FORT PIERCE, Fla. – Defensive errors and base-running miscues prevented the Kenyon College baseball team from defeating the La Roche College Redhawks in Wednesday's doubleheader at the Lawnwood Baseball Complex. La Roche capitalized on the Kenyon lapses and pulled out last-inning wins by scores of 4-3 and 4-2.

The losses were Kenyon's second and third in a row in which the Lords fell in the final inning of play. The Lords, now 7-5 on their Florida trip, have three more games to play before returning back to campus.

In game one against the Redhawks, Kenyon took a 3-1 lead into the top of the seventh inning after collecting a pair of singles from Jono Chafe and Tyler Roldan and then a pair of sacrifice flies from Max Warren and Matt von Roemer.

In the bottom of the seventh inning, Kenyon, which had five errors for the game, made three errors that led to defeat. Those blunders, along with two La Roche hits, allowed the Redhawks to pull out the 4-3 win. The errors also cost Kenyon freshman pitcher Jesse Bogacz a proper decision. He ended up taking the loss despite going 6 2/3 innings, striking out eight, and allowing just four hits. All four runs he gave up were unearned.

Through his first three collegiate starts, Bogacz owns a 1.59 earned run average and 16 strikeouts in 17 innings pitched. He's allowed only seven hits and opponents are batting just .121 against him.

Kenyon received another good outing from game-two starter Thomas Morris, a sophomore. He was, however, strapped with his first loss of the season when he gave up four runs, three earned, in 6 1/3 innings. He struck out four, walked two, and surrendered seven hits.

The Lords took a quick 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning of game two on an RBI single from sophomore Phillip Nam. Following that, Kenyon ran into all kinds of problems on the base paths, including pick-offs, double-plays, and over-run bases. In the bottom of the sixth inning, Kenyon tied things up at 2-2 when Kyle Hardacker tripled and scored on a single from Nam. Another Kenyon single followed from Chafe, but both Nam and Chafe were later thrown out on the bases, ending the Lords' threat.

La Roche got to Morris for a single and walk in the top of the seventh inning before he was replaced by Matt Delbridge. A junior lefty, Delbridge hit two batters and allowed another single. That put the Redhawks up 4-2 for good.

Kenyon rolled into a double play in the bottom of the seventh, completing the La Roche sweep.

Chafe ended up going 3-for-4 with a run scored. Jake Dunn, who now carries a .513 batting average for the season, was a combined 3-for-6 in the doubleheader. Hardacker, Nam, Roldan, and von Roemer each added a pair of hits during the two-game set.

Kenyon will look to end its brief three-game skid tomorrow morning when it faces the University of Northwestern (MN) in a doubleheader that starts at 9 a.m.