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Oberlin, Ohio – The Oberlin College baseball team started its conference weekend in grand fashion, sweeping a doubleheader from Allegheny College on Saturday afternoon at Dill Field. The Yeomen needed 10 innings to win game one 5-4 in walk-off fashion, and then rode the momentum to a convincing 10-5 win in the nightcap.
 
In the lid-lifter the Yeomen and Gators traded punches all game long, but luckily Oberlin was the team left standing when things were all said and done. Sophomore Mitch Novak started the 10^th with a double down the left line and would move up to third on a fly out to deep center. With two outs, Kevin Verne - who entered the game back in the eighth to pinch run – came up to the plate for the first time with a chance to be a hero. The Shaker Heights, Ohio, native did not disappoint as he fell behind in the count 1-2, but was able to poke an outside pitch up the right side of the infield that forced the first baseman to come charging in, but he was unable to make the play as Verne hustled down the line while Novak came in to score the game-winning run.
 
The Yeomen had a chance to win it in regulation as sophomore Andrew Hutson started the bottom of the seventh with a double to the gap in right center and would then advance to third with one out. However, later in the inning Hutson was caught too far off of third on a comebacker to the pitcher and was retired on the play.
 
In the top of the eighth, the Gators would manufacture a run on a sac fly by Eric Weyant, but the Yeomen would answer back to tie it the home half of the inning. A two-out walk to Ben Whitener coupled with a passed ball put runners on the corners for Jeff Schweighoffer. The second-year standout would then belt a hard-hit ball off the glove of the third basemen to allow McDonald to race home.
 
The Gators threatened again in the ninth off of Yeomen reliever Mike McDonald as they loaded the bases on two walks, and a fielder's choice. However, the Yeomen sidearmer was able to escape unscathed as Matt Sardini lined out weakly to shortstop to end the threat and leave the bases loaded. The players left on base were just three of the 15 total runners the Gators stranded in the game.  After the Yeomen went quietly in the 10^th, the Gators would again have the Yeomen faithful worried as three straight two-out singles loaded the bases, but yet again McDonald was unharmed as he got Joe Killian to groundout to third to end the inning and set the stage for the end-game heroics.
 
Yeomen starter Mattie DeDoes and Gators' starter Kyle Davis were locked up in a pitcher's duel in the early part of the game, but Allegheny was first to get on the board with a pair in the fourth and one in the fifth to go up 3-0.
 
Oberlin would get back to even by plating three runs of its own in the bottom of the fifth. A bases-loaded opposite-field single to right by Robin Witjes plated Schweighoffer for the Yeomen's first run. Ryan Bliss would follow with an RBI groundout, before Novak would hit into a run-producing fielder's choice. The game would remain tied at 3-3 after seven innings.
 
DeDoes worked his way through five innings, scattering seven hits while walking just one. He allowed three runs (two earned) over 103 total pitches.  Justin Kidd came out of the pen and tossed three innings as he gave up just one run on three hits. McDonald earned the win, improving to 3-2, despite walking three and giving up three hits in two innings.
 
Davis worked 7.2 innings, throwing 124 pitches, 84 of which went for strikes.  The Yeomen touched him up for just seven hits and four runs (three earned). He struck out five and walked just one in the no-decision. Paul Vojtek took the loss.
 
In game two the Yeomen pounded out 17 hits as they chased reining National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Pitcher of the Week Steven Ramsdell after just three innings. The sophomore southpaw came in highly touted at 4-0 with a 1.65 ERA and an opposing batting average of .155; however, the Yeomen roughed him up for four runs on six hits and four walks.
 
The Yeomen would plate three off of Ramsdell in the second with the first coming off a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch to Oberlin catcher Colin Brown. Witjes and Novak would also add RBI's in the inning. Oberlin would tack on a single tally in the third on Daniel Baldocchi's bases-loaded single through the left side to score McDonald.
 
Pitching with a 4-0 lead, Yeomen rookie Harrison Wollman cruised through the first three innings. The Gators did push two across in the fourth, but he left with the lead and earned his first collegiate win. The right-hander scattered six hits and four walks along the way, but did strikeout two.
 
With the score 4-2, Oberlin would continue to stay aggressive at the plate as Hutson would add an RBI single in the fifth, before the entire lineup exploded for five in the fifth as they sent 10 men to the plate in the rally. McDonald, Schweighoffer (2), Hutson, and Blaise Dolcemaschio all had RBI's in the barrage.
 
Bliss entered in the fifth on the mound for Wollman and tossed the final three innings to earn his first collegiate save.
 
With the sweep, Oberlin improved to 13-11 overall and 6-2 in NCAC East play. Allegheny fell to 14-7 and 4-2 in league play. These same two teams will complete their four-game series tomorrow with game one of the twinbill set for a 12 p.m. start.