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Zach Elsawy
Sejin Kim
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Winner Hiram College HIRB 7-14, 2-3 NCAC
4
Kenyon College KENB 0-1, 0-1 NCAC
Winner
Hiram College HIRB
7-14, 2-3 NCAC
7
Final
4
Kenyon College KENB
0-1, 0-1 NCAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Hiram College HIRB 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 7 10 0
Kenyon College KENB 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 4 8 2

W: S. Javorek (2-1) L: Craig, Patrick (0-1) S: Jacob Kocuba (1)

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Hiram College HIRB 7-15, 2-4 NCAC
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Winner Kenyon College KENB 1-1, 1-1 NCAC
Hiram College HIRB
7-15, 2-4 NCAC
1
Final
2
Kenyon College KENB
1-1, 1-1 NCAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Hiram College HIRB 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 1
Kenyon College KENB 1 0 0 0 0 1 X 2 6 1

W: Richards, Sam (1-0) L: D. Quintero (1-3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Lucien Kisch

Lords get solid pitching in split with Terriers

GAMBIER, Ohio -- The Kenyon College baseball team recorded its first win of the year with an exciting 2-1 triumph in the second game of a tightly contested doubleheader split with the Hiram College Terriers on Saturday at McCloskey Field. 

Those two games were the Lords' first of the season, and their first in over a year after the second half of the 2020 schedule was scratched due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The win nudged Kenyon's record to 1-1 after losing game one to the Terriers 7-4.

In that second game victory, the Lords took control early. In the bottom of the first inning, leadoff man Ryan Page was clipped by a pitch and advanced to second base on an error before Andrew Rabinowitz singled him home for his third RBI of the day, putting Kenyon up 1-0.
 
With starting pitcher Zach Elsawy cruising, the Lords were able to hold onto that lead until the top of the sixth inning. That's when Hiram strung together a single and a double to knot the contest at one apiece. Sam Richards then entered the game in relief of Elsawy and managed to get out of the frame without allowing any more damage. Elsawy finished his day having tossed five and two-thirds innings of one run ball, allowing six hits and two walks while striking out two.

In the bottom of the sixth inning, Kenyon struck back. Left fielder Kyle Dwyer ripped a double down the right field line off of Terries pitcher Daniel Quintero Jr. Ayden Head then drove home Dwyer with a single to left center, pushing the Lords back on top 2-1. 

This time, Kenyon did not squander the lead, as Richards closed out the Terriers with a one-two-three seventh inning, using just five pitches in the inning to record the win and salvage the split for the Lords.

In game one, Hiram (7-15, 2-4 NCAC) capitalized on some Kenyon miscues to put together a seven-run sixth inning, stealing the win from the Lords and starting pitcher Patrick Craig. That Hiram outburst in that inning was fueled by a Kenyon outfield error, followed by an infield error. Scattered among the errors were five hits and a walk for the Terriers, who trailed by four runs heading into the inning.

It was an unfortunate outcome for Craig, who fired five and two-thirds innings and struck out two while yielding nine hits and a walk. Of the seven runs he gave up, only two were earned.

Prior to the Terriers' big inning, the Lords jumped out to a 4-0 advantage. The team's first two runs came in the third inning. Jake Brown drew a two-out walk and the following batter, Rabinowitz, stepped to the plate and slugged the first pitch he saw over the left field fence for a two-run homer.

In the bottom of the fourth, Kenyon mashed another two-run homer off Hiram starting pitcher Stephen Javorek. This time it was Will Sturgeon who launched one to left. Ahead of him on the trip around the bases was Brent Henderson, who got aboard via an infield single.

Rabinowitz finished with a team-high two hits for Kenyon, which stroked eight hits as a team.

Joel Biery relieved Craig to get Kenyon out of the sixth inning. Coming back out to pitch the seventh, Biery escaped a bases loaded jam with a key strikeout of Terriers shortstop Michael Corsillo. However, the Lords failed to plate any runs in the bottom frame and wound up dropping their season opener.

The Lords will play another doubleheader against the Terriers tomorrow, this time at Hiram. The first of those two games will begin at 1 p.m. 
 
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