FORT MYERS, Fla. – A brief three-game losing streak was forgotten Sunday after the Kenyon College softball team rattled off a pair of wins against SUNY Canton and Wilmington College. An 8-0 throttling of Canton and a 5-1 triumph over Wilmington improved the Ladies' season record to 10-4.

In game one against Canton, Kenyon senior pitched Amanda Coyle gave up just one hit in the five-inning contest. She struck out five and walked one, while watching her earned run average sink to 1.31 through six appearances this season.

While Coyle silenced the Canton bats, Kenyon hitters belted a total of 11 hits, including three doubles and a triple that invoked the eight-run mercy rule. The Ladies top two hitters in the lineup, senior Madi Maldonado and freshman Grace Finn, did most of the damage. Maldonado went 3-for-4 with a run scored and two RBI, while Finn was a perfect 3-for-3 with a walk, a run scored and three RBI. Among Finn's three hits were a single, a double and a triple.

It took Kenyon hitters a couple of innings to figure out Canton starting pitcher Nicole Woodward, but in the bottom of the third Kenyon got on the board with two runs off Finn's triple.

One inning later, Maldonado doubled to plate two more Kenyon runs. Then, in the bottom of the fifth, the Ladies put the game away with four runs on RBI hits from Nicole Horita, Juliana Delsante and Finn.

Sunday's second game, against Wilmington, proved to be a little more dramatic, as the two teams played the first six innings to a 1-1 tie.

In the top of the seventh, the Ladies used three hits and a Wilmington error to break things open. With two outs, Grace Pilz was on second base and Coyle was on first. Maldonado doubled, bringing Pilz home. Finn followed up with another double, plating both Coyle and Maldonado. Britny Patterson then got aboard via a Wilmington error that made way for Finn to score the final run of the game.

Finn and Maldonado each had two more hits and two more RBI in game two. The pair posted a combined stat line that included a 10-for-15 showing at the plate with four runs scored and nine RBI. Coyle, batting ninth, tacked on two hits and two runs against Wilmington.

In the circle, the Ladies continued to get excellent pitching. Freshman Jace Juliano went all seven inning against Wilmington and allowed just one run on eight hits and two walks. She struck out three and worked out of a couple jams, stranding nine Wilmington runners on base. The performance knocked Juliano's earned run average down to 3.10 and lowered the Ladies' mark, as a staff, down to 2.17.

Kenyon has two more spring-break games to play Monday, before returning to campus. The Ladies will take on Swarthmore College at 9 a.m. and then The College at Brockport at 11 a.m.