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Kenyon KENYON 8-11
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Winner Franklin FRANKLIN 9-2
Kenyon KENYON
8-11
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Final
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Franklin FRANKLIN
9-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Kenyon KENYON 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 12 0
Franklin FRANKLIN 1 0 0 5 0 2 X 8 13 2

W: Rylan Young (3-0) L: Messinger, Jillian (1-1)

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Winner Kenyon KENYON 9-11
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Franklin FRANKLIN 9-3
Winner
Kenyon KENYON
9-11
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Final
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Franklin FRANKLIN
9-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Kenyon KENYON 0 1 2 0 2 1 0 6 10 2
Franklin FRANKLIN 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 8 2

W: Boue, Becca (1-0) L: Zoey Kugelman (2-2)

Becca Boue
Mikayla Rudolph

Game Recap: Softball |

McLaughlin, Boue take charge against Franklin

RICHMOND, Ind. -- Veteran Maeve McLaughlin continued to swing a hot bat Wednesday and first-year Becca Boue emerged as a promising new arm for the Kenyon College softball team, which earned a doubleheader split playing against the Franklin College Grizzlies on a neutral-site field at Earlham College.

Kenyon jumped out to a 5-0 lead in game one, but wound up losing, 8-6. In game two, the Owls led wire-to-wire, evening out the two-game set with a 6-1 win.

McLaughlin, Kenyon's senior left fielder, had three hits in each game. Batting out of the three-hole in the lineup, she was a combined 6-for-8 (.750) with one run scored and two RBI. Over her last four games, she's gone 10-for-16 (.635) with three runs and seven RBI. After Wednesday's game, McLaughlin now leads the team with 25 RBI and ranks second on the team with a .437 batting average.

In game two, Boue stepped up her game for the ailing Owls pitching staff. She threw all seven innings and picked up her first collegiate win. The one run she allowed was unearned. She gave up eight hits, walked one, and struck out one. Of the 21 outs she recorded 16 were by groundout, as she lowered her season ERA from 8.75 to 4.67.

Kenyon bats jumped on Franklin pitching for five runs in the first inning of game one. Two Grizzly errors helped the Owls, but Peyton Green's one-run single and Kinsey White's two-run single helped even more.

Green, who had three hits in game one, was 5-for-8 (.625) on the day and now tops the Kenyon batting chart with a .453 average on the season. She also extended her hit streak to seven games.

Franklin scored one run in the bottom of the first inning off Kenyon starter Jillian Messinger, but the Owls got the run back in the top of the second after Keala Montgomery singled, stole second, and later scored on an RBI single from McLaughlin.

The score remained 6-1 in favor of Kenyon until the Grizzlies tied things up with a five-run inning in the bottom of the fourth. Two more runs in the bottom of the sixth led to a Franklin win and a loss for Messinger and the Owls.

In game two, Kenyon got a Leah Kuban home run in the second inning. The solo shot was her team-leading fourth of the season. One inning later, Montgomery ripped a two-run triple to give the Owls a 3-0-lead. The triple was Montgomery's fifth of the season and upped her Kenyon career record to 15 triples over the last four seasons.

An error and another RBI single from McLaughlin moved Kenyon's lead to 5-1 in the fifth inning. Then, one inning later, Brooke Avila singled home Green for the final run of the day.

The Owls moved to 9-11 with the split and will start North Coast Athletic Conference play on Saturday at home against John Carroll University.

For Franklin, the split stopped a win streak at four and moved the Grizzlies to 9-3 overall. 
 
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