MARIETTA, Ohio – Entering Saturday's softball doubleheader against the Marietta College Pioneers, the Kenyon College Ladies sported a .348 team batting average. Pioneer pitchers, however, were not rattled by that fact and they ended up shutting down the Kenyon offense to claim wins of 6-0 and 5-2 in the non-conference tilt.

Marietta starters Alison Kach and Jocelyn White yielded to the Ladies just two earned runs on nine hits and four walks throughout the doubleheader. The duo struck out four and left the Ladies with a .176 batting average for the day, while dropping their overall season average to .334.

In game one, Kach went the distance. She gave up four hits, walked three and recorded four strikeouts. The Ladies loaded the bases against Kach in both the first and fifth innings, but a groundout ended the threat in the first and two straight pop outs ended things in the fifth.

All four of Kenyon's hits in game one were singles and they came off the bats of Amanda Ogata, Keely Sweet, Nicole Horita and Amanda Coyle.

On the other side of things, Marietta got to Kenyon starting pitcher Austen Whibley for a run in the first inning and two more in the fifth. Two doubles, two singles and a Kenyon error then led to a three-run sixth inning for the Pioneers.

Whibley tossed all six innings of game one. Four of the six runs she gave up were earned. She struck out one, didn't walk a batter and gave up 11 hits.

In game two, Kenyon's offense amounted to a pair of one-run innings. In the top of the third, Coyle singled to center and later came around to score on another single from Ogata. Then, in the top of the fifth inning, the Ladies tied the score at 2-2 after Coyle reached on a Marietta error and Madi Maldonado doubled her home.

The Pioneers answered in the bottom of the fifth, scoring a run and taking the lead for good on a two-out Kenyon error. In the next inning, Marietta used a walk, a double and a single to score twice more and put things out of reach for Kenyon.

White earned the pitching win after giving up the runs on five hits and a walk. For Kenyon, Whibley again went the distance. Marietta got to her for ten hits and two walks.

The losses dropped the Ladies' overall record to 8-14, while the wins improved Marietta's season mark to 8-12. Kenyon will now look to end its current seven-game slide in Thursday's non-conference doubleheader at Capital University.