Box Score CAPE CORAL, Fla. – The Kenyon College softball team got one game in before thunderstorms covered the area and put an end to Thursday's competition at the Gene Cusic Classic. In the game that was played, the Ladies racked up a 7-5 win over the Alverno College Inferno and ran their season-opening win streak to a program-best seven games.

Kenyon was also scheduled to play Edgewood College in the afternoon, but that game was washed out.  A win against Edgewood would have set the program's all-time best win streak at eight. Twice before (2009, 2008) the Ladies had win streaks of seven games.

Against Alverno, every Kenyon batter had at least one hit. Lindsey Susolik, Toni Miller, and Jane Ghublikian led the way in an attack that featured 13 hits. Miller began the parade with a two-run single in the first inning. With Ghublikian and Chelsea Delaney on base, she punched a shot through the right side to give the Ladies a 2-0 lead.

In the bottom of the first, Alverno did what no other team has been able to do this season—score an earned run off Kenyon starting pitching Maddy Stark. The Inferno accomplished the feat when catcher Emily Ortner blasted a solo home run to left field. The damage was minimal for the Ladies and Stark got the run back on her own when she hit a sacrifice fly that scored Susolik in the very next inning.

Stark again helped her own cause on the mound by leading off the fifth inning with a single. Later, with two outs, Ghublikian doubled to plate Stark. Alverno answered with two more runs in the bottom of the inning, but Susolik's double in the sixth led to another Kenyon run. Ghublikian then added a two-run homer to center field in what turned out to be the game-winning runs.

Ghublikian ended up 2-for-4 with two runs scored and three RBI. She now leads the team with a .455 average through 22 at-bats.  Susolik and Delaney were also 2-for-4 with a run scored and Molly O'Connor added a 2-for-3 performance.

Back in the center of the diamond, Stark had to work out of a jam in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Inferno managed four singles in the frame and scored two more runs before Ortner flied out to center field with the tying runs on base. The win improved Stark's season record to 4-0. She tossed all seven innings against Alverno and gave up four earned runs on eight hits. She struck out six and she's yet to walk a batter in 28 innings this season.

The Ladies have a day off Friday and will try for that record-breaking eighth straight win Saturday morning against Bridgewater State University at 9 a.m.