OBERLIN, Ohio – Oberlin College earned its first four-game sweep of Kenyon College since 1988 on Sunday as the Yeomen won another North Coast Athletic Conference baseball doubleheader at Dill Field. The losses moved Kenyon's losing skid to eight games and record to 13-20 and 5-11 in conference play.
 
GAME ONE
 
A grand slam in the fourth inning broke a 2-2 tie and the Yeomen pitching staff followed allowing just three hits to Kenyon from the fifth and to the end of the game.
 
Oberlin got out to a 2-0 lead in the second as Quin Butler connected with a sacrifice fly. Later, Parker Goldstein scored from third as the Lords got into a rundown with a Yeomen base runner attempting to steal.
 
Following a scoreless third, Kenyon was able to tie things up in the top of the fourth.
 
Mikey Arman led off the inning with a two-bagger to left center and two batters later, Phillip Nam drove him in with a single through the left side. In the very next at-bat, Matt Contreras connected with single to left field which scored Patrick O'Leary.
 
The Lords got two more base runners into scoring position after that, but a pair of groundouts ended any chance of Kenyon taking the lead.
 
With the score knotted up at 2, Oberlin went ahead for good in the home half of the fourth. Brian Carney led off the inning with a triple and a few batters later, Mike Masella hit an infield single to load the bases. Jack Brewster followed with a grand slam to left center pushing Oberlin back in front 6-2.
 
Kenyon's only hits the rest of the way came from two in the sixth from Contreras and Gaige Howard, and one in the eighth by Arman.
 
GAME TWO
 
The Lords were down 3-1 in the top of the ninth and had bases loaded, but a strikeout and a double play were turned by Oberlin's defense ending the game.
 
Oberlin went ahead 2-0 in the first as Butler hit a two-out, two-run double to center field plating Carney and Brendan Mapes.
 
On the other side, Kenyon's bats struggled through the first seven innings. There were just three hits, only three runners reached scoring position and the Lords also grounded into two double plays.
 
Finally in the eighth frame, the Lords got their first run. In the second at-bat of the inning, Howard came up with a double, and he later scored on a throwing error by Oberlin's shortstop. Kenyon got another runner in scoring position, Arman, but a groundout and flyout were induced by Yeomen reliever Milo Sklar.
 
The Yeomen added another run – their third – in the bottom of the eighth before Kenyon had one last opportunity in the ninth.
 
Nam and Contreras each singled to start the inning and Max Warren followed with a walk to load the bases with no outs. But Sklar found a strikeout and then turned a groundball back to the pitching mound into a double play giving Oberlin victory.
 
Next up for the Lords is a non-conference doubleheader at home against Wilmington College on April 26 starting at 1.