GREENCASTLE, Ind. – One bad inning cost the Kenyon College baseball team the first game of its three-game North Coast Athletic Conference Crossover Series. DePauw University rallied for six runs in the bottom of the eighth inning Saturday and dealt the visiting Lords a 10-6 defeat.

The game was the first of three in the Crossover Series, which pits East Division teams against West Division teams. The games count as conference contests and the top two teams in each division, with the best overall conference record, move on to the double-elimination tournament that decides the NCAC champion.

DePauw (28-8, 11-4 NCAC) got off to a great start, scoring three runs in the first inning off Kenyon starter Jesse Bogacz. The Tigers used two walks, two singles and a two-run double to break out to a 3-0 lead.

After that, Bogacz settled down and allowed just one more run over the next five innings. That gave the Kenyon offense enough time to get back into the game.

In the top of fifth, a Max Warren RBI groundout got the Lords on the board. DePauw answered with a run in bottom of the inning, but Kenyon blew things open in the top of the sixth. Drawing six walks, the Lords piled up five runs in the inning and took a 6-4 lead. DePauw starter Mike Hammel lost his touch and yielded three walks and a couple of singles. Reliever Brayden White then took over for the Tigers, but he gave up three walks and a sacrifice fly.

Brad Clegg replaced Bogacz on the mound for Kenyon and made it through the seventh inning unscathed. Will Oakley went to the mound in the eighth inning and things did not go well for him. DePauw roughed him up for five singles. Luke Calcei then replaced Oakley, but he gave up a single and a double. In all, the Tigers scored six runs in the inning and put the game away.

DePauw finished the game with 16 hits, compared to seven for Kenyon. Matt von Roemer and Alec Manning were the only two Lords with two hits. The bottom three in the Kenyon order—Matt Contreras, Manning and Eric DelRosso—each scored once and had an RBI.

The Lords (16-22, 5-12 NCAC) will finish off their season tomorrow with two more games at DePauw. The first of those two is scheduled for a 11 a.m. start.