Oberlin, Ohio – The Oberlin College baseball team earned a doubleheader sweep over the visiting Kenyon College Lords on Saturday afternoon, taking game one 6-2 before hanging on for a 10-7 win in the nightcap.
 
The Yeomen have now won four straight to even up their conference mark at 5-5 and they are now 14-15 overall.
 
Junior Sean Kiley turned in a complete game masterpiece in the lid-lifter, striking out a career-high 13 in the triumph to run his record to 4-3 on the season. The Studio City, California, native was sensational as he got through 26 outs before allowing a run as Matt Contreras lifted a two-run home run over the wall in left with two outs in the ninth.
 
Kiley surrendered just four hits and two walks on 127 pitches, 88 of which were strikes. He struck out the first five Kenyon hitters of the game and fanned 10 over the front five innings alone. Additionally, he sat down 12 in a row between the third and sixth innings.
 
The Yeomen wasted no time staking Kiley to an early lead, plating two runs in the home-half of the first off of Jesse Bogacz as senior Brian Carney rapped a two-run single to the gap in left in center to score Justin Cruz and Ian Dinsmore.
 
Carney started the Yeomen fourth with a single and would come around to score on Amari Newman's two-RBI single back up the box that also plated Parker Goldstein to make it 4-0 Yeomen.
 
With Kiley dealing that lead had to seem insurmountable for the Lords, but Oberlin would add on a pair in the sixth for good measure. A Lords' error allowed the first run to come across and Cruz would take advantage of the extra out as he delivered a run-scoring single up the middle to cap the Yeomen's scoring.
 
Oberlin had 12 hits in the game with Dinsmore leading the way with three to go along with two runs score. Brendan Mapes and Carney each had two hits in the win.
 
In game two, Oberlin had a comfortable 9-2 lead in hand through four innings, but the situation tightened up late. After scoring two in the fifth the Lords would tack on three more in the seventh to cut the Yeomen lead down to 9-7.
 
Junior side-arm specialist Milo Sklar entered with two outs in the seventh, needing just one pitch to squash the threat and leave the bases-loaded. He would pitch around a lead-off single in the eighth and fight through a walk and hit-batter in the ninth to secure his second save of the season and eighth of his career.
 
Oberlin jumped on Lords starter Will Allen for four runs in the second on five hits. Mike Masella, Sam Harris, Dinsmore and Mapes each racked up an RBI in the inning.
 
The Yeomen would post a single tally in the third as Newman dropped in a perfectly-place single in shallow right field to plate Quin Butler.
 
The Lords would get on the board with two in the fourth, but the Yeomen would get those runs back and then some on one swing of the bat as Carney belted an opposite-field grand slam over the wall in left field to chase Allen from the game and make it 9-2.
 
Yeomen starter David Gaetano would surrender two more runs in the fifth, and ultimately pitch into the sixth before being lifted from the game. He would get his second win of the season going six-plus innings, allowing seven runs (six earned) on nine hits. He struck out one and walked one.
 
Nicholas Morgan came on in relief of Gaetano and would get the first two outs in the seventh before giving way to Sklar.
 
After seeing their lead shrink to two, Dinsmore would add on an insurance run for the Yeomen with a RBI single in the bottom of the seventh to cap the game's scoring.
 
Oberlin had 10 hits in the game with Dinsmore and Butler led the charge with two each.
 
The losses dropped the Lords back to 13-18 overall and 5-9 in the NCAC East.
 
The same two teams will complete the four-game series tomorrow afternoon with another doubleheader. First pitch of game one is set for 1 p.m.