DELAWARE, Ohio –Ohio Wesleyan University ended Kenyon College's chances of making the North Coast Athletic Conference baseball tourney for the second straight season as they swept a doubleheader at Littick Field on Saturday. The Battling Bishops held on in the opener 9-8 before cruising in the rubber match by a 21-4 tally.
 
GAME ONE
 
Ohio Wesleyan held off a late Kenyon rally and claimed a 9-8 victory in the second game of the NCAC Crossover Series between the two teams.  The Battling Bishops had attained an 8-2 lead in the fifth before the Lords made things interesting in the final three innings.
 
Early on, the Lords got a 2-1 lead as John Nahra and Mikey Arman each had run-scoring singles.
 
OWU erased the one-run deficit in the fourth highlighted by a couple home runs. Aaron Strausbaugh started the inning with a solo homer to left field. Following a sacrifice fly by Justin Dages which gave the home team a 3-2 lead, Colin Stolly hit a three-run homer to left field pushing OWU's lead to 6-2.
 
Ohio Wesleyan added two more runs in the fifth to push its lead to 8-2.
 
Following a scoreless sixth inning, Kenyon started its comeback.
 
In the seventh, Matt von Roemer singled which put two Lords along the base paths. The next plate appearance by Arman saw the sophomore double to center field plating John Nahra. Kenyon added two more runs two batters later as Jono Chafe connected with another double down the right-field line bringing the score to 8-5.
 
Kenyon inched closer in the eighth on a von Roemer sacrifice fly which brought the tally to 8-6.
 
Then in the ninth, down 9-6, the Lords got a two-run bomb from junior Andrew Petersdorf who went first-pitch swinging and sent the ball over the left-field fence. Kenyon nearly tied the game in the next at-bat as Ross Scheinberg hit a long ball to left field. The ball fell, however, about two feet short of the fence and into the glove of Strausbaugh. OWU then closed the door inducing a groundout at first base.
 
The Lords left 11 runners on base during the game. Nahra and Arman led the team with three hits apiece while Chafe had two.
 
 GAME TWO
 
Ohio Wesleyan had no issue in the final game of the series as they tallied 21 runs on 20 hits.
 
The second inning saw OWU get on the board after an error along the infield brought in a run. Tyler Flaherty brought the score to 2-0 with a run-scoring single down the right field line.
In the third, OWU got the rest of the run support it needed in the game as they scored five times. Highlighting that inning was Devin Van Winkle's three-run home run to center field. Aaron Caputo also drove in a run with a single.
 
During the fifth and sixth frames, the Lords had a chance to cut into a 10-0 deficit but they left five runners on base during those innings.  
 
With the game well in hand, OWU added more insurance in the sixth and eighth innings.
 
The Lords did get four runs in the top of the eighth as Alec Manning drove in Phillip Nam and Tyler Roldan connected with a sacrifice fly. Capping off the inning was Jackson Celestin's two-run homer to left field.
 
For Kenyon, they close the season with a 21-17 overall record and 7-10 mark in NCAC play.