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WOOSTER, Ohio – Before Monday's games with The College of Wooster Fighting Scots, the Kenyon College baseball team had not played a game in more than two weeks. As the Lords tried to scrape off the rust, the Scots showed a little more polish and swept a North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader by scores of 10-5 and 9-6.
The Scots scored their runs in bunches. In game one, they posted back-to-back four-run outputs in the fourth and fifth innings, and then tacked on a two-run sixth for good measure. In game two, they rallied from five runs down to tie up the game with a five-run fifth. Three innings later, the Scots scored three in the bottom of the eighth to seal the win and complete the sweep.
Sophomore
Spencer Byers got the start in game one for the Lords and he cruised through his first three innings of work. In the fourth, however, the Kenyon defense let Byers down and committed a series of errors that led to four Wooster runs. Byers was relieved in the fifth, but the Kenyon defense faltered again, giving up another four runs. In all, Kenyon's six errors left little chance of victory.
Byers struck out six in just four innings pitched, but he was tagged with the loss after giving up four earned runs on six hits and two walks.
Kenyon got on the board first in game one. The Lords' used one of two Wooster errors in the game to push home that first run on an RBI single from
Tyler Roldan. It wasn't until the seventh and final inning that they scored again. Roldan chalked up another RBI on a bases-loaded walk and
Nate Lotze completed the Kenyon scoring by clearing the bases with a three-run double to right field.
In the top of the fourth inning of game two,
Jake Dunn singled, while Lotze and
Kyle Hardacker drew walks to juice the bases. Sophomore
John Nahra then stepped to the plate and delivered a grand slam, his third homer of the season.
Nahra's blast gave Kenyon a 5-1 lead and a sacrifice fly from
Casey Rosenfeld pushed the Lords' advantage to 6-1 in the top of the fifth inning. That lead didn't last long, however. Wooster used five hits and a walk in the bottom of the inning to tie things up at 6-6. All six Scots' runs came off starter
Josh Jacobvitz, who was pulled at the end of the fifth in favor of reliever
Tim Krahn.
Krahn got through the sixth and the seventh unscathed, but Wooster had one more surge in the bottom of the eighth inning and scored three times on four hits.
Roldan and
Jackson Celestin led the Lords with three hits each during the course of the doubleheader. Rosenfeld, Nahra, and Dunn all had two hits.
The Lords (8-8, 0-2 NCAC) and Scots (10-4, 2-0 NCAC) will play two more games Tuesday, beginning at noon.