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11
Winner Otterbein OTTERBEI 7-6
4
Kenyon KENYON 7-10
Winner
Otterbein OTTERBEI
7-6
11
Final
4
Kenyon KENYON
7-10
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Otterbein OTTERBEI 5 0 4 0 2 0 0 11 9 1
Kenyon KENYON 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 4 10 4

W: Addison Yoder (2-3) L: Akin, Izzy (2-4)

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Otterbein OTTERBEI 7-7
6
Winner Kenyon KENYON 8-10
Otterbein OTTERBEI
7-7
5
Final
6
Kenyon KENYON
8-10
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Otterbein OTTERBEI 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 5 11 1
Kenyon KENYON 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 6 11 1

W: Hamm, Kylie (5-3) L: Kaycee Berentz (0-3)

Leah Kuban
Mikayla Rudolph

Game Recap: Softball |

Kuban’s clutch hit gives Owls split

GAMBIER, Ohio -- Solid pitching from Kylie Hamm and a walk-off single from Leah Kuban gave the Kenyon College softball team a 6-5 extra-inning win over the Otterbein University Cardinals during the Owls' home-opening games on Sunday. The win ended a five-game skid for the Kenyon team, who lost game one to Otterbein, 11-4.

Three of those previous five losses were by one run, so the Owls, now 8-10, were happy to be on the other end of a close contest.

Hamm cruised through the first three innings of game two, retiring nine of the ten batters she faced. She got two more outs in the fourth inning, but Otterbein put together back-to-back doubles and an RBI single to move ahead 2-0.

Kenyon fired back in the bottom of the inning with singles from Keala Montgomery and Leah Schlissberg. Maeve McLaughlin then stroked a two-run double to left center to tie the game. Two batters later, Peyton Green singled home McLaughlin to give Kenyon a 3-2 lead.

The back-and-forth continued through the fifth inning when Otterbein scored three times and Kenyon scored twice. For the Owls, Jillian Messinger singled and later came around to score on an error. After that, McLaughlin came up with another RBI hit to tie the game.

The teams went scoreless the rest of regulation. In the top of the eighth, with the international tie breaker in effect, Hamm made two big plays. She first fielded a ground ball, helping to pick off a potential scoring run between third base and home plate. One batter later, she dialed up a strikeout to get the Owls out of the inning.

In the bottom of the eighth, McLaughlin was put on second to start the inning. Kuban, in the batter's box, attempted to bunt, distracting the Otterbein catcher enough for a passed ball that allowed McLaughlin to scamper to third. Kuban then ran the count to 1-2 before ripping the game-winning single up the middle to score McLaughlin.

McLaughlin was 2-for-4 with two runs and three RBI. Montgomery and Kuban both had two hits, and Messinger, who ended game one with a hit, went 3-for-3 in game two.

Hamm pitched all eight innings of game two and got the win. She gave up five runs on 11 hits, walked one, and struck out two.

In game one, Otterbein took control right away, scoring five times in the first inning off Kenyon starter Izzy Akin. Four more runs in the third inning and two more in the top of the fifth gave Otterbein an 11-1 lead and put the Cardinals on the brink of ending the game early.

Kenyon came up with three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to avoid the run rule, but that put a cap on the Owls' scoring. 

McLaughlin had two hits in game-one, as well. Her four-hit day raised her batting average to .397. Green also had two hits in game one, upping her average to .422. Meanwhile, Montgomery's three hits on the day extended her hitting streak to eight games and moved her average to a team-best .460.

Next up for the Owls is a make-up doubleheader at Franklin College on Wednesday. 
 
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