While The College of Wooster baseball team could not slow No. 1 Denison University on Sunday, it did score more runs off its ace than any other team this spring. Denison won game one 20-4 and got the sweep with a 13-5 nightcap at Art Murray Field.

Denison (27-1, 8-0 North Coast Athletic Conference) ace Will Rettig entered with an 8-0 record and a miniscule 1.38 ERA and had not allowed more than two runs against in a start this spring. Wooster (21-12, 4-6 NCAC) first-year right fielder Owen Sherrill changed that with a fourth-inning solo homer for the Scots' third run. The Scots' fourth run came on junior third baseman Zack Barienbrock's fifth-inning single that scored first-year center fielder Matt Herlick.

Earlier in the game, senior first baseman Ryan Kramer moved up to eighth in program history with his 37th homer. It was a solo shot that pulled Wooster within 2-1 in the bottom of the first.

Wooster could not slow Denison's Jack Lutte, who finished a triple shy of the cycle in game one. He came to the plate in the sixth needing the triple, but instead launched his second homer of the day over the right field fence. He was 4-for-4 with six RBI and three runs scored in the opening game.

Kramer had two of Wooster's eight hits and was the lone Scot with a multi-hit opening game.

Rettig is now 9-0 on the year. He allowed four runs on eight hits in six innings. Wooster sophomore Dame Frayne dropped to 5-2 and allowed nine runs on nine hits in four innings.

Denison's power surged in game two, as the Big Red clubbed six homers, including two from shortstop Kelly Crittenberger and first baseman Max Fishbein.

Wooster broke through in the third, the lone frame of the game where Denison starter Robbie Lee struggled with command. First-year right fielder Bennett Grossman was hit by a pitch and moved around the bases aided by two Lee wild pitches, the second of which he scored on. In between Herlick scratched out an infield single.

Lee upped his record to 6-0. The senior allowed three runs on four hits in six innings and struck out seven.

Wooster sophomore Michael Scarpelli fell to 3-4. He allowed six runs on eight hits in four innings.

Senior catcher Colin Leslie was Wooster's bright spot offensively, hitting a two-run homer in the eighth inning. Erik Sundgren went 2-for-4 with four RBI to pace Denison.

Next, Wooster hosts Kenyon College (13-17, 2-8 NCAC) at noon on Saturday, April 25. Wooster is set to honor its first regional team prior to first pitch.