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Winner Kenyon KENYON 5-4
5
Minn.-Morris MINN.-MO 1-4
Winner
Kenyon KENYON
5-4
8
Final
5
Minn.-Morris MINN.-MO
1-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Kenyon KENYON 2 0 1 0 3 2 0 8 10 2
Minn.-Morris MINN.-MO 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 5 7 4

W: Hamm, Kylie () L: A. Thornton () S: McCutchen, Allison ()

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Winner Occidental OCCIDENT 2-10
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Kenyon KENYON 5-5
Winner
Occidental OCCIDENT
2-10
13
Final
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Kenyon KENYON
5-5
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Occidental OCCIDENT 0 0 1 2 0 5 0 5 13 14 1
Kenyon KENYON 0 0 0 0 1 7 0 0 8 10 4

W: Courtney Miles () L: McCutchen, Allison ()

Maeve McLaughlin
Marty Fuller

Game Recap: Softball |

Owls win one, lose one in extra innings

HONOLULU, Hawaii – Day two of the Ulili Softball Invitational saw the Kenyon College Owls nearly pull off a sweep. In game one, the Owls held on for an 8-5 win over the University of Minnesota Morris Cougars. In game two, the Kenyon team charged back from an 8-1 deficit, only to fall, 13-8, to the Occidental College Tigers in an extra-inning affair.

The top of the batting order in game one made all the difference for Kenyon. Keala Montgomery, Leah Schlissberg, and Maeve McLaughlin combined to go 5-for-9 with seven runs scored, and three RBI. Montgomery and McLaughlin both logged their 100th career hits. Schlissberg scored four times. McLaughlin plated three runs and Montgomery smacked a triple, upping her Kenyon career record to 13.

Montgomery led off the game with a ground-rule double and, two batters later, McLaughlin knocked her home. Leah Kuban added a sacrifice fly in the inning, giving the Owls an early 2-0 edge. Kenyon later scored a third run after Schlissberg was hit by a pitch, stole second, moved to third on a fielder's choice, and then scored on a Minnesota Morris error.

Kylie Hamm, Kenyon's starting pitcher, held the Cougars scoreless through three. In the fourth inning, however, Minnesota Morris scored twice to pull within one run at 3-2.       

Kenyon then broke the game open with three runs in the top of the fifth and two more in the top of sixth. Big hits came from Brooke Avila, who had an RBI single in the fifth inning, and Lily Colvin who followed Avila at the plate, smacking a two-run single. In the sixth, it was McLaughlin and Peyton Green with RBI hits.

Hamm earned the win, going one out short of the distance. She gave up eight hits, walked two, and struck out two. Allison McCutchen came on in relief to get the final out and earn the save.

Game two belonged to the pitchers, at least for the first five innings. Occidental moved ahead 1-0 after three innings and 3-0 after four. Kenyon picked up its first run of the game in the bottom of the fifth inning when Schlissberg tripled and a McLaughlin double brought her home.

Things took a wild turn in the sixth inning. In the top of the frame, Occidental put up five runs on four hits. The Kenyon defense helped out the Tigers' cause by committing three errors, making only two of those five runs earned.

Kenyon, now trailing 8-1, fired back with a huge inning at the plate. The Owls sent up 11 batters in the bottom of the sixth and they came through with seven runs to knot the game at 8-8. Madison Buckwalter and Montgomery drew back-to-back bases loaded walks for two Kenyon runs. Following that, Schlissberg, McLaughlin, and Leah Kuban each rattled off RBI hits. Then, with two outs and a 2-2 count, Avila laced a single to center field, scoring two runs and tying the game.

Neither team scored in the seventh and when the contest went to an extra inning, the Occidental attack did not let up, scoring five times in the top of the eight. Kenyon, on the other end, went down one-two-three in the bottom of the eighth. 

On the day, Schlissberg, hitting out of the two-hole, was a combined 4-for-5 with six runs scored and one RBI. Right behind her in the batting order, McLaughlin was a combined 5-for-9 with three runs scored and five RBI.

Kenyon, now with a 5-5 record, has another game against Occidental lined up for tomorrow. That contest will be followed by one against Dickinson College. 
 
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