Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 OBERLIN, Ohio – The Kenyon College softball team cranked out 30 hits and scored 23 runs in Saturday's doubleheader sweep of host Oberlin College. The Ladies opened the day with a dozen hits during an 8-3 win and then closed the day with 18 hits in a 15-6 shellacking.

The pair of wins gives Kenyon an overall record of 14-5. That win total already passes last season's final output of 13. Additionally, Saturday's games were the conference-opening contests for the Ladies, who are now 2-0 in NCAC play. On the flip side, Oberlin fell to 2-10 overall and 0-2 in conference action.

As expected, the bulk of the Ladies' hit count came from the middle of the order. Senior Emily Prehoda, hitting fifth, went a combined 6-for-9 (.667) with three runs scored and four RBI. Her hit list included a double and a solo home run. She finished the day with ten total bases and an outlandish 1.111 slugging mark.

Fellow senior Jamie Samuel, who hits in the three hole, was a combined 5-for-8 (.625) at the plate. She scored four times and also had four RBI. In between Prehoda and Samuel, sophomore Chelsea Delaney had four hits, including a two-run homer in the Ladies' last at-bat of the day.

In game one, the Ladies and Yeowomen traded a couple of two-run innings, but in the top of the fifth, the Kenyon women broke things open. With the bases juiced, Prehoda laced a two-run single and Lindsey Susolik followed with another run-scoring hit to give Kenyon a 5-2 lead. In the very next inning, the Ladies took advantage of an Oberlin error to put three more runs on the board. Samuel and Prehoda had the RBI hits in that inning.

In game two, Kenyon went right for the jugular. The Ladies sent 11 batters to the plate and put together a nine-run second inning. Samuel, Prehoda, and Toni Miller all doubled in the frame. Prehoda also tacked on her home run, while Maddy Stark and Liz Paterra chipped in with singles.

The Yeowomen got one run back in the bottom of the third inning and then avoided a possible run-rule scenario by scoring five times in the bottom of the fourth. That would be all Oberlin would produce. Kenyon, meanwhile, put two more runs on the board in the fifth inning and then closed things out with a four-run seventh inning that witnessed a two-run single from Samuel and a two-run homer from Delaney.

Stark, who had four hits and four runs scored, took on all pitching duties for Kenyon. In game one she allowed three earned runs on nine hits and two walks. In game two, she gave up five earned runs on 13 hits and three walks. She also struck out a combined 17 batters throughout the doubleheader. Stark now owns a 10-0 pitching record with a 1.64 earned run average this season.