FORT PIERCE, Fla. – One day shy of closing out its spring break schedule at the Gladwin Sports Complex, the Kenyon College baseball team amassed 32 hits and 30 runs in a doubleheader sweep of the Western Connecticut State University Colonials. The Lords doubled up the Colonials in game one, 18-9, and then broke a late-inning tie to take game two, 12-7. 

In game one, Kenyon racked up 20 hits. Five of those came from senior Matt Contreras, who posted his third career five-hit game by going 5-for-5 with two doubles, two runs scored and two RBI. Junior Joaquin Murrieta added a 3-for-5 performance with two more runs and three RBI.

After Kenyon starter Will Allen yielded a single run in the first inning, the Lords lumber went to work in the second inning, scoring five times on six hits. Alex Gow had the inning's big hit, a bases-loaded clearing triple.

Allen couldn't contain the Colonials in the bottom of the frame. He gave up five and was chased from the mound. The Lords offense, however, bailed him out with another five-spot in the top of the third inning. Kenyon again pounded out six hits in the inning, including doubles from Eric DelRosso, Will Sturgeon, Murrieta and Contreras. That put the Lords ahead for good.

While the Colonials did hang around for a while, Kenyon delivered the back-breaker in the form of a sixth-inning grand slam from sophomore Trenton DiFilippo. He took reliever Dylan Brehm's first pitch deep over the left field wall.

Kenyon freshman Zach Frizzera, who relived Allen, pitched a little more than two innings and earned his first collegiate win. Junior Charlie Bailey tossed the final three innings and collected his first save of the season.

The starters could not contain the offenses in game two, either. Kenyon bats tagged Western Connecticut's Andrew Lojko for four runs in the first inning. Junior Patrick O'Leary closed out the inning with a three-run homer to left center.

The Colonials then got to Kenyon starter Ross Scheinberg for a couple of home runs and moved ahead 5-4 after four innings. They increased the lead to 7-4 in the top fifth inning.

In the bottom of the fifth, Kenyon charged back with a three-run effort to tie the game at 7-7. DiFilippo highlighted the inning with a two-run double.

In the bottom of the sixth, Kenyon put the game away with five more runs. The Lords had three hits, drew a one walk, had a hit batsman and capitalized on a Western Connecticut error. Jimmy Clark accounted for more than half of those five runs when he stroked a bases-loaded double to left center.

That late outburst gave Nathan Chandler the pitching victory. He went three innings, gave up two runs and struck out six for Kenyon.

On the day, Contreras was 7-for-8 with five runs scored and a pair of RBI. He's now batting .481 on the season. Gow was 5-for-8 with three runs scored and seven RBI. DiFilippo also had seven RBI and was 4-for-6 with five runs scored. O'Leary had four hits in the doubleheader, while Murrieta and DelRosso both had three.

Kenyon's final game of the trip with be at 1 p.m. Friday. It's a single, nine-inning game against the College of Mount Saint Vincent.