Oberlin, Ohio - The Oberlin College baseball team knocked off the third-ranked Yellow Jackets of Baldwin Wallace, 5-3, on Sunday afternoon at Dill Field. 

The victory snapped an eight-game slide for the Yeomen and marked their first win since March 30 as they moved to 12-17 on the year, surpassing last season's win total. 

Rookie right-hander Davis Hays was impressive on the bump as he left with the lead after six strong innings, allowing just four hits and two runs (one earned) to accompany a pair of strikeouts. 

Freshman Brady Groves led off the game with a triple and would come in to score when Ethan Hurwitz reached on an error. 

The Yeomen would make it a 3-0 game in the second as a leadoff walk to Anton Shelton and a bunt single from Grayson Black set the table. Zach Masnikoff dropped down a beautifully executed squeeze bunt to plate the first run of the frame and senior Harry Kaplan followed with an RBI fielder's choice groundout. 

BW would get on the board in the fifth on a Nolan Kellicker run-scoring groundout before former Yeomen first baseman Max Anastasio poked a two-out RBI single through the right side to shrink the Oberlin lead down to one. 

A towering home run over the wall in left field by Mally Kilbane tied the game at 3-3 in the top of the seventh but Oberlin would go back out in front in the home-half of the inning when Kyle Baxt lifted a sacrifice fly to score Groves. 

Senior Luigi Smarro would shut down the Yellow Jackets in the eighth and Oberlin would pick up a big insurance run in the bottom of the inning when Masnikoff turned on a 1-0 pitch and dumped it into right field to score Black.

Smarro would then work around a one-out hit batter in the ninth to lock down his first save of the season and third of his career, getting Anastasio to ground into a fielder's choice to end the game. 

Both teams finished with six hits with Groves accounting for two of the Yeomen's total. 

Oberlin will go right back to work on Tuesday afternoon as Chatham University comes to town for a 4:30 matinee.