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Oberlin College Athletics

Kyle Baxt
Thomas Hill '24
4
Oberlin OBERLIN 14-21
14
Winner Denison DENISON 32-5
Oberlin OBERLIN
14-21
4
Final
14
Denison DENISON
32-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Oberlin OBERLIN 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 10 1
Denison DENISON 2 0 1 4 0 2 3 2 14 16 0

W: P. Lemke (7-0) L: Burkholder, Calvin (3-3)

2
Oberlin OBERLIN 14-22
12
Winner Denison DENISON 33-5
Oberlin OBERLIN
14-22
2
Final
12
Denison DENISON
33-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Oberlin OBERLIN 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 5 2
Denison DENISON 0 6 0 0 2 1 0 3 12 13 0

W: J. Rollo (4-1) L: Black, Grayson (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Bounced by No. 3 Big Red as Baxt Ties Single-Season Hits Record

Granville, Ohio - Oberlin College first-year Kyle Baxt tied the single-season school record for hits with 63, but the third-ranked Big Red of Denison lived up to their national billing, defeating the Oberlin College baseball team by the scores of 14-4 (8 Inn.) and 12-2 (8 Inn.) on Tuesday evening.

After going hitless in game one, Baxt poked an RBI single through the right side in the sixth inning of game two to tie Brendan Mapes '19 for the record. 

Oberlin posted double-digit hits in game one, marking its second straight game they did so, but had just four runs to show for it in both contests. 

Rookie right-hander Calvin Burkholder (3-3) got the start on the bump and battled his way through a potent Big Red lineup for 5.1 innings, allowing nine runs (eight earned) on eight hits, two walks, and three hit batters to accompany one strikeout. 

The Big Red plated a pair in the first inning and scratched out a single tally in the third before breaking the game open with a four-run fourth inning that featured four hits - three of which went for extra bases. 

The Yeomen would get on the board in the fifth inning as Anton Shelton and Joe Strabley led off the frame with back-to-back singles. Senior Harry Kaplan would send in Oberlin's first run on a groundout before freshman Brady Groves extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a two-out RBI single back up the middle that sent Strabley across the dish.

Oberlin would tack on single tallies in each of the next two innings, scoring on a first-and-third double steal in the sixth before Groves delivered a sacrifice fly in the seventh. Unfortunately, the Big Red would score seven runs over the final three innings to invoke the 10-run mercy rule after eight innings. 

The Yeomen had 10 hits in the lid-lifter with Groves, Shelton, Ethan Hurwitz, and David Curtin each accounting for two. 

In game two it was a six-run second inning that proved to be the Yeomen's ultimate undoing. The Big Red pounded out three doubles and a triple in the inning and also benefited from a walk and a hit batter. 

First-year Grayson Black made his second-career start in the nightcap and grinded his way through four innings and was rather sharp outside of the second inning. He left having given up eight runs (six earned) on seven hits and a walk to go along with three strikeouts. 

Oberlin trailed 8-0 going into the sixth and would get its first run on Baxt's record-setting hit that scored Kaplan. In the seventh, the Yeomen pushed another run across on an RBI groundout by rookie JT ​​Schoessel. 

The Big Red scored one in the sixth and added three more runs in the eighth to end the game. 

The Yeomen had just five hits, which included Groves extending his hitting streak to 12 games. Curtin, senior Sean Livingstone, and Kaplan joined the rookie duo of Groves and Baxt with those with hits. 

The Yeomen will honor its graduating class on Saturday afternoon when they welcome Ohio Wesleyan University to town for their final NCAC doubleheader of the season. 
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