Wooster, Ohio – The Oberlin College baseball team earned a key doubleheader split against The College of Wooster Fighting Scots, taking game two in 10 innings 7-3 after letting game one slip away 16-6.
 
In the lid-lifter the Yeomen led for the majority of the contest, taking a 6-3 lead in into the bottom of the sixth. Wooster would tie the game at 6-6 before erupting for 10 runs in the seventh to trigger the mercy rule.
 
However, Oberlin showed its resiliency to bounce back in game two to defeat one of the nation's top teams.
 
The Yeomen led 3-0 going into the home-half of the seventh as sophomore southpaw David Gaetano had the Scots' hitters baffled through the front six innings, but he would ultimately be lifted after surrendering a walk and a double to the first two hitters in the seventh.  The Scots would go on and tie the game as Michael Wielansky, Jamie Lackner and Garrett Crum all had a RBI in the inning.
 
In six-plus innings, Gaetano sprinkled seven hits and issued just one walk and one hit batter. He struck out two and induced 11 fly ball outs. The Clarksville, Tennessee, native threw 113 pitches with 63 going for strikes in the no-decision.
 
After a rocky appearance in game one, it was sophomore Noah Gear who earned the win as he tossed 3.2 innings of no-hit ball. Fighting through early command issues with two walks and a hit batter, Gear settled in and did not allow a base runner in the ninth or 10^th.
 
Oberlin took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first as rookie Amari Newman came through with an RBI single through the left side to score Brendan Mapes. The Yeomen would extend the lead to 3-0 in the fifth as junior Quin Butler belted a two-out two-run home run over the wall in left off of Wooster starter Tyler Schuch. It was Butler's second round-tripper of the season.
 
With the score tied at 3-3 in the ninth, the Yeomen had runners on the corners with two outs, but Newman was called out on strikes to end the inning.
 
However, after a quick shutdown inning by Gear, the Yeomen went right back to work at the plate in the 10^th, breaking the game open with four runs in the frame. Senior co-captain Mike Masella got the rally going with a double to the gap in right center and he would come around to score on Derek Martin's perfectly placed ball to left to put the Yeomen out in front for good.
 
Not content with just a one-run lead, Sam Harris followed with a single before sophomore Ian Dinsmore rapped a two-run double to the gap in left center. Brian Carney kept the train moving with an opposite-field RBI single to chase relief pitcher James Usher from the game.
 
Gear would sit down the side in order in the Wooster 10^th as he is now 1-1 on the season.
 
Oberlin had 14 hits in the game with Butler leading the charge by going 3-for-4 with two walks, two RBI and a run scored. Carney, Justin Cruz, and Milo Sklar also had two hits each in the win.
 
In game one, the Yeomen jumped on the Scots early, plating four runs in the top of the first against senior starter Michael Houdek.
 
Dinsmore and Carney started the game with back-to-back singles and Butler would later follow with a two-RBI double to right center. Sklar, who started the game on the mound, hit for himself and had an RBI fielder's choice as well. The final run would came across on a 1^st-and-3^rd double steal play where Newman raced home prior to Mapes being tagged out in a rundown.
 
The Scots would cut the lead in half, plating a pair in the bottom of the first and they would later make it 4-3 after scratching out a single tally in the fourth.
 
In the sixth, Sklar would really help his own cause as he sent a two-run home run over the wall in right to stake himself and the Yeomen to a 6-2 lead. It was his first-career homer.
 
However, things would unravel for the sidearmer in the bottom of the sixth, as the first five Wooster hitters would reach via two walks, a double, and two singles. The big blow came courtesy of Jacob Stuursma who had a two-run single to chase Sklar and tie the game at 6-6.
 
Sklar's final line was 5.1 innings, 10 hits, six earned runs, four walks and one strike out in the no-decision.
 
Unfortunately, the Yeomen bullpen was unable to pickup their starter as the Scots would score 10 runs on six hits in the seventh to put the game away.
 
Carney led the Yeomen at the plate, as he was 3-for-4 with a double and a run scored. Mapes also had two hits, including a double as the pair combined for five of the Yeomen's eight hits in the game.
 
Oberlin and Wooster will run it right back tomorrow with another doubleheader starting at 12 p.m.