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WESTERVILLE, Ohio – The Otterbein University baseball team tallied a pair of doubleheader splits to end the week of competition, splitting at Wilmington College Thursday afternoon before doing the same with visiting Muskingum University Friday at Fishbaugh Field.

The Cardinals, now 18-12 on the season and 6-8 within the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC), will most likely need to win its four remaining league games and receive some help in order to make the four-team postseason tournament in early May.

Otterbein posted a 6-3 victory in game one at Wilmington, tying the game on a solo home run from Sean Kettering in the sixth inning before three runs in the seventh helped create some space.

Jake Simmerman later ripped a solo home run himself in the ninth inning to help sophomore Ben Hamilton improve to 5-0 on the mound. Hamilton allowed just the three runs and walked two batters over his complete-game effort.

Junior Billy Harkenrider hit a perfect 5 for 5 in the game while leadoff hitter Taylor Hutchison gave a 2 for 4 effort at the dish, walking once.

The Cardinals faced a 5-2 deficit entering their final at-bat in game two, but created some momentum behind a one-out, two-run shot over the left-field fence from sophomore Tyler Kent that brought the score to 5-4. Otterbein would unfortunately fall just short as the next two batters popped up to end the game.

Otterbein entered a back-and-forth matchup in game one with Muskingum on Friday, seizing a 7-5 advantage after Simmerman launched a grand slam to straightaway center field, marking his sixth long ball in just 19 games this spring.

The Muskies battled back, scoring one early run in the eighth inning before a two-out rally ultimately brought home five more runs.  Muskingum later scored four additional runs in the ninth inning to pull away with a 15-7 victory.

Otterbein got even in game two, erasing an initial 2-0 deficit with a six-run third inning that brought 10 Cardinals to bat. The team would settle in and cruise to a 10-2 victory behind the right arm of sophomore Jordon Mally, who allowed just one earned run en route to his second complete-game victory in as many starts.

Kettering went 3 for 4 with a pair of RBI in the contest while Mark Walton, Peyton Ross and David Lemley also drove in two runs each.