Oberlin, Ohio – The winning ways continued for the Oberlin College baseball team as they swept both ends of Sunday's doubleheader against the visiting Little Giants of Wabash College. The Yeomen pulled out the opener 1-0 and took the nightcap 10-4.
 
In the process, Oberlin tied the over single-season wins record and established a new school-best mark for conference wins in a season as they moved to 22-17 overall and 12-6 in NCAC play. In 2013, the Yeomen finished the season 22-21 and were 11-8 in league action.
 
The Yeomen, who at one point just three weeks ago were 1-5 in conference play, have now won 12 of their last 14 games with game three of the crossover series set for tomorrow at 11 a.m.
 
In the lid-lifter Sean Kiley, David Gaetano, Nicolas Morgan, and Milo Sklar combined for the complete-game shutout, marking the Yeomen's second blanking of the season.
 
Kiley and Gaetano were both on pitch counts as they came in looking to stay fresh for next weekend's NCAC Tournament, but to not overwork.
 
Kiley threw 63 pitches on in four innings, allowing just three hits – two sun-aided doubles and a bunt single – while fanning four and walking none.  Gaetano followed with 3.2 innings in which he struck out three and walked one on 68 pitches.
 
However, it would be Morgan who ultimately got the win, needing just seven pitches to do so. After a five-pitch walk, he got the final out of the eighth.
 
It was 0-0 until the bottom of the eighth as Jensen Kirch matched the Yeomen hurlers pitch-for-pitch for much of the afternoon. However, he would get into a jam in the eighth, as a walk, an infield single by Ian Dinsmore, and a hit batter would load the bases with one out for Brendan Mapes. The sophomore from Mount Vernon, Ohio, didn't hit it far, but put in a perfect spot as he muscled a slow roller towards the first-base side that allowed pinch runner Maxx McGee to race home for the game's lone run.
 
All-time saves leader Milo Sklar would come on to work the ninth, but back-to-back one-out singles put runners on the corners and had the Yeomen faithful on the edge of their seat. However, Brooklyn, New York native was able to lock down his seventh save of the year to move into sole possession on the all-time single-season list while increasing his school-best career mark to 13. 
 
Sklar would get ahead of Wabash centerfielder Nick Chao 0-2 but would grove him a pitch he could handle, but thankfully it was in the direction of second baseman Mike Masella who jumped up and snagged the line drive and alertly threw back to first for the game-ending double play.
 
Both teams had their chances to score earlier in the game as the Yeomen stranded seven, while Wabash left nine men on base.
 
The Yeomen had the bases loaded with nobody out in the fifth, but Amari Newman lined into a gut-wrenching inning-ending double play to keep the game scoreless. Wabash would loaded them up with one way in the seventh, but Gaetano got Chao to hit into a 4-6-3 double play to end the threat.
 
Oberlin had just five hits in the game with Brian Carney leading the way by going 2-for-3 with a double and a walk.
 
The Little Giants scored a pair in the top of the first to start game two, but they would chip away and get back to even by posting single tallies in the third and fourth innings.
 
In the third, Brendan Mapes had a two-out RBI single to score Dinsmore, and in the fourth the Yeomen would square the game up at 2-2 two-out single through the right side that scored Quin Butler as he led off the inning by getting aboard via an error.
 
After a rocky first inning, sophomore Zachary Steer settled in and got through four innings without allowing any more damage before he turned things over to Noah Gear in the fifth.
 
Oberlin would go out in front in the bottom of the sixth. Carney, who extended his hitting streak to 14 games, led off the inning with a double to right field and would come around to score on Sklar's single back up the box. The Yeomen would claim a 4-2 lead on a sac fly to center by Newman that plated Butler.
 
Unfortunately, the Little Giants answered right back, using three hits to post a pair in the top of the seventh to once again tie the game.
 
However, the Yeomen would not be denied as they responded in the home-half of the frame to go back out in front for good. Mapes singled through the right side and would score on Carney's opposite-field double down the left field line to make it 5-4.
 
With the lead in hand, senior Joe Greenberg entered on the mound and worked a clean eighth as he sat the down the Little Giants in order on just seven pitches to earn a hold.  Gear would move to 6-1 on the year after working three full innings, allowing the two runs on four hits.
 
The Yeomen would leave no doubt in the eventual outcome, scoring five runs in the bottom of the eighth to break the game open as they sent 10 men to the plate in the rally.  Darren Zaslau, Carney, Butler (2) and Sklar all had an RBI in the inning.
 
Oberlin finished with 13 hits in the game with Mapes and Carney leading the way with three each. Newman, Sklar and Dinsmore each had a pair in the win.
 
The Yeomen and Little Giants will complete the three-game set tomorrow at 11 a.m.