Lexington, KY— The Oberlin College baseball team secured a series victory with a 9-7 triumph in game one, but the Asbury Eagles avoided a weekend sweep by topping the Yeomen 12-2 in seven innings in the Sunday night cap. 

Eight of the nine Oberlin starters had at least one hit in the game, headlined by rookie right fielder Brady Groves who went 3-for-3 with two doubles, two RBIs, and a walk. Ethan Hurwitz homered for the second time in the last three games as he finished with two extra-base hits and two RBIs. David Curtin belted a pair of doubles while senior Sean Livingstone also joined the multi-hit contingency as the Yeomen finished with 13 hits in the game. 

Both teams would trade single tallies in the first inning. Groves led off the game with a two-base hit and would then score on a sacrifice fly from Curtin. Oberlin would continue to add on in the second and third innings, first getting a pair in the second on Groves' two-out, two-run double. The lead would increase to 4-1 in the third when Nik Mezzanotte raced home on a first-and-third double steal. 

Oberlin took firm control of the game by scoring three runs on five hits in the top of the fifth inning. A two-RBI single from first-year Kyle Baxt sent Groves and Hurwitz across the dish and the rookie first baseman would later score on a double to left field by Curtin. 

Unfortunately, after cruising through the front four innings relatively unchallenged, senior right-hander Andrew Shen (1-1) ran into some trouble in the fifth as the Eagles erupted for five runs in the frame, using four hits and two walks to trim the gap down to just one at 7-6. Shen would depart after the rocky inning having allowed six runs and seven hits to go along with three walks and four strikeouts. 

The Yeomen would answer back in a big way as Hurwitz delivered a clutch two-run homer in the top of the sixth to increase their back out to three while collecting his third round-tripper of the season. 

Freshman reliever Davis Hayes (1) was impressive out of the Yeomen bullpen as he locked down his first-career save. The Eagles would push a run across against him in the sixth, but no Eagle would reach beyond second base over the final three innings to cap off the team's ninth win of the season. 

Groves, who now has 11 multi-hit games, saw his season-opening hitting streak halted at 15 games in game two, however, Baxt had one of the six Oberlin hits to run his stretch to 16 games but not much else went right for Oberlin. 

Sloppy defense and poor pitching execution resulted in five first-inning runs for the Eagles. It would only snowball from there as Asbury put three of their first four runners on base to start the third and posted single tallies in the third and fourth innings before leaving no doubt in the outcome with a four-run fifth. 

Oberlin's lone runs of the game came on a two-out, two-run single to center from Zach Masnikoff. 

The Yeomen committed a season-high six errors en route to falling back to 9-7 on the season.

Oberlin continues its spring break trip on Wednesday afternoon with a 5 p.m. battle at Maryville College (TN).