UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, OH - The Wilmington College baseball team dropped a pair of Ohio Athletic Conference games Sunday to John Carroll. Wilmington fell to JCU, 7-5, in the first game, and lost in the nightcap, 9-2.

Wilmington (3-15 overall, 0-4) travels to Capital 1 p.m. Friday in an Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader.

GAME ONE: JOHN CARROLL 7, WILMINGTON 5

A two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the eighth inning provided the margin of victory as Wilmington's comeback fell short in the 7-5 loss.

Trailing 5-0, the Fightin' Quakers began their trek back with three runs in the seventh inning.

Freshman Daniel Hayes (Beavercreek, OH/Beavercreek) and junior Max Ramsey (Waynesville, OH/Waynesville) hit back-to-back one-out singles, and both scored on a Mike Orahood (South Vienna, OH/Northeastern) double. A fielder's choice erased Orahood, but an RBI double by Jake Robinson (Westerville, OH/Central) scored freshman Keith Hayes (Beavercreek, OH/Beavercreek).

Wilmington pulled a run closer in the eighth inning as junior Clay Cleaver (Pleasant Plain, OH/Little Miami) scored on a wild pitch. Junior Tyler Schrock (Waynesville, OH/Waynesville) scored the tying run on a ground out by Ramsey.

Orahood was the lone player with multiple hits, going 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI.

Sophomore Samuel Cranor (Cincinnati, OH/LaSalle) took the loss in relief (1-3), allowing two earned runs in 1 2/3 innings. Junior Corey Walker (Hillsboro, OH/Hillboro) earned the no-decision, going 6 1/3 innings – allowing five runs (three earned) on nine hits.

GAME TWO: JOHN CARROLL 9, WILMINGTON 2

Senior Roenick Whitney (Goshen, OH/Goshen) had one of Wilmington's two hits and both WC RBI in the 9-2 loss. Whitney doubled home a run in the fourth, and brought home a run with a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning.

Ramsey had Wilmington's only other hit, a single in the seventh inning.

John Carroll scored three runs in the third, five in the fifth and one in the sixth for the win.

Junior Derek Peters (Fayetteville, OH/Fayetteville) was saddled with the loss (0-3), allowing four earned runs on five hits in four innings of work. Freshman Tyler McDaniel (Edgewood, OH/Trenton) surrendered four earned runs on two hits in one inning of work, and junior Billy Foster (Xenia, OH/Xenia) allowed just one run on three hits in three innings of action.