MEMPHIS, Tenn. – After dropping games to the same teams Saturday, the Kenyon College Ladies softball team returned to the diamond Sunday to earn a doubleheader split. Kenyon started the day with a 6-5 loss against Webster University, but bounced with a 12-8 win over host Rhodes College.

Throughout the four-game weekend, the Ladies swung the bats to the tune of a .384 batting average. They pounded out a total of 53 hits and averaged 8.5 runs per game. On the flip side, the team's pitching and defense clearly struggled. Three Ladies pitchers combined for a 6.51 earned run average, while the defense behind them committed a total of 16 errors.

The Ladies (1-3) finished the trip on a positive note, scoring three runs in the top of the seventh inning of game two to hold off a charging Rhodes squad. With a 9-2 advantage after four innings, the Ladies gave up consecutive three-run innings to the Lynx, who headed into the final frame trailing by just one run.

Sensing urgency, Kenyon rattled off five straight hits to start the top of the seventh. Amanda Ogata led off with a double. Britny Patterson singled and Lauren Graf followed with another single to score Ogata. Allison Stratman singled home Patterson and then Grace Pilz ripped a double to right centerfield to plate Graf and give Kenyon a four-run cushion.

Earlier in the game, Kenyon established its big lead by ringing up eight runs in the fourth inning. The Kenyon women used six hits, two walks and one Rhodes error to ignite that offensive explosion. Five of the six hits were singles. The other was an RBI triple from Patterson. Madi Maldonado's single scored two runs, while Keely Sweet and Nicole Horita both had RBI hits in the inning.

Overall, Kenyon had 13 hits against the Lynx. Maldonado, Patterson, Graf, Stratman and Horita each had two. Maldonado totaled a team-best three RBI, while Ogata, Patterson, Graf and Horita each scored a pair of runs.

Sweet went all seven innings in the pitchers' circle for the Ladies and claimed the win after giving up seven hits and three earned runs. She walked six and struck out three.

The Ladies didn't have the luxury of building a big lead in game one against Webster. They did jump out front, 1-0, with an RBI single from Horita in the second inning, but Webster capitalized on a Kenyon error in the top of the fourth inning and went on to score four times. Another Kenyon error in the top of the fifth resulted in another run and a 5-2 Webster lead.

In the bottom of the fifth, Kenyon put together another three-run inning. Graf and Stratman led things off with back-to-back doubles. A Webster error then kept the inning alive for Amanda Coyle, who drilled a two-run triple that knotted the game at 5-5. The outburst was one of six, three-run innings the Ladies' offense manufactured throughout the weekend.

Neither team scored in the sixth or the seventh, but when they went to an extra inning, Webster got the game-winner on a sacrifice bunt followed by a wild pitch with a runner on third.

Making her pitching debut for the Ladies, Coyle suffered the loss. She took over in relief and worked five innings. She struck out one, walked one, gave up three hits and didn't allow an earned run.

At the plate, Maldonado, Graf, Stratman and Horita each came away with two hits for Kenyon. Stratman and Horita also scored twice and Coyle chipped in with two RBI.