WOOSTER, Ohio -- The Kenyon College baseball team never really got off the ground in Tuesday's North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader at The College of Wooster. The Lords' had their ten-game win streak snapped with an 8-2 loss in game one and Wooster tacked on the exclamation mark with a 10-0 victory in game two.
Kenyon (16-7, 4-2 NCAC) struck first in the second inning with a leadoff home run by
Alec Manning on the first pitch he saw. The homer was his second of the season. Then in the third, it was
Mikey Arman with a solo shot, his first of the year, to make the score 2-0.
Meantime, Kenyon starting pitcher
Jesse Bogacz held the Fighting Scots to no hits and one walk over the first two innings. But the wheels came off in the third inning. Wooster (13-5, 4-2 NCAC) put its first seven batters of the inning on base, chasing Bogacz. All seven went on to score.
Connor Farrell came on to pitch and calmed things down, finishing the inning while allowing three hits.
The Fighting Scots tacked on one more run in the sixth, when Kenny Reckart and Michael Wielansky hit back-to-back doubles, scoring Reckart.
Arman finished the game with two hits. Manning,
Phillip Nam and
Jason Clebowicz had the only other Kenyon hits.
Bogacz suffered his first loss of the season. He managed a pair of strikeouts, but he also walked five while allowing seven earned runs.
Kai Leisher pitched the final three innings for the Lords, allowing just one earned run on two hits and one walk.
Kenyon had seven hits in game two, but could not find a way to score.
Matt von Roemer smacked the Lords' only extra-base hit with a double to lead off the fourth inning. He advanced to third on a wild pitch to Arman with nobody out. However, the Lords weren't able to get von Roemer to advance those final 90 feet to home, as Wooster pitcher Nanak Saran forced two groundouts and a strikeout.
Wooster then pounced on Kenyon for one run in the second inning, two more in the fifth, a run in the sixth and six more in the seventh to turn the game into a rout.
Arman, Nam,
Matt Contreras,
Jono Chafe,
John Nahra and
Jackson Celestin each singled for the Lords.
On the mound, senior
Sam Gillespie suffered his first loss of the season, going six innings and allowing six runs (four earned) on five hits and four walks. He struck out three.
Dylan Goodwin made his first appearance of the season and allowed two earned runs.
Ross Scheinberg allowed one unearned run in one inning of relief and Manning walked one batter in Kenyon's final inning of work.
The Lords now return home for a four-game NCAC series against Oberlin College. The first two games of that four-game slate are scheduled to start Saturday at noon.
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Phillip Nam had a hit in both games of Tuesday's doubleheader at Wooster,
but the Lords were swept by the host Fighting Scots.Â