Oberlin, Ohio - It was a disappointing day at the ballpark for the Oberlin College baseball team as the visiting Hiram College Terriers came into town and swept a doubleheader from the Yeomen, winning 6-2 and 9-6. 

The Oberlin offense slept-walked through the first game, finally getting on the board at the bottom of the ninth inning. Kyle Baxt, Anton Shelton, and Harry Kaplan each had two hits but it wasn't enough. 

Shelton's single to center plated Nik Mezzonte for Oberlin's first run and Shelton would later score on Kaplan's seeing-eye single through the right side to give Yeomen a glimmer of hope but it was too little too late. 

Liam Rose (1-3) and Jacob Koces (2-2) were locked up in a pitcher's duel through the front three innings, but the Terrirers would get to him in the fourth with a pair of homers, which came courtesy of Matthew Trimble and Evan Fairbanks to make it 3-0. 

Hiram would add on in the fifth as Tyler Fernandez dropped in a back-breaking jam-job single with two outs that swelled the lead out to 5-0. Trimble would tack on another RBI single in the ninth to cap the Hiram scoring. 

Rose took the loss after tossing five innings, allowing five runs on six hits and three walks to accompany his five strikeouts. Koces was impressive for Hiram as he scattered seven hits over 7.1 innings, going walk-free while fanning six. 

The two foes combined for 27 hits in the nightcap with 13 coming courtesy of the Yeomen. Baxt, Ethan Hurwitz, Mezzonte, and Zach Masnikoff each had two. 

After Hiram posted a pair in the top of the first, Brady Groves led off the home half of the first inning and belted his first-career home run over the wall in right to cut the lead in half. 

Oberlin would go out in front in the second inning as Hurwitz roped a two-run double into right and Baxt followed with a run-scoring single to make it a 4-2 Yeomen advantage.

A critical Yeomen error allowed two unearned runs to score in the fourth but the Yeomen would reclaim the lead in the bottom half of the inning as Masnikoff lifted his first-career home run over the wall in right. 

Unfortunately, the lead was short-lived as Hiram scratched out a run in the fifth on a sac fly by Fernandez and then would take the lead for good on another sac fly in the sixth, capitalizing on three walks and a hit batter in the inning. 

It was still just a one-run game entering the ninth but freshman reliever Micah Rodriguez ran out of gas as the Hiram tacked on three big insurance runs. 

Oberlin fought to the bitter end, sending the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the ninth but the game would end on a strikeout with the bases loaded. The Yeomen would get a run in the inning on a bases-loaded swinging bunt single from Sean Livingstone. 

The outcomes dropped the Yeomen back to 11-11 on the year and 1-3 in the NCAC. 

Oberlin will look to get back on track on Saturday as it welcomes DePauw University to town for a noon double-dip.