GREENCASTLE, Ind. – Kenyon College gave North Coast Athletic Conference regular-season champion DePauw University all it could handle on Tuesday in a league doubleheader. The Ladies dropped a close one by a 1-0 count in the opener before winning game two on a pair of homers late in the game. The two-game split ended Kenyon's season with a 17-22-1 record.
 
GAME ONE
 
The Tigers scored just one run due to an infield error as freshman pitcher Austen Whibley turned in another solid performance in the circle.
 
Whibley tossed a complete game, scattered six hits, didn't issue a single walk and fanned three batters. She allowed her defense to work as well inducing a combined 15 groundouts and flyouts.
 
Offensively, Kenyon wasn't able to back up its pitcher though as they found just one hit against Tigers pitcher Brooke Bandy. The Ladies' lone hit came to senior Danielle Elizarraraz in the sixth frame. Bandy struck out seven batters, allowed just one walk and retired the side in four separate innings.
 
DePauw's lone run of the game came in the sixth.
 
After a Linsey Button double, Andi Sarkisian entered as a pinch runner. In the following at-bat, Lauren Godden grounded out and a throw to third base trying to secure a double-play was not fielded cleanly and allowed Sarkisian to score.  
 
In the seventh, the Ladies got just one base runner on as Emma Baldwin earned her fourth save of the year.
 
GAME TWO
 
Down by two, a pair of two-run home runs from Jane Ghublikian and Grace Pilz in the fifth inning helped the Ladies earn their first win over the Tigers in three years.
 
DePauw got out to a 1-0 lead in the second as Godden homered to center field. An inning later, Button reached on an error which allowed Liz Getz to score.
 
After that though, Whibley and company allowed just one Tiger to reach the base paths.
 
Whibley tossed 5.2 innings and struck out a trio of batters as she earned her 13th win of the season. Her win total for her freshman campaign was tied for the third-most in single-season history.
 
During the fifth frame, the Ladies rallied back. Amanda Coyle got things going with an infield single and in the next plate appearance, Ghublikian smacked a two-run bomb to right center tying the game. Madi Maldonado followed with a double before Pilz came up with the go-ahead hit. On a 1-1 count, the freshman from Fox River Grove, Illinois hit her second homer of the season pushing the Ladies ahead 4-2.
 
That score remained the same over the last couple innings as DePauw was retired in order by Whibley.
 
Over the course of two games, Whibley posted an earned-run average of 0.60, limited DePauw to a .163 batting average and struck out a half dozen batters.
 
Seven different Ladies got hits in game two.
 
It was the final game for fourth-year players Molly O'Connor, Lindsey Susolik, Elizabeth Ovieda, Elizarraraz and Ghublikian.