MEADVILLE, Pa. – The Allegheny College Gators used their last at-bats in Saturday's doubleheader to deliver the Kenyon College Lords baseball team a couple of heartbreaking North Coast Athletic Conference losses at Robertson Field. The Gators took game one, 11-10, in eight innings and then completed the sweep with a 6-5 eight-inning game-two win.

The losses dropped Kenyon's records to 20-14 overall and 6-8 in the NCAC East Division. Meanwhile, the Gators improved to 20-14 overall and 11-3 in the NCAC East Division. The two teams will meet again Sunday, as the Lords try to even out the series with game one starting at noon.

In Saturday's first game, Kenyon jumped all over Allegheny starter Corey Keenan. Through the first four innings, the Lords rang up seven runs on 11 hits and two walks. In the third inning, Kenyon put together three singles and scored two times, once on an RBI single from Kyle Hardacker. Then, in the fifth inning, the Kenyon men erupted for five runs on six singles and a walk. Hardacker had another RBI single, as did Jake Dunn and Jono Chafe. John Nahra added a two-run single and Kenyon had a 7-0 lead.

Allegheny retaliated with four runs in the bottom of the inning, but sophomore Phillip Nam blasted a three-run homer in the sixth inning to give the Lords a 10-4 lead. The homer was Nam's second of the year and the three RBI gave him a team-best 36 on the season.

Going into the seventh inning of what was scheduled to be a seven-inning game, Kenyon owned a 10-6 lead. Spencer Byers, who had six saves already this season, came on to close things out. After a shaky start, Byers managed to coax a double play.  However, a wild pitch, a walk, and a couple of hits led to four unearned Gator runs and a tie ball game.

Kenyon went down in order in the top of the eighth inning and Allegheny managed to plate the winning run by getting to Kenyon reliever Josh Jacobvitz for a single, a walk, and a game-deciding double struck by Adam Bronson.

In game two, Allegheny went ahead 4-0, but big hits from Matt Von Roemer and Jake Berry in the third and fourth innings tied things up.  In the sixth, Berry came up with another clutch hit to give Kenyon a 5-4 lead.

Like game one, Allegheny rallied to tie it up in the bottom of the seventh and win it in the eighth. The knockout punch for the Gators was an eighth-inning lead-off solo home run for Zach Gray.

Overall, Kenyon had 15 hits in the doubleheader. Chafe ended up going 4-for-8 on the day and so did Von Roemer. Casey Rosenfeld and Nahra had three hits apiece. Rosenfeld and Nam scored three times, while Nam and Berry both chalked up three RBI.