FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Coming off an 0-2 start in Sunday's season-opening games, the Kenyon College baseball team looked to rebound in Monday's doubleheader against the Elizabethtown College Blue Jays. Kenyon opened the first game with a salvo, scoring four runs in the first inning, but went on to lose 8-4. That was followed by a 7-4 loss in a neck-and-neck 10-inning second game.

The Lords wasted no time in the morning's opening inning. Gaige Howard and Matt von Roemer each singled in their first at-bats and junior outfielder Mikey Arman sealed the deal with a double into left field, plating both runners. Arman scored next when Andrew Petersdorf reached on an Elizabethtown error. Senior Phillip Nam later scored Kenyon's fourth and final run of the inning—and of the game—on a single from Alec Manning.

Elizabethtown (6-1) notched its first two runs in the second frame. Then, in the bottom of the fourth, the Blue Jays overtook the Lords. Anthony Knight scored the first run of the inning on a single from Kyle Fackler, and in the next play, a Kenyon error allowed James Kantner to score and tie the game at 4-4. Elizabethtown secured three more runs, one of them unearned, to close the fourth with a 7-4 lead.

One more Blue Jay run in the fifth solidified the lead and Elizabethtown walked away with the game-one victory. Arman and von Roemer led Kenyon with two hits and one run apiece, along with Arman's two RBI. Fackler led the Blue Jays with three hits, two RBI and a run.

The second game of the day started slower. It wasn't until the third inning that the Blue Jays opened scoring. Colby Smith started things off with a double into left field, advancing Richy Masciarelli and Fackler over home plate. Kenyon responded in kind in the bottom of the third. von Roemer stroked a two-out single and Arman reached via error. Nam then socked a double of his own into left field, scoring both Kenyon runners.

The Blue Jays scored two more runs in the fourth, but Kenyon responded quickly. In the bottom of the fourth, sophomore catcher Jake Berry hit a sacrifice fly to allow Patrick O'Leary to score. In the bottom of the fifth, von Roemer singled again, then stole second and advanced to third on a wild pitch. Nam stepped to the plate and delivered a single, sending von Roemer home to tie the game at five apiece.

The score remained that way through the next four innings. During that time, Kenyon reliever Eric DelRosso kept the Blue Jays at bay as he struck out three batters and allowed just four hits, all singles.

A defensive error by Kenyon, however, allowed the Blue Jays to break the tie in the 10th. With the bases loaded and no one out, Masciarelli reached first on an infield error. All runners moved up a bag, including Anthony Cameron who tapped the plate. Smith, who went 5-for-6 with four RBI, stepped up next and singled to left field. That sent Fackler and Riley McGinley around third and put the Blue Jays up 10-7. Kenyon got a runner on board in the bottom of the 10th thanks to an Elizabethtown error, but the Lords never seriously threatened in the final frame of the close loss.

The significant number of errors committed by both Kenyon and its opponents over the last two days had a great deal to do with powerful wind gusts that altered nearly every fly ball into an unpredictable adventure for scrambling fielders.

The winds, however, did not slow von Roemer's bat down. He went 4-for-5 with two runs scored in game two and is now batting .632 (12-for-19) with five runs scored and five stolen bases.  

Kenyon (0-4) will now look for a win against Drew University on Wednesday. The single, nine-inning game is scheduled to start at 10 a.m.