Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 GAMBIER, Ohio – With a doubleheader split at Hiram College on Saturday, the Kenyon College baseball team put an end to an extended losing streak and delivered head coach Matt Burdette his 300th victory with the program. The Lords dropped game one against the Terriers, 10-9, but returned with a vengeance to take game two by a 14-1 count.

Burdette, who was hired as Kenyon's skipper in 1996, is a four-time North Coast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. He is the program's all-time leader in coaching victories and his teams have produced 20 wins or more in six of the past nine seasons.

To make sure their coach hit the milestone, the Lords pummeled Hiram with 17 hits, one shy of a season best, in game two. Freshman Phillip Nam, batting out of the eighth spot, led the team with a 3-for-5 showing that included a run scored and five RBI. Six other Kenyon batters had two hits, including senior Nate Lotze, who was 2-for-5 with a run scored and three RBI. Lotze's two hits in game two gave him 37 on the season and 187 for his career. He is now just five hits shy of the all-time Kenyon hit record of 192 set by Matt Marcinczyck '06.

Kenyon was held scoreless for the first three innings of game two, but then posted crooked numbers in the fourth, sixth, and ninth innings. While the bats were ringing, the Lords got an equally impressive performance from starting pitcher Tim Krahn. All he did was twirl a complete nine-inning game. He yielded just one earned run on six hits and walk. A junior, Krahn also struck out six and improved his season pitching record to 1-1 on the season.

The Lords' bats were almost as effective in game one, but the pitching just didn't come through. At the plate, Kenyon racked up nine runs on a dozen hits and three walks. Three of those 12 hits were home runs from Jake Dunn, Kyle Hardacker, and Sam Gillespie. Dunn, the team's leadoff hitter, was 3-for-4 with two runs scored and three RBI. At the end of the day, his season numbers included team-highs for batting average (.400), runs (34), hits (50), and stolen bases (8).

On the mound, the normally reliable Josh Jacobvitz could not find a groove. Hiram tagged him for nine runs on eight hits and three walks. Jacobvitz escaped the loss, however, because Thomas Morris came on in relief and gave up the winning run to Hiram in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Kenyon held leads of 6-2 and 9-5 in game one, but Hiram's four-run fifth inning made all the difference and set the stage for the winning run in the sixth.

The two teams will duke it out again Sunday in another doubleheader scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.