GAMBIER, Ohio – In the last home game of the year for the Kenyon College Lords baseball team, Capital University (13-20) came away with a 10-4 win highlighted by 11 players collecting hits for the Crusaders.
 
Capital was led by Alexander Smith and Brett Colburn who each tallied two hits and one run batted in. On the mound, Shane Wellman (2-3) tossed eight innings and allowed four runs while fanning five.
 
Freshman Matt von Roemer led Kenyon with a 3-for-5 performance and a pair of RBI. Kyle Hardacker and Jake Dunn rounded out the Lords' batters that attained two hits.
 
Leading 1-0 heading to the second, Capital took control of the game scoring a trio of runs. Tyler Gibbons started the frame with a double and Colburn followed with a shot to right field putting runners on the corner. The next two at-bats from Kirby Boehm and Joe Swisher resulted in a single and sacrifice bunt, respectively, pushing across two runs. Smith closed out the scoring with a two-out RBI double to right center.
 
Kenyon appeared ready to cut into the deficit in the bottom half of the second as Hardacker and Phillip Nam each got hits to start the frame. Nam then advanced to second on a passed ball which put both runners in scoring position. After that however, Wellman shut down the Lords' chances as he got a strikeout and induced a flyout and groundout.
 
The Lords returned to bat in the third, still down 4-0, and found their first run of the game on a two-out RBI single to left field from Dunn.
 
That three-run deficit was the closest Kenyon got the rest of the way though.
 
Capital added four more runs in the sixth highlighted by RBI doubles from Colburn and Justin Ennis and a run-scoring single from Jake Foley. The Crusaders led by as many as nine runs (10-1) in the contest.
 
Kenyon closed strong in the latter innings getting two runs in the seventh as Von Roemer hit an RBI single scoring Cormac Jewell. Later, Max Heldman scored on a wild pitch.
 
The final tally for the Lords occurred in the eighth on another run-scoring single from Von Roemer.
 
Next up for Kenyon is a trip to Delaware, Ohio to face Ohio Wesleyan University (23-10) in the North Coast Athletic Conference Crossover. The three-game series starts May 2 at noon with a doubleheader. The winner of the series will advance to the NCAC Tournament.