Kenyon scored 11 unanswered goals as it defeated host Oberlin 16-5 on Saturday, May 1, to close its regular season.
The Lords will travel to Denison to play for the North Coast Athletic Conference Championship at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 8.
Joe Boesel had four goals and an assist, and Ethan Dewberry and Mike Matteo each scored three times and assisted on two others to lead the Lords.
Jack Guiffre led with three helpers to go with one goal and Declan Curry added three goals for Kenyon.
Joey Edell had a goal and two assists to pace the Yeomen.
MEN’S GOLF
Kenyon started Saturday’s second and final round of the NCAC Championship in third place. They ended the round with the news that senior Lawrence Courtney was awarded the conference’s Dick Gordin Player of the Year award.
In between those two moments, things didn’t go so well for the Kenyon team. The Lords recorded a round of 342 and slid all the way to eighth place with a total of 647 in the final standings.
Courtney came into the final round with a 72.25 scoring average and a second-place perch in the 45-man field. He got off to a poor start Saturday and wound up firing an 89, which dropped him into a tie for 14th place individually with a two-round total of 158.
Denison won the championship with a final team total of 582. Wittenberg was second with a 616 and DePauw University moved up to third place with a 635.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
In a match that lasted more than seven hours because play was limited to three courts, No. 12-ranked Kenyon upended host and No. 5-ranked Carnegie Mellon in the final regular-season match on Sunday, May 2.
The struggle between the two powerhouse programs boiled down to a tie-breaker in the final match on the court. With the team score tied at 4-4, the winner of the No. 6 singles contest between Kenyon’s Anna Winslow and Carnegie Mellon’s Alex Iordache determined the final outcome.
Prior to the match, the Kenyon program honored seniors Ilana Blackwood, Erika Oku, Elena Prenovitz and Kayla Pukys; who posted a 52-8 record, won two conference championships and notched a pair of NCAA Tournament wins in their time with the Ladies.
Kenyon remained unbeaten after a 9-0 win over Allegheny in NCAC play on Saturday, May 1, at VandenBerg Courts.
MEN’S TENNIS
In the final match of the abbreviated 2021 season, the Lords battled tough against host Carnegie Mellon on Sunday, May 2, but ended up on the wrong side of a 5-3 final score.
Carnegie Mellon, ranked No. 15 in the nation and sporting a 9-2 record, got on the scoreboard first with a win in No. 3 doubles. Kenyon then answered with wins in No. 1 and No. 2 doubles to take an early 2-1 team lead.
When singles play commenced, however, Carnegie Mellon took over. The Tartans got a win in No. 3 to even the overall team score at 2-2. Kenyon again countered, but it wasn’t enough. The Lords’ answer came from Luis Andres Platas, who rallied to win the No. 1 singles match 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 against Jonathan Nottingham. After that, Carnegie Mellon rattled off four straight singles wins to finalize the team score at 5-3.
Kenyon finished its NCAC schedule on Saturday, May 1, by blanking the Allegheny College Gators 9-0 at VandenBerg Courts.
BASEBALL
A late-inning 9-3 victory in Game 1 propelled Kenyon to a convincing 6-1 win in Game 2 on Saturday, May 1, at Hiram. The doubleheader sweep evened the Lords' record at 6-6.
Kyle Dwyer, the first at-bat in the eighth, smoked a shot over the right-field fence — his second homer this season — to break a 3-3 tie in the opener.
That blast sprang Kenyon to run-scoring hits from Jimmy Clark, Will Sturgeon and Brent Henderson. Additionally, Andrew Rabinowitz drew a bases-loaded walk, and Kenyon scored its ninth run after another Hiram error.
By game’s end, Sturgeon, Henderson and Dwyer each had three hits; and pitcher Pat Craig earned the win by tossing a complete game, allowing two earned runs while fanning seven.
Sam Richards and Zach Elsawy combined to give up just one unearned run while notching seven strikeouts in the 6-1 second-game victory. Offensively, Rabinowitz and Ryan Page each collected three hits.
SOFTBALL
Kenyon used great defense and pitching in Game 1 to earn a doubleheader split against Hiram in NCAC play on Sunday, May 2, in Gambier. The Ladies won the opener 2-1 before falling 11-1 in the second contest.
Junior Emily Pater’s Game 1 performance in the circle played a huge part in the Ladies earning their first win, a 2-1 victory against the Terriers.
She tossed a complete game, forcing a combined 14 flyouts and groundouts, and allowing just one run.
Paige Milhon led off the third with a single to right. A couple of batters later, Bella Albrecht doubled, moving two runners into scoring position. Pater then cleaned things up with a two-bagger of her own to left center, giving Kenyon a 2-1 advantage.
In the second contest, the Terriers rebounded with 11 runs on 13 hits.
Host Hiram took both contests over Kenyon on Saturday, May 1, winning by scores of 15-0 and 8-0 in games that went five innings.
Mariah Sheffield and Giselle Bahena had three hits and two runs apiece to lead the Terriers in Game 1, with Sheffield adding three RBIs. Kaitlyn Hager tossed a three-hit shutout for Hiram win.
In Game 2, Angel Santellan had two hits, and Hager and Giselle Chavez each drove in a pair of runs to back pitchers Jeskari Rodriguez (three innings) and Santellan (two innings), who combined for a four-hit shutout.
