MARIETTA, Ohio – The Kenyon College Ladies softball team breezed through a pair of run-rule wins Saturday and ran their program-best win streak to 13 games. The Ladies dominated all aspects of their doubleheader and checked out with a 10-2 game-one win and an 8-0 game-two win.

In the two games combined, Kenyon batters posted a .500 average. Junior Jane Ghublikian was a perfect 6-for-6 with a pair of home runs, four runs scored, and eight RBI. Senior Maddy Stark added a 5-for-7 performance with four runs scored and freshman Madi Maldonado was 5-for-8 with three doubles and five runs scored.

In game one, Stark got the start and ran her pitching record to 8-2 by whipping up five innings of six-hit softball. She walked two, gave up two earned runs, and registered ten strikeouts. In doing so, she improved her Kenyon career records to 42 wins and 390 strikeouts.

Stark got all the run support she needed in the first few innings. A double steal in the first inning accounted for Kenyon's first run and later an RBI single from Ghublikian made it 2-0. In the third inning, junior Molly O'Connor ripped a two-run double and doubled the Ladies' lead.

Stark, Ghublikian, and Liz Paterra all drove in runs in the fourth inning and then Ghublikian blasted a three-run homer in the fifth, putting Kenyon up by eight runs and invoking the mercy rule.

Things didn't change much in game two. After plating an unearned run in the first inning, the Ladies witnessed the second Ghublikian three-run dinger of the day. Her shot in the third inning gave Kenyon a 4-0 advantage.

In the bottom of the fifth inning the Ladies sent seven more batters to the plate and rang up four more runs on four hits, a walk, and a sacrifice fly. Lindsey Susolik started the inning with a double. Nicole Horita walked and Paterra later put up the sacrifice fly. Maldonado then laced a two-run double and Stark capped off the game with a single that scored Maldonado.

Game-two starter for Kenyon was sophomore Sylvie Thomas (9-1). She only needed four innings of work to pick up the win. In that time, she yielded just three hits and two walks. She struck out three batters before giving way to reliever Danielle Elizarraraz, who polished off the final inning of work for the Ladies.

Saturday's games, which were originally scheduled to be played as Kenyon home games, were moved to a neutral-site field at Marietta College because of persistent problems with the Ladies' home field. The Ladies will remain at Marietta tomorrow to take on the Pioneers in a non-conference doubleheader with a 1 p.m. start.