VERO BEACH, Fla. – Strong pitching continued to produce for the Kenyon College Lords baseball team as it ended its two-week spring break schedule Friday with a doubleheader sweep of the Norwich University Cadets. The two games, played at Dodgertown, were won by scores of 3-2 and 5-1.

Kenyon senior Paul Henshaw picked up his first win of the season by throwing all seven innings of the opener. He struck out nine and gave up two earned runs on just six hits and a walk. In the second game, fellow senior Sam Gillespie continued his hot streak on the mound and ran his record to 4-0 with a seven-inning showing that included another nine strikeouts. He gave up just one earned run on two hits and one walk.

Kenyon (10-5) returns home after winning four straight and six of its last seven contests. Throughout the 15 spring break games, the Lords' pitching staff compiled a 3.21 earned run average with 129 strikeouts in 120 2/3 innings pitched. Opposing batters were held to a combined .233 average.

At the plate, Kenyon got things started against Norwich with a John Nahra leadoff triple in the second inning of game one. Two batters later, a Max Warren single up the middle scored Nahra.

In the fourth inning, Tyler Roldan drew a walk and Mike Wakin was hit by a pitch. Warren sacrificed both runners over and Ross Scheinberg smacked a sacrifice fly to right field to score Roldan. Jason Clebowicz then ripped a single to right to score Wakin.

In the bottom of the sixth, Norwich put together a pair of singles and a double to score its two runs of Henshaw, but the Kenyon hurler settled down and finished off the game with two strikeouts and a fly out in the bottom of the seventh.

In game two, the Lords posted single runs in the second and third innings. Nahra got things going with another triple and came around to score the team's first run on a Norwich error. In the next inning, Matt von Roemer tripled and scored on a sacrifice fly from Alec Manning.

The Lords then gave Gillespie all the room he needed by tacking on three more runs in the fourth inning. Singles from Roldan, Clebowicz, von Roemer and Manning were the catalyst for the Kenyon outburst.

For the two games combined, von Roemer was 6-for-7 at the plate with three extra-base hits, a run scored and two RBI. Clebowicz was 3-for-6 with a run and an RBI, while both Roldan and Nahra had two hits and scored two runs.

The Lords will next be in action Thursday when they travel to Springfield, Ohio for a non-conference contest with the Wittenberg University Tigers.