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4
Bethany (W.V.) BETHANY 17-5
11
Winner Kenyon KENYON 13-14
Bethany (W.V.) BETHANY
17-5
4
Final
11
Kenyon KENYON
13-14
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Bethany (W.V.) BETHANY 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 8 2
Kenyon KENYON 6 0 0 1 4 0 X 11 14 1

W: Hamm, Kylie (8-3) L: Trinity Edge (8-2)

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Bethany (W.V.) BETHANY 17-6
10
Winner Kenyon KENYON 14-14
Bethany (W.V.) BETHANY
17-6
2
Final
10
Kenyon KENYON
14-14
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Bethany (W.V.) BETHANY 0 0 0 2 0 2 6 2
Kenyon KENYON 0 4 3 2 1 10 8 1

W: Messinger, Jillian (2-1) L: Madisyn Zigarovich (1-2)

Maeve McLaughlin
David Carley

Game Recap: Softball |

Kenyon bats bring Owls back to .500

GAMBIER, Ohio -- The Kenyon College softball team scored a combined 21 runs on 22 hits Tuesday while sweeping a pair of games from the Bethany College Bison. The two wins brought Kenyon's overall record back to the .500 mark, at 14-14.

Bethany, a club that was averaging nearly eight runs a game, lost game one 11-4 and then got run-ruled, 10-2, in a game-two contest that went just five innings. The two losses dropped the Bisons' overall record to 17-6.

Leading the hit parade for Kenyon was senior Maeve McLaughlin, who went 3-for-4 in game one and then 2-for-4 in game two. She scored one run and tallied three RBI. She now has a 12-game hit streak and has boosted her batting average to a team best .446 for the season.

Junior Brooke Avila and sophomore Kinsey White also had big days at the plate. Avila was a combined 3-for-5 with two walks, for runs scored, and four RBI. One of her hits was a two-run homer in game two. White added another 3-for-5 showing for the Owls and tacked on three runs and a couple more RBI.

The Kenyon bats started raking from the word go. In the bottom of the first inning of game one, the Owls knocked around Bethany starting pitcher Trinity Edge, who possessed an 8-1 record coming into the game. In that opening frame, Kenyon scored six times on seven hits. The Owls rattled off six straight hits with doubles coming off the bats of Leah Schlissberg, Peyton Green, and Avila. 

Kenyon's seventh run was an RBI single from McLaughlin in the fourth inning. Then, in the fifth, White plated Kenyon's eighth run with an RBI double. One batter later, the Owls scored their final two runs on a Bethany error. 

Kenyon junior Kylie Hamm pitched the first six innings of game one and got the win, improving her pitching record to 8-3. She gave up four runs, two earned, on eight hits and three walks, while striking out three. 

In game two, senior Jillian Messinger only needed to go three innings to pick up the win in the shortened game. She allowed just two runs on five hits. She walked one, struck out one, and moved to 2-1 on the season. Fellow senior Allison McCutchen worked the final two innings, holding the Bison scoreless on one hit.

The Owls offense was held scoreless in the first inning of game two, but then scored four times in the second and three in the third to open a comfortable 7-0 lead. In the second, White and Schlissberg had RBI knocks and Montgomery laced a two-run double to straightaway center. In the third, Montgomery drew a base-loaded walk and McLaughlin scorched a two-run single to left.

The Bison scored their two runs in the top of the fourth inning, but Avila matched that in the bottom of the inning, smacking her second home run of the season over the left-field fence.

In the bottom of the fifth inning, the Owls got the eight-run margin they needed to end it early when Schlissberg walked and later scored on a sacrifice fly from Leah Kuban, who now has a team-best and conference-leading 36 RBI on the season.

 
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