FORT PIERCE, Fla. – The Kenyon College baseball team left nine base runners stranded Monday morning and paid for it in the form of a 7-6 loss to the Delaware Valley College Aggies. The defeat dipped the Lords' record to 7-3 and snapped a four-game win streak.

The first inning was a sign of things to come for Kenyon. It began the game with a single, a pop out, and a couple of walks, however, the bases-loaded threat fizzled when Delaware Valley escaped using a 6-4-3 double play.

While the Lords couldn't push their runners around third, the Aggies got things moving in the bottom of the first inning. They touched up Kenyon starting pitcher Josh Jacobvitz for two singles and then a three-run homer from catcher Corey White.

Kenyon got a run back in the top of the third when Matt von Roemer and Cormac Jewell drilled back-to-back doubles. One more Kenyon run, an unearned one, scored in the sixth inning, but the Lords left the bases loaded again as the threat came to a halt with a strikeout.

In the previous inning, the Aggies chalked up two more runs on three singles and a double. That signaled the end for Jacobvitz, who went five innings and allowed five runs on nine hits and a couple of walks.

In the seventh, the Kenyon offense got to Delaware Valley reliever Ben Lippincott for two runs to tie things up at 5-5. After a walk to Jewell and a single from Jake Dunn, senior Kyle Hardacker laced a double that plated both Kenyon runners.

With reliever Mike Jeffers now on the hill for the Lords, Delaware Valley manufactured a go-ahead run in the eighth inning. The Aggies did so by getting their leadoff hitter, White, on board after he was hit by a pitch. He stole second and was replaced by pinch runner Samuel Amos. Jeffers got the next two batters out, but Kevin Crill managed to slap a single that scored Amos.

Kenyon now faced a 6-5 deficit heading into the top of the ninth inning. Jewell answered the call again with a leadoff single. Dunn moved him over with another single, but was erased from the base paths on the next play in which the Aggies flipped another double play. Phillip Nam, who was 0-for-4 to this point, then belted a two-out double that scored Jewell and tied the game at 6-6.

Kenyon had a chance to take the lead on the next play, but Nam was thrown out at the plate after Casey Rosenfeld reached base on an error by the Aggies' third baseman. The ball trickled past third base and into left field, where Bobby Altieri scooped it up and gunned down Nam.

Kenyon closer Tyler Roldan came on in the bottom of the ninth and got two quick outs, but the Aggies plated the winning run by stringing together three straight singles.

The top four hitters in the Lords' lineup (von Roemer, Jewell, Dunn, and Hardacker) combined for a 7-for-16 day at the plate. That quartet also accounted for five runs and four RBI. The rest of the lineup went 2-for-19 with a run scored and two RBI.

Kenyon will try to get back in the win column Wednesday as it plays a tough LaRoche College team in a doubleheader that starts at 10:00 a.m.