FORT PIERCE, Fla. – Still searching for its first win of the season, the Kenyon College baseball team absorbed another gut-wrenching loss Friday. This time around it was the Drew University Rangers who broke an eighth-inning tie with a pair of runs that led to a 6-4 defeat for the Lords.

Kenyon, now 0-6, has lost its last four games by a combined total of six runs. Drew, on the other hand, has won four of its last five games and improved to 9-2 with the win over Kenyon.

The Lords started out well, getting RBI hits from Trenton DiFilippo and Mikey Arman in the first and second innings, respectively. DiFilippo's single to left field in the first inning scored Matt von Roemer, who currently leads the team with seven runs scored in six games played. Arman, who moved into the leadoff spot and leads the Lords with a .393 batting average, singled home Alex Hoskins in the second.

That chased Drew starting pitcher, Joe Dahut, from the mound after two innings. Meanwhile, Alex Gow, Kenyon's starter, worked into the sixth inning. He got a little wild in the third, giving up one run after hitting two batters, and then yielding a game-tying solo home run in the fourth.

The Rangers got to Gow for one more run in the sixth, sending him away with a 3-2 deficit. Overall, Gow gave up the three runs on seven hits and three walks. He also struck out three.

In the top of the seventh, Drew reliever Davis Fouts ran out of gas and the Lords capitalized. Using two walks and a hit batsmen, Kenyon regained the lead after Patrick O'Leary ripped a two-out, bases-loaded single that scored both von Roemer and Gow.

In the bottom of the seventh, Kenyon reliever Eric DelRosso gave up an unearned run that knotted the game, 4-4. Then, in the bottom of the eighth inning, Jesse Bogacz came on for the Lords, but didn't have much luck, either. He walked the leadoff man and, three batters later, gave up a two-run homer that proved to be the game-winner.

Back at the plate, Arman finished Friday's game 3-for-5 with an RBI, as he accounted for a third of Kenyon's nine hits. DiFilippo was 2-for-3 with another RBI. Gow, von Roemer, O'Leary and Hoskins accounted for the rest of the Lords' hits.

Drew also accumulated nine hits with Joseph Grossane recording the solo shot in the fourth inning and Ryan Sabbag launching the two-run homer in the eighth.