FORT PIERCE, Fla. – The Kenyon College baseball team opened the 2017 season with a Sunday doubleheader against the Widener University Pride. The Lords were pretty quiet in a 6-2 game-one loss, but bashed 19 hits in game two before falling, 12-11, in eleven innings.

Junior shortstop Matt von Roemer was responsible for six of those 19 hits in game two. His output set a single-game Kenyon record, surpassing the previous mark of five hits reached by five others. Overall, von Roemer, who batted in the No. 2 hole, was 6-for-7 with two runs scored and two RBI. All six hits were singles. Three of them traveled into center field, two made their way into left field and the final one was an infield single.

That infield single eventually led to the Lords' 11th run in the top of the ninth inning. Widener (5-1), however, answered that with an unearned run in the bottom of the frame and the teams headed to extra innings. Neither team scored in the tenth. Kenyon got a two-out double from Cormac Jewell in the 11th, but he was left stranded.

In the bottom of the 11th, Widener's Michael Elfreth led off with a double. The Pride then took advantage of a Kenyon error to advance Elfreth to third. With two outs and the bases loaded, Kyle Lowry hit a single to left field that plated the winning run.

Kenyon reliever Patrick O'Leary took the loss. He threw for two-and-two-thirds innings, he struck out two, gave up four hits and allowed two runs, both unearned. Both starting pitchers, Brad Clegg for Kenyon and Matthew Guarino for Widener, didn't last long. Both gave up six earned runs in a game that featured a combined total of 37 hits.

Freshman Eric DelRosso added three more hits and scored three times for Kenyon in game two. Alec Manning tacked on two hits, as did Paul Siciliano. The Widener defense committed a whopping total of ten errors, but it only resulted in one unearned runs for the Lords.

In game one, Widener capitalized on some shaky Kenyon pitching in the second inning. After striking out the side in the first inning, Lords' starter Jesse Bogacz walked the first three he faced in the second. He ended up walking one more later in the inning and then gave up a single that, combined with an error, scored three Widener runs and led to a 4-0 Pride lead.

In the fourth, Widener used another walk, followed by a double and a single, to score their fifth and sixth runs. That left Bogacz, who went four innings, with the pitching loss. Sophomore Dylan Goodwin finished off the final three innings, allowing just one hit and one walk. Bogacz struck out eight and Goodwin fanned two more.

The only offense the Lords could muster against Widener starter Kyle McKelvy was a two-run home run from DelRosso in the bottom of the seventh inning. McKelvy (2-0) pitched all seven innings and gave up just four hits. He didn't walk a batter and he struck out three.

Kenyon (0-2) will move on and try to nail down its first win of the season in Monday's doubleheader against Elizabethtown College. The first of those two games is slated for a 9:30 a.m. start.