Gambier, Ohio - Behind dominant pitching performances from freshmen Calvin Burkholder and Grayson Black, the Oberlin College baseball team went on the road and swept conference-rival Kenyon College by the scores of 4-2 and 2-1 on Wednesday afternoon. 
  
It was nearly five years ago to the day when the Yeomen last beat Kenyon, taking both ends of a doubleheader against the then-Lords 8-2 and 9-2 on April 27, 2019, at Dill Field. 

Burkholder (3-2) twirled his second complete-game gem of the season in game one. The Aurora, Colorado, native scattered seven hits and went walk-free while fanning three. Of the two runs the Owls scored, just one was earned. 

Oberlin did all of its offensive output in the third inning, using five hits and plating four runs in the frame. Singles by Zach Masnikoff and Brady Groves set the table for the Yeomen's top RBI guy in Ethan Hurwitz and the junior from Rochester, New York, delivered once again with a clutch two-run double to the gap in right-center to run his RBI total to 31. 

The rally rolled on with a perfectly executed squeeze bunt by David Curtin and then Anton Shelton followed with a two-out, run-scoring infield single that allowed Kyle Baxt to score. 

The Owls would take advantage of two Yeomen errors to post a single tally in the fourth and would then cut the lead in half in the sixth when Dustin Lee poked a two-out RBI single into left field. 

However, Burkholder would respond by sitting down the Owls in order in the seventh and eighth innings before working around a two-out single in the ninth to finish off his masterpiece. 

Oberlin had seven hits in the game with Masnikoff and Hurwitz accounting for two apiece. 

Making just the second pitching appearance of his collegiate career and first-career start, Black was simply sensational through 8.2 innings, surrendering just one run on five hits and two walks to go along with two strikeouts. 

After retiring the first two hitters in the ninth, a walk and a single put the potential game-tying runs aboard and chased Black from the game. Senior Luigi Smarro would come out of the Yeomen bullpen and was greeted rather rudely by Luke Meister as he sent Smarro's first offering back up the middle to score a run. After a walk loaded the bases, Smarro would bear down and get Edwin Groff to bounce out to Curtin at the third base to finish off his second save of the season and fourth of his career. 

It was a 1-0 Yeomen lead for nearly the entire game as Groves led off the game with a single and would come in to score on Curtin's two-out RBI single down the left field line. 

Oberlin would thankfully pick up an all-important insurance run in the eighth when senior Harry Kaplan plated classmate Joe Strabley from second base with an RBI single into left field. 

Both teams finished with six hits with Groves and Curtin each producing two for Oberlin. 

The Yeomen have won three in a row to run their record to 14-17 overall and 3-7 in the NCAC. Kenyon dropped back to 18-11 and 5-5 in the league.

Oberlin returns home to host Wabash College in an NCAC doubleheader on Saturday starting at noon.