GAMBIER, Ohio – The Kenyon College baseball team scored the first run in each game of Monday's doubleheader with the No. 8-ranked College of Wooster Fighting Scots. Those one-run leads, however, were the only leads of the day for the host Lords, who fell 18-2 in game one and 13-2 in game two.

The doubleheader sweep dropped Kenyon's overall record to 13-16 and its North Coast Athletic Conference East Division record to 5-7. Wooster, on the other hand, improved to 21-5 overall and 10-2 in the NCAC East.

In game one, Matt von Roemer got Kenyon started off with a first-inning walk. Patrick O'Leary later singled up the middle. Two batters after that, Phillip Nam also singled up the middle and pushed von Roemer home for the first run of the day.

Meanwhile, Kenyon starting pitcher Jesse Bogacz rang up five strikeouts in the first two innings. In third inning, though, things started coming unglued for Bogacz and the Lords. Wooster loaded the bases with a single, a double and an intentional walk. Garrett Crum then blasted a grand slam to left field to give Wooster a 4-1 lead.

The Scots kept pouring it on in the fourth inning. They connected on three straight extra-base hits, drew a walk, tacked on a single and ended the frame with four more runs.

Kenyon responded with a run in the bottom of the fourth. Three straight singles from Jono Chafe, Max Warren and Matt Contreras made the score 8-2.

Bogacz left the game and Connor Farrell took his place, only to give up a run in the fifth inning. He came back for the sixth, but his defense let him down. Wooster capitalized on three Kenyon errors, sent 13 batters to the plate in the inning and scored nine runs, only three of which were earned.

The Lords did manage ten hits in game one, but nine were singles. The only extra base hit came from Contreras in the bottom of the second inning. He ripped a double to right, but was thrown out at third trying to stretch it into a triple.

Game two started out the same way. In the bottom of the first, Cormac Jewell coaxed a one-out single through the left side. Two batters later, Andrew Petersdorf laced a double to left center, scoring Jewell.

Wooster retaliated in the second inning, scoring four runs off Kenyon starter Will Oakley. The Scots got one more in the third inning and then ran Oakley off the mound with an additional five runs in the fourth inning.

Unlike the first game, the Lords didn't hit. Head coach Matt Burdette made the decision to start reserves in game two and Wooster starting pitcher Tyler Schuch, a lefty, took advantage. He held the Lords to just three hits in seven innings of work. He walked three and struck out two. He did give up another run in the seventh, though it was no fault of his own. A wayward throw on a Scots' double-play attempt allowed Joaquin Murrieta to score the final run of the game. Murrieta reached base early in the inning by tagging a double to right field.

The Lords will regroup and start looking ahead to another NCAC weekend series, this one at Oberlin College on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday's doubleheader with the Yeomen (12-15, 3-5 NCAC East) begins at 1 p.m. and Sunday's will start at noon.