OBERLIN, Ohio – The Kenyon baseball team lost both games of a North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader at Oberlin College on Saturday pushing the team's skid to six straight games. Game one went the Yeomen's way by a 6-2 count while game two ended with a 10-7 score.
 
GAME ONE
 
Oberlin pitcher Sean Kiley was sensational as he tossed a complete game, scattered four hits and struck out 13 Lords batters. That strikeout total was the most since March 7, 2009 when Ursinus College fanned 14.
 
The Yeomen wasted little time getting the lead as Brian Carney singled to left center in the first inning bringing home two runs.
 
Three innings later, Oberlin's Amari Newman went first pitch swinging and found a ground ball up the middle which allowed Parker Goldstein and Carney to score.
 
Over the course of the first four frames, the Lords managed just two base runners as Mikey Arman walked and Max Warren tallied a base hit.
 
With a 4-0 lead, the Yeomen added a couple more runs in the sixth. After a single from Ian Dinsmore to left field, a throwing error from Kenyon's third baseman allowed Sam Harris to score. Oberlin's sixth run of the game then came on a Justin Cruz RBI single.
 
The Lords' only scoring of the contest came from Matt Contreras who smacked a two-run bomb in the ninth inning which also scored Phillip Nam.
 
Kenyon had just four hits in the game while Oberlin tallied 12. They were led by Dinsmore's three hits.  
 
GAME TWO
 
The Yeomen got four run-scoring hits in the second inning to take command of game two. Then in the third, Newman singled scoring Quin Butler to push the home team's lead to 5-0.
 
Down by five, the Lords got a little offensive traction in the fourth as Contreras hit his second two-run homer of the series. That brought the tally to 5-2.
 
That slight momentum was overturned, though, by Oberlin in the home half of the fourth. With bases loaded after Brendan Mapes was walked, Carney smacked a grand slam over the left-center field area and gave the Yeomen a 9-2 advantage.
 
Kenyon responded an inning later as Arman and Patrick O'Leary each had RBI doubles before pushing three more across in the seventh.
 
Down 9-4, the Lords got run-scoring singles from Matt von Roemer, O'Leary and Arman in the seventh inning. Oberlin added another run in the seventh bringing the score to 10-7.
 
Over the final two innings, the Lords got three base runners on, but could not do anything with it as reliever Milo Sklar earned his second save of the year.
 
Gaige Howard led the Lords offensively going 3-for-4 with three runs scored while Arman and O'Leary each had two hits and two runs driven in.
 
The two teams will play again tomorrow in another doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.