The Case Western Reserve University baseball team overcame a three-run deficit, but an eighth-inning run by the Yeomen proved to be the difference in a 4-3 setback to Oberlin College at Dill Field in Oberlin, Ohio on Thursday.

The Spartans fell to 14-12 with the loss, while Oberlin improved to 9-10.

Senior catcher Jack Anderson reached base all five of his trips to the plate and finished with three of the team's seven hits, going three-for-three with two walks and a run and extending his hitting streak to 22-straight games. Junior third baseman Zack Carinci stretched his hitting streak to 17 games, going one-for-three at the plate. First-year second baseman Jasiah Harris, sophomore outfielder Nick Harms, and first-year outfielder Matt Trout each added hits during the game.

Oberlin took a 3-0 lead in the third inning with three runs against CWRU first-year Adam Hamilton, who made the first start of his collegiate career in the game. However, solid relief outings from sophomore Jackson Brewer, who went two scoreless innings, senior Sankalp Doshi, who went two-thirds of an inning without allowing a run, and junior Patrick O'Connor, who pitched a perfect inning and a third, helped to hold the Yeomen to just the three runs until late in the game.

After a slow start to the game, the Spartans offense struck for three runs in the sixth inning to even the score. The first five batters of the inning all reached base with Anderson walking to lead off the frame, followed by three-straight singles from Harris, Harms, and Carinci. Harms' single played Anderson to make the score 3-1, and after Carinci's hit loaded the bases, senior designated hitter Trey Haley drew a walk to force the second run of the inning across the plate. Trout followed with a sacrifice fly that scored Harms and tied the game at 3-3.

The game remained tied until the bottom of the eighth when a sacrifice fly scored the eventual game-winning run for the Yeomen. Anderson's third hit of the game came with two outs in the ninth and put the potential game-tying run on the basepaths, but the Spartans could not score the equalizer.

Oberlin's Ty Weatherspoon pitched eight innings to earn the win, improving to 2-0 on the year, while Vince Dolcemaschio pitched a scoreless ninth to record his first save. CWRU junior Reece Marley allowed an unearned run in the bottom of the ninth to suffer the loss and fall to 3-2 for the campaign.

Case Western Reserve will open a four-game series against New York University at Maimonides Park in Brooklyn, New York on Friday, April 14 at 3:00 p.m.