OBERLIN, Ohio – The Oberlin College pitching staff limited the Kenyon College baseball team to its lowest combined run total in a North Coast Athletic Conference series on Saturday as the Yeomen swept the doubleheader. Oberlin earned an 8-2 win in the opener before prevailing 9-2 in the second contest.
GAME ONE
Ian Dinsmore tossed a complete game, struck out six and induced a combined 20 groundouts and fly balls to assist the Yeomen in the opener.
Through the first four innings, Dinsmore had only allowed singles to
Alex Gow and
Patrick O'Leary before the Lords tied things up at 1-1 in the fifth.
In that frame,
Andrew Rabinowitz connected on a 1-2 pitch with a single through the left side. Following a couple of outs, freshman
Will Sturgeon added a shot to right field and pushed his fellow classmate across home.
Oberlin then responded to go in front for good. In the home half of the fifth, Kenyon had two out after Lawrence Hamilton's liner was snagged by third baseman
Paul Siciliano. However, the Yeomen pulled through as Alexis Castillo ripped a bases-clearing double to push the score to 4-1. Oberlin added one more on a RBI single from Jacob Thompson.
Kenyon scored once more, and that came in the sixth as O'Leary doubled to left field and pushed
Eric DelRosso to home plate. Outside of that hit, Dinsmore allowed just one other Lord to reach scoring position.
GAME TWO
Oberlin scored the game's first three runs through the first three innings before the Lords had a chance to crack at that deficit.
In the fourth, Kenyon was on the cusp of getting on the scoreboard. The Lords had bases loaded with just one out; however, Yeomen pitcher Zachary Steer struck out
J.J. Conway and induced a line-out from Joaquin Murrietta to end the threat.
That sparked the home team to pull away for good. Hamilton tallied the team's fourth run on an RBI single which plated Brendan Mapes. Later, Parker Goldstein and Jack Marsjanik drove in runs to move the tally to 6-0.
The Yeomen added one more in the sixth before Kenyon finally broke the 8-0 deficit. In the seventh, Gow singled to left field and scored Sturgeon. A frame later,
Brent Henderson tripled and drove home
Ryan Page.
Castillo tallied the home team's final run in the eighth with a two-out, one-run double to right center.
On the mound, Steer earned the win as he tossed six innings, struck out five and induced nine fly-ball outs.
The Lords were led by Sturgeon's three hits while four others collected a pair.
Kenyon, which fell to 19-14 and 6-8 in NCAC play, is two games back of fourth place. The top four teams in the NCAC standings make the conference tournament which starts in two weeks. The Lords will look to bounce back on May 1 when they host Allegheny College – the current fourth-place team – starting at 1 p.m.
