FORT PIERCE, Fla. – The Kenyon College baseball team surrendered late runs in both games against Drew University and University of Northwestern (MN) Monday afternoon. In the opener, Drew tallied the go-ahead run in the eighth and in game two, Northwestern scored three times in the 15th inning in a come-from-behind 5-4 victory.
 
GAME ONE
 
The Drew University Rangers manufactured runs in any way possible Monday and got a solid pitching performance from Ryan Fitzpatrick to hold on for a 4-3 win over the Kenyon College Lords baseball team.
Two of the four Ranger runs were unearned. The other two scored on sacrifice flies.

After Kenyon (1-2) started the game with a Phillip Nam RBI single that scored Tyler Roldan in the top of the first inning, Drew (3-2) got sac flies from Mike Miraglia in the third inning and Zach Lipshitz in the fourth inning.

Meanwhile, Fitzpatrick was locking up Kenyon hitters. The Drew starter ended up going nearly eight innings. He allowed three runs on six hits. He walked three and struck out six.

In the top of the seventh inning, Kenyon tied the game at 2-2. Andrew Petersdorf led off the inning with a double down the left field line. Jackson Celestine then ripped a single through the left side that scored Petersdorf. In the bottom of the inning, Drew responded to take the lead again. This time, the first two Ranger batters got aboard via a single and a hit-by-pitch. The runners were sacrifice over and one of them later scored on a groundout to shortstop.

Neither team stopped there. In the top of the eighth, a Kenyon single, a walk and another base hit from Petersdorf evened things up at three apiece.

Kenyon starter Jesse Bogacz was pulled in the bottom of the sixth inning after yielding just three hits. He struck out four, but also walked four. Reliever Matt Delbridge gave up the Rangers' third run in the seventh inning and Conor Farrell gave up the game-winner in the eighth when a sure-fire double-play went awry for the Lords, allowing Drew's Marc Cohen to score from second.

Nam, Petersdorf and Jono Chafe each had two hits for Kenyon, which ended the game with nine hits. Drew had just six hits and relief pitcher Joshua Williams picked up the win for the Rangers.
 
GAME TWO
 
Within the first three innings of the Lords' contest against the Eagles, both teams had manufactured some good offense. Kenyon jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first as Mike Arman had a run-scoring single and Phillip Nam added an RBI double.

Two innings later, Northwestern (MN) tied the game due to a Kenyon error. Tucker Morrell led off the third reaching base after an error by the Lords pitcher. Kenyon regrouped to retire two of the next three batters, but the Eagles made the Kenyon defense pay as Tyler Osborn connected with a single up the middle plating two base-runners with two outs. Both of those runs went unearned but helped the Eagles tie the affair at 2-2.

The somewhat fast start for both teams came to a halt however from the fourth through fourteenth innings.

In that span, a total of just 10 base-runners made it into scoring position. Both team's staffs were solid during that stretch as well. Kenyon allowed just five hits while Northwestern gave up just two.

Heading to the 15th inning, the Lords finally found some offense to boost their chances. Tyler Roldan started the frame with a single and was sacrificed over to second in the next at-bat as Jackson Celestin connected with a bunt. After Matt Contreras walked in the next at-bat, Matt von Roemer singled scoring the two runners and moved the Lords ahead 4-2.

Despite what appeared to be an insurmountable deficit due to the lack of hits in the previous innings, the Eagles found victory in the home half of the 15th.

Bradley Spencer doubled with one out down the left-field line and two batters later Morrell singled up the middle bringing home Spencer and cutting the deficit to 4-3. The next at-bat proved costly for the Lords.

Braxton Lindow reached on an error in left field and that moved two runners in scoring position for Northwestern. In the next at-bat, Brady Arneson singled to right field and ended the game in the Eagles' favor, 5-4.

Contreras led Kenyon with a pair of hits in five at-bats. The rest of the Lords totaled just five hits in 46 plate appearances.

Ross Scheinberg took the tough-luck loss as he pitched the final 2 2/3 innings allowing five hits and two earned runs.

Kenyon has the next two days off but will return to action March 10 when they face Westminster College (PA) in a doubleheader.