GRANVILLE, Ohio (May 4, 2022) – The No. 20 nationally-ranked Denison University baseball team hosted its final two home games of the 2022 regular season on Wednesday, and the Big Red finished with a sweep over Oberlin College thanks to wins of 9-4 and 5-1, including a complete game victory with 10 strikeouts for Taylor Perrett in game two.
 
Game 1 (Denison 9, Oberlin 4)

• After two groundouts to start the bottom of the first, a walk by Ari Fierer was followed by an RBI-double down the left field line by Danny Alvarez and then an RBI-single to center by Daniel Spencer to put Denison ahead 2-0.
• In the bottom of the third, another walk by Fierer, this time to lead off the inning, led to another run as he scored from second base on a one-out single through the left side by Jake Welsch.
• In the fourth, Charlie Glennon led off with a single through the left side before Fierer walked for the third time in the game, keeping the inning alive for the second RBI-hit of the game by Alvarez, this time a single to left center to score Glennon from second and make it 4-1 Big Red.
• Welsch added to his RBI total with a two-out, two run-double to right center in the bottom of the sixth to double up Denison's lead from 5-3 to 7-3.
• In the end, Denison scored in every inning except the second.
• Alvarez finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI's while Welsch was 3-for-5 with three RBI's.
• Kenny Lippman (5-1) pitched 5.2 innings allowing five hits, three total runs and two earned runs while striking out 11 to earn the win before George Viebrock earned his second save of the season with 3.1 innings pitched allowing five hits, one run and one walk.
• Lippman has earned either a win or a save in six of his last seven appearances on the mound.

 
Game 2 (Denison 5, Oberlin 1)

• Denison trailed 1-0 after the top of the first in game two, but from there it would be all Perrett (7-1), who pitched four 1-2-3 innings and finished with a line of five hits, one run, one walk and 10 strikeouts across all nine innings.
• Oberlin would not have the lead for long as in the bottom of the first, Eric Colaco led off with a single up the middle, stole second base, and then quickly scored on a double to right center field by Dylan Hunter to tie it. Two battles later, another RBI-double, this time by Alvarez, scored Hunter and put the Big Red ahead 2-1.
• Colaco manufactured another run in the fifth as he came up with a bunt single with one out, stole second base, advanced to third on a fly out to center field by Hunter, and then scored on an infield single to second base by Fierer to make it 3-1.
• Colaco was the lone Big Red player with two hits in game two as he finished 2-for-3 with two runs scored. He also stole two bases during both games.

 
Records:

• No. 20 Denison improves to 27-8 overall, 14-2 in the North Coast Athletic Conference and 14-3 at home. Denison has also now won 10 of its last 11 games against Oberlin (7-27, 3-13), and has swept the Yeomen in each of their last four regular-season matchups.

 
Next Up: Entering the final weekend of the regular season, Denison will wrap up conference action on the road at Wabash College starting at 12 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, before returning to Ohio the next day (Sunday, May 8) to play a nonconference game at Otterbein University at 3 p.m.