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WOOSTER, Ohio – Explosive offenses were on display Tuesday at Art Murray Field, but it was The College Wooster Fighting Scots who showed more firepower in sweeping a baseball doubleheader from the visiting Kenyon College Lords. Wooster piled up a combined total of 36 hits and claimed wins by scores of 21-15 and 15-6.
The Scots didn't waste any time in getting to work. They scored three runs in each of the first two innings of game one and then put up seven more runs in the third inning to jump out to a 13-1 lead. Kenyon responded with three in the top of the fourth, but Wooster didn't let up and scored eight more in the bottom of the fourth.
Wooster's 21-4 lead seemed pretty safe at the time, but Kenyon never gave in and came back with 11 runs over the next two innings to make a game of it. Every Kenyon hitter had at least one hit in game one. Sophomore
John Nahra had three hits and scored four times. Leadoff hitter
Jake Dunn had two hits and three RBI.
Casey Rosenfeld,
Tyler Roldan,
Kyle Hardacker, and
Phillip Nam all added two hits as well.
The Lords burned through five pitchers in that first game and a depleted staff went back to work in game two. The result was better for a few innings, but the powerful Wooster offense broke through again late in the game.
Kenyon moved ahead early in gam two with RBI hits from Hardacker, Rosenfeld, and
Nate Lotze. Wooster then scored five times over the next two innings and took a 5-4 lead after five. In the top of the sixth, the Lords responded again. This time it was Roldan who laced a two-run double.
At that point, Kenyon had a 6-5 lead. In the seventh, however, Wooster sent 13 batters to the plate and scored nine times. The Scots, who ended up sweeping the four-game season series from the Lords, bombed a total of six home runs and seven doubles in Tuesday's two games.
Roldan led the Lords' offense with a combined 4-for-7 day at the plate. He scored two runs and had three RBI. Rosenfeld was 4-for-9 with three RBI and two runs scored. Dunn was a combined 3-for-8 and added three runs and three RBI.
The Lords are now 8-10 overall and 0-4 in North Coast Athletic Conference action. They'll try to end a five-game skid Saturday, when they host Oberlin College in the start of another two-day, four-game conference series.