GREENCASTLE, Ind. – The Kenyon Ladies softball team saw its season come to end on Friday as the team lost to DePauw University and The College of Wooster in the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament. Kenyon ended the year with a 22-20 record.
GAME ONE
The top-seeded Tigers gave up just three hits to the Ladies and won by a 6-0 count.
DePauw pitcher Riley Magoon (7-0) was virtually untouchable as she tossed five innings, allowed just one hit, struck out four and induced nine groundouts.
After DePauw was retired in order by Kenyon standout pitcher
Emily Pater in the first, the Tigers came back in the second to get all the run support needed.
Meghan Gonzalez led off the inning with a single and a few sequences later, was driven in by Becca St. Germain. Then with one out, Sidney Holler brought home St. Germain on an RBI groundout to short.
Following those two runs, Kenyon was able to attain just two hits from
Sara Campagna and Pater. For DePauw, it marked the tenth time this year it shut out an opponent.
GAME TWO
Wooster broke a 3-3 tie in the fourth and later prevailed 8-3 to stave off elimination.
Both teams scored twice to start the game. In the top of the first, the Fighting Scots scored two unearned runs after a Ladies throwing error. Kenyon came right back to knot things up.
In the home half of the frame,
Grace Pilz and Campagna each tallied run-scoring doubles. For Campagna, it was her 19th of the season, which pulled the standout first-year to within two of the single-season record.
With the tally now at 2-2, Wooster went ahead again in the second. Emmalee Cooke drove a two-bagger to right field and pushed Rachel Ginsburg across home. Once more, the Ladies responded.
In the bottom of the third,
Grace Finn doubled and two batters later,
Britny Patterson drove in her teammate with an infield groundout.
Unfortunately, for the Ladies, they would not score again. In the top of the fourth, Torrey Totman singled and another error by Kenyon allowed the go-ahead run to score.
Over the final four frames, the Ladies never got anything going. Wooster pitchers Marissa Norgrove and Olivia Johnson combined to toss the seven frames, struck out three, gave up six hits and induced a combined 17 fly-outs and groundouts.
Finn led the Ladies by going 2-for-3 with two runs scored.
It was the final games for Patterson, Pilz and
Austen Whibley, Kenyon's three seniors. For Pilz, her single-season slugging mark of .738 is a new program record besting Jamie Samuel's .727 mark set in 2013.
