Gambier, Ohio - DePauw scored two runs in the eighth inning of the second game of its North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader at Kenyon and held on for a 4-3 win which followed an 8-1 loss in the opener. The Tigers moved to 9-18 overall and 2-6 in the NCAC with the Owls now 10-11 overall and 3-3 in conference play.
In the opener, Kenyon scored single runs in the third and fifth innings as both came on Edwin Groff RBI singles.
Nate Heflin's sixth-inning double plated
Drew Straub to cut the deficit in half.
Kenyon scored three in the sixth as Luke Meister plated Niko Price with a single and Nate Rosen's base hit drove in Tyler Nee and Meister.
Rosen's eighth-inning singled scored Meister and Dustin Lee followed with a double that brought home Groff and Parker Gibbons.
Louis Florida and
Cuinn Morrow each had two of DePauw's eighth hits, while Rosen and Groff each had three of Kenyon's 11 hits.
Jamison Lewis dropped to 2-5, while Frank Lynch improved to 4-1. Christian Harris collected his first save.
In the second game,
Grady Johnson singled home
Carter Knoll in the second and
Max Bondi scored Florida in the fifth with a single.
The Tigers maintained the 2-0 lead until the seventh. Nee's single scored Lee before Meister reached on a fielder's choice that brought home Resnick. Nee came home on a steal as Meister stole second as well.
Bond's one-out single in the eighth was followed by Straub's two-run homer which gave the Tigers the lead for good.
Bond had three of DePauw's six hits with Nee totaling two of Kenyon's five hits.
Charlie Hawk improved to 1-4 in relief of
Jaylen Windmiller who struck out six and walked one in 6 1/3 innings.
Jake Thometz pitched a scoreless ninth for his second save. Jack Enger dropped to 0-1.
DePauw travels to Otterbein tomorrow for a 1 p.m. game.
