DELAWARE, Ohio – The Kenyon College Lords baseball team closed its season with a 6-5 loss at Ohio Wesleyan University Sunday afternoon in the teams' final game as a part of the North Coast Athletic Conference Crossover series. Kenyon closed its season with a 21-19 overall record.
 
OWU's first run of the game came in the bottom of the first. Devin Van Winkle connected with a single through the left side and a throwing error from the Kenyon left fielder allowed Aaron Caputo to score.
 
Casey Rosenfeld then helped the Lords tie the game and take the lead in the second and third innings, respectively. An infield-single in the second plated Jackson Celestin and tied the contest at 1. In the next frame, Rosenfeld singled up the middle plating Cormac Jewell.
 
After Ohio Wesleyan retook the lead on a two-run single from C.J. Tosino in the fifth, Matt von Roemer delivered a one-run double down the left field line in the sixth to tie the contest.
 
Kenyon found itself down one again heading to seventh. The small 4-3 deficit was erased by Celestin who cranked a double that plated Kyle Hardacker. With the game tied again, Kenyon found another lead courtesy of Hardacker. The senior hit a two-out single through the right side allowing von Roemer to cross home.
 
Clinging to a 5-4 lead, the Lords tried to close the game but the Battling Bishops didn't succumb.
 
In the bottom of the eighth, Tyler Flaherty reached first after an error along the infeld and two batters later Aaron Strausbaugh hit asingle plating the tying run.
 
The ninth frame brought just one hit between the two rivals and pushed the game to extra innings.
 
Kenyon stranded a runner in the top of the 10th which allowed OWU a chance to win. With runners on second and third following a balk, Lords pitcher Sam Gillespie issued an intentional walk to Collin Finn and loaded the bases. In the next at-bat, Strausbaugh sent a shot to right field and the fly ball was dropped allowing Michael Blatchford to score the winning run.
 
It was the final game for Kenyon seniors Jake Dunn, Tim Krahn, Mike Jeffers, Josh Jacobvitz, and Hardacker.