OBERLIN, Ohio – From the start, Saturday looked like it would be a prolific day for the Kenyon College baseball team. After scoring six runs in their first at-bat of a doubleheader with Oberlin College, the Lords scored just two more runs the rest of the day and wound up splitting the two games with the host Yeomen. Kenyon took game one, 7-6, and then dropped game two, 5-1.

Freshman Matt Von Roemer began the doubleheader with a single for Kenyon. Cormac Jewell reached on an error and Jake Dunn walked to load the bases. A wild pitch scored Von Roemer and Kyle Hardacker and Phillip Nam followed up with RBI singles. Later in the inning, with two outs, Max Warren ripped a double to right field and plated two more Kenyon runs. Max Heldman singled in one more and chased Oberlin starting pitcher Harrison Wollman (0-3) from the game.

Ben Lovett then took over the mound for the Yeomen and quickly silenced the Lords' bats. Lovett tossed three-and-a-third innings without giving up a run, or even a hit. Meanwhile, Kenyon starting pitcher Jesse Bogacz retired six of the first seven batters he faced. In the third inning, however, Oberlin cranked out four hits and scored three times.

Both teams scored a run in the fifth inning and Kenyon headed into the sixth inning with a 7-4 lead. It was at that point that Bogacz ran out of gas. He walked the first batter he faced in the sixth and then hit the second. Sam Gillespie relieved Bogacz and got one out before walking two more and hitting another batter. Oberlin ended up scoring twice in the inning with registering a hit.

In the seventh, junior pitcher Spencer Byers finished off the game for the Lords. He preserved the win for Bogacz (2-2) while picking up his fourth save of the season.

The Lords had eight hits through game one's seven innings. In game two's nine innings, they managed only four against Oberlin hurlers. Starter Kyle Dominy (3-1) went seven innings, gave up just one unearned run in the first and allowed just three hits and one walk. He did not record a single strikeout. Milo Sklar finished off the final two innings for Oberlin. He yielded one hit and two walks, but kept the Lords from ever threatening.

Jono Chafe and Jackson Celestin both doubled for Kenyon in game two and the other two hits were singles off the bat of Dunn, who is now hitting .506 and has a five-game hit streak going. Dunn has hit safely in all but two of Kenyon's 26 games this season. Saturday, he was 1-for-2 with a run scored in game one and 2-for-4 with an RBI in game two.

Nam also had a solid day at the plate for Kenyon, going a combined 2-for-6 with a run scored and two RBI. Warren matched those two RBI and Von Roemer matched Dunn's two runs scored.

On the mound, sophomore Thomas Morris was pinned with the game-two loss. He pitched a little more than six innings and gave up four earned runs on eight hits and four walks. He also struck out six, while falling to 4-2 on the season.

Kenyon (15-11, 4-4 NCAC) and Oberlin (10-15, 1-3 NCAC) will face off again in another doubleheader Sunday. The conference foes will get things underway at 1 p.m.