Senior shortstop John McLain makes a defensive play during Sunday's opening game. He wound up as the offensive hero in the nightcap, homering with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.

WOOSTER, Ohio – John McLain hit a two-out, two-run, walk-off homer to lift The College of Wooster to its second comeback victory of "Senior Day" and a 7-4, 7-6 sweep over Oberlin College during a back-and-forth North Coast Athletic Conference East Division doubleheader Sunday afternoon at sunny Art Murray Field.

Wooster's (30-5, 14-2 NCAC East) opening win may have been overshadowed by McLain's heroics, but it clinched a third consecutive divisional title for the Fighting Scots, and they will host the fourth-place team from the NCAC West in the NCAC Cross-Over Series on May 2-3.

With Oberlin (13-24, 4-12 NCAC East) having gone ahead 6-5, courtesy of single tallies in the eighth and ninth innings of the nightcap, Wooster caught a break to begin its comeback. After Nicholas Morgan got the first batter of the bottom of the ninth out, Frank Vance skied a pop-up that the Yeomen fielders lost in the sun as it landed safely between the left fielder, centerfielder, and shortstop for a single.

An out later, McLain took advantage, hammering a 2-1 offering to left field that was hooking near the foul pole. The home plate umpire followed the flight of the ball down the line and ruled that it stayed fair, which gave the Scots the thrilling win, their 30th of the campaign. The memorable home run was McLain's fifth this year and the 14th of his career.

Earlier in the game, Wooster overcame an early 3-0 deficit for the second time of the afternoon, scoring once in the second, twice in the third, and twice more in the fourth. Highlighting that stretch, Vance stroked a two-run homer to right-center – his sixth of the season – and Tyler Schuch gave the Scots a 5-3 lead when he came through with a two-out single up the middle.

Oberlin got one back during the sixth inning and evened the score on Benjamin Whitner's two-out base knock in the eighth. At that point, Wooster went to closer Michael Whitaker, who quickly induced a weak grounder to end the inning.

Whitaker, despite giving up back-to-back doubles to start the ninth, wound up collecting the victory to improve to 4-2.

In the first game, the Scots fell behind 3-0 through one inning, then gained the lead with an unearned tally during the second and a three-run third, featuring a Jamie Lackner triple that plated two.

The Yeomen tied it at four in the top of the fourth, only to see Wooster match them with a single tally the home half of the frame, followed by insurance runs in the fifth and sixth innings. Jake Fling, Jacob Solomon, and Schuch provided those key RBI.

Starter Danny Reese earned the win (5-1), going 4.2 innings of the seven-inning game and yielding just two earned runs on six hits. Whitaker notched the save in that one with 2.1 scoreless innings, in which he allowed a single hit.

At the plate, Vance and Oberlin's Jeff Schweighoffer led all players with five-hit days, each going 5-for-9.

The Scots return to action on Tuesday with a trip to Ohio Northern University (28-8).