital University. First pitch is set for 4 p.m.