FORT PIERCE, Fla. – Up to this point in the season, it has been all about pitching and defense for the Kenyon College baseball team. Sunday, the bats joined the party as the Lords amassed 18 hits and rolled to a 14-3 victory over the Cairn University Highlanders.

The top of the Kenyon batting order accounted for most of the damage. Ryan Page, Matt Contreras and Alex Gow combined to go 8-for-15 with five runs scored and six RBI. Contreras, who was 3-for-4, doubled and scored in the first inning to get things going for the Lords. He is now batting .516 in 31 at-bats this season.

Three more Kenyon runs scored in the second inning. Two came home on a single to left field from Will Sturgeon and the other came home on a single up the middle from Page.

That 4-0 lead was all Kenyon starting pitcher Zach Elsawy needed. The freshman right-hander fired six innings of shutout baseball to record his first collegiate win. He allowed just four hits and a walk. He struck out four and lowered his individual ERA to 0.69 in 13 innings pitched.

Cairn starting pitcher Carson Conradt settled down in the middle innings and kept it a 4-0 ball game by retiring 12 of the 13 Kenyon batters he faced during a four-inning stretch.

Kenyon then erupted for four more runs in the seventh inning to blow the game open. The big hit in that inning was Gow's two-run single roped up the middle of the defense.

Cairn got a solo home run in the bottom of the seventh, but Kenyon tacked on two more in the eighth inning, including one run on Page's RBI triple to right field that gave Kenyon an 11-1 advantage. Hitting out of the leadoff spot, Page was 3-for-6 with a run scored and three RBI. He now has his batting average up to .444 in 18 at-bats this season.

Cairn (3-2) scored a couple more runs off Kenyon relievers, but the Lords offense finished things off with a three-run ninth inning. Jimmy Clark and Paul Siciliano led off the inning with back-to-back doubles. Both came around to score, as did Justus Brown, who got on base after he was hit by a pitch.

Every Kenyon starter had at least one hit. Sturgeon, batting in the No. 9 spot, was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBI. Siciliano also had two RBI and Eric DelRosso scored twice.

Kenyon (6-3) gets back to work Monday with a doubleheader against Immaculata University (2-1) starting at 10 a.m.