GAMBIER, Ohio – Allegheny College (2-12, 2-8 NCAC) had great pitching in game one before winning an offensive shootout in the second contest on Friday as it swept Kenyon College (0-12, 0-10 NCAC) in North Coast Athletic Conference play.
 
GAME ONE
 
Tori Vradenburg struck out a season-high 11 batters as the Gators won the opener, 2-1.
 
It was not until the seventh inning that Kenyon got on the scoreboard. In that time, Vradenburg allowed just three Ladies to reach scoring base while allowing her defense to snag eight fly-ball outs.
 
Kenyon had solid defense as well with Emily Pater in the circle. She did not allow a run until the sixth and ended up inducing 15 flyouts and groundouts while striking out five, a season-high.
 
With the scoreboard reading zero, the visitors broke the scoreless tie in the sixth. With two out, centerfielder Paige Ziggas found the soft spot between the Ladies second baseman and right fielder and pushed Hayley Behr across home.
 
A frame later, the Gators doubled their lead as Joplin Osgood reached by error with two out scoring Kelly Lafferty.
 
The Ladies were close to tying the game in the seventh. However, after a two-out RBI double from Clare McMahon, which scored Tori Rogers, Vradenburg got a fly out to end the game.
 
GAME TWO
 
The second contest was nowhere near like the first. There were 34 combined runs and 40 hits between the teams as the Gators won 18-16.
 
Kenyon got off on the right foot with a three-run first inning. Pater and Kassie Rimel each had RBI doubles while Olivia Hurley added a run-scoring single.
 
Allegheny, though, came right back to tie things up at 3-3 in the second. Highlighting the inning was a two-run homer by Kyleigh Cason.
 
Pater and Hurley then regained the lead for Kenyon. In the fourth-bat, Pater smoked a two-run double and that was followed by Hurley who drove in Bella Albrecht. At that point, heading to the third, the Ladies led 6-3.
 
Despite trailing again, the Gators fought back. And in the top fourth, they did so in a big way.
 
Fourteen batters made their way into the box and Allegheny put a whopping 10 runs on the board.
 
Kaylin Tang tied the game at six before the Gators took the lead for good with a Behr RBI single in the next at-bat. Later in the frame, Isabelle Wakefield connected with a two-run double to left field while Ziggas and Lafferty each produced run-scoring hits. Allegheny's efforts were rounded out by Osgood whose two-run single up the middle made the score 14-8.
 
Over the next few innings, the Ladies would chip away at the deficit, scoring three runs in the fifth and in the sixth on a bases-clearing triple from McMahon.
 
Then in the bottom of the seventh, training 18-12, Kenyon really made things interesting. After Madde Hyland was hit-by-pitch, Kathryn Riggs came to the plate. The senior took a 2-2 pitch to left field and watched as the ball hit the top of the fence and cleared for a grand slam. It was her first home run of the season.
 
Kenyon's Paige Milhon then doubled to bring the tying run to the plate. However, Vradenburg got a strikeout to end the two-hour, 44-minute game.
 
Tomorrow, the same two teams will meet at Allegheny for a 1 p.m. NCAC twin bill.