The College of Wooster baseball team's pitching was dominant, and senior Ryan Kramer hit a pair of milestones in Saturday's 5-2 and 11-1 North Coast Athletic Conference sweep of Kenyon College at Art Murray Field.

Junior right-hander Michael Scarpelli (4-4) set down 17 straight Owls following a Fighting Scots error that enabled Kenyon to take a 2-0 lead in the first. The next batter to reach was Aaron Moss, who laced a one-out single to right field in the seventh. Scarpelli worked out of the jam, as an inning-ending grounder to first-year shortstop Noah Lindberg kept the bases loaded.

Scarpelli struck out four during his 17 straight retired. Sophomore second baseman David Guldin was a big key in Scarpelli's dominance, vacuuming up four grounders and tracking down a shallow fly ball off the bat of Ben Zimmerman in the fifth.

A rare defensive play occurred in the ninth. A throwing error enabled Parker Ellis to reach, but he had a hold on a shallow fly ball that got caught up in a blowing-in wind. First-year center fielder Matt Herlick was unable to make the play on the dead sprint, but because Ellis had to hold, Wooster was able to get the 8-1 forceout at second. Sophomore Alex Eusebio went on to strand bases full of Owls in the ninth.

Herlick's solo homer down the right field line tied Saturday's first game at two in the fifth inning. Wooster took the lead on first-year right fielder Owen Sherrill's two-run double to left that plated senior catcher Colin Leslie and Kramer later in the inning. Herlick's sacrifice fly brought in the game's final run in the sixth.

Kramer led off the seventh with a single to center for his 200th collegiate hit. He is the 16th in program history to hit the milestone and first since Garrett Crum graduated with exactly 200 in 2019.

Theo Canning took the game-one loss, falling to 1-3. He allowed four runs on five hits in 4 2/3 innings.

Wooster junior left fielder Koa Siu and Kenyon's Zimmerman had two hits each in game one.

Kramer cracked the program's top-10 list for RBI with his 175th in the fourth inning of the nightcap, as Lindberg scored on a sacrifice fly. Kramer added RBI 176 with a double to center field in the sixth that made it 8-1. A stiff blowing in wind was all that kept Kramer from also joining Wooster's top-five list for homers on Saturday.

Senior Jack Spring struck out a pair of Owls in the first to strand two on the bases and sophomore third baseman Maanav Bhatt made a fine play on a slowly hit Gio Giuliani grounder between third and short in the second to keep Kenyon off the board and strand three more Owls. Spring settled in from there, retiring the side in order in the third and fourth innings before a liner went right to Lindberg leaving the bases full of Owls again in the fifth.

Spring improved to 3-0 after allowing a run on four hits in five innings with five strikeouts. Sophomore James MacMillan tossed two shutout innings of relief. Jack Briscoe took his first loss after allowing three runs on four hits in three innings.

Leslie led the offense with two hits and two RBI, while Siu was a perfect 3-for-3 with a walk in the nightcap. Wooster stole five bases with two coming from Siu.

Spring and MacMillan combined on a five-hitter.

Wooster is now 23-12 with a 6-6 mark in NCAC play. Kenyon dropped to 14-20, 3-11 NCAC.

Next, Wooster is at Bethany College (23-14) for its final regular season non-conference game on Sunday, April 26. First pitch is at 1 p.m.