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GAMBIER, Ohio  – Through four innings of Friday afternoon's doubleheader with the College of Wooster, the Kenyon Lords baseball team seemed to be on pace for a successful day in their home opener. The Fighting Scots went on to score a combined 22 runs to help deliver a pair of losses, 11-6 and 11-3, to the Lords in their first conference games of the season.

Tyler Dierke (2-1) rolled through his first four innings of work, taking a no-hitter into the fifth before the Scots' offense awakened in the fifth. The senior retired 12 straight batters out of the gate, including a pair of strikeouts. Zac Mathie broke up the no-no with a single to left to open the fifth frame and after surrendering a second base hit and retiring one, the Scots' Johnathan Ray began a string of five consecutive singles that plated five runs to overtake the lead, 5-3. The rally continued against Lords' reliever Alex Kendall who surrendered a two-RBI triple to Eddie Reese before sitting down the next two batters to close the inning. At the end of five, Wooster lead 7-2 and rode that lead to an 11-6 win.

Kenyon took an early 2-0 lead over Wooster with help from Kyle Hardacker's leadoff single followed by a walk to freshman Sam Gillespie in the second. Andrew Dunn brought both runners around later in the inning with a single to center.

Nate Lotze hit his first home run of the season, clearing the right field fair-foul pole, but was not nearly enough to spark a comeback.

Wooster's Steven Hagen put forth an award-worthy performance with a complete game in the Scots' 11-3 win in game two, completing the daily sweep. He surrendered three runs on six hits in his second win of the season. After giving up two runs in the opening frame to allow Kenyon to take a 2-1 lead, Hagen retired 11 of the next 13 hitters and only allowed one hit during that time.

Following run-scoring hits from Jesse Weiss and Hardacker, Wooster third baseman Craig Day tied the game with a one-out, solo home run. The Scots retook the lead in the fourth, 3-2, before rattling off three runs in the fifth highlighted by Reese's two-run double.

The Scots added two runs in the sixth and three in the ninth while allowing only one run over the duration of the game, leading to an 11-3 final score.

Kenyon (11-5, 0-2 NCAC) will complete the four-game series with Wooster (9-5, 2-0) on Saturday, March 30. They will play two games beginning at 12 p.m. at McCloskey Field.