Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – Quality starts escaped the Kenyon College baseball team in Sunday's non-conference doubleheader with the host Wittenberg University Tigers. Kenyon yielded a combined total of seven runs in the first innings and wound up dropping games by scores of 6-5 and 7-4.

In game one, Wittenberg roughed up Kenyon freshman starter Alex Pinkus. The Tigers used a triple, two singles, and two walks to score four runs in the first inning. In the third inning, Wittenberg got two more runs, one earned and one unearned, off Pinkus, who gave way to reliever Tim Krahn. By that time, Wittenberg had a 6-1 lead.

Krahn was nearly flawless. He pitched the final three-and-two-thirds innings for the Lords without allowing a hit or run. He struck out four, hit one batter, and gave his team an opportunity to climb back in the game.

The Lords' offense started chipping into the Tigers' lead in the fifth inning. Freshman Connor Bingham got aboard after a Wittenberg error. Junior Jake Dunn then doubled, moving Bingham to third. Two batters later, Tyler Roldan singled through the right side to bring both runners home.

In the sixth, John Nahra doubled and came around to score on a Wittenberg error. That brought the score to 6-4 heading into the final inning, which began with a Dunn home run to left field. The blast gave Kenyon a shot in the arm, but the Lords only managed a base-on-balls the rest of the inning and wound up one run short.

In game two, senior Nate Lotze stroked a two-run shot to give Kenyon an early lead, but Wittenberg tagged Kenyon stating pitcher Matt Delbridge for three runs in the bottom of the first. Two more runs, both unearned, in the bottom of the third inning put the Tigers in front 5-2.

Kenyon once again tried to close the gap by scoring single runs in both the fifth and sixth innings, but each time it did Wittenberg responded with a run of its own. In the fifth, freshman Casey Rosenfeld doubled and came around to score on a single from Dunn. In the sixth, Bingham bombed the Lords' third home run of the day.

Throughout the doubleheader, Dunn was 3-for-8 with two RBI and two runs scored. Kyle Hardacker was 3-for-7 with one RBI and one run scored.  Rosenfeld and Bingham each scored two runs, while Lotze and Roldan each contributed two RBI.

The sweep dropped the Lords' record to 10-16, while it improved Wittenberg to 8-16. Kenyon will try to bounce back Friday and Saturday during a four-game North Coast Athletic Conference set with the Allegheny College Gators.