Ladies move to 20-8 with softball sweep of Pioneers
MARIETTA – In an April 10 nonconference doubleheader at Marietta College, the Kenyon College softball team ran its season record to 20-8 after sweeping the host Pioneers.
In the first game, the Ladies chalked up a 9-7 win and then followed that up with a 5-0 victory.
Kenyon was propelled by a six-run second inning in the opener that included just one hit. The first three Ladies to the plate in that inning drew walks. Nicole Bishay was then hit by a pitch and Clare McMahon drew another walk to plate the first two Kenyon runs of the day. A Marietta error followed and allowed one more Kenyon run to score. Grace Finn then ripped a single to give the Ladies a 4-1 lead. A wild pitch scored McMahon, and a groundout from Emily Buckwalter scored Maddie Friday, who pushed the Kenyon lead to 6-1.
Marietta scored twice in the third inning off Kenyon starter Emily Pater, but Pater got one of those runs back in the fifth inning, smacking an RBI groundout.
In the top of the sixth, with two out, Kenyon tacked on a couple insurance runs. Finn got things going with a walk. Sara Campagna doubled and Buckwalter did the same, plating both Finn and Campagna.
Pater stayed in the circle to close things out. She got into a jam in the bottom of the seventh but worked her way out of it to secure the win. In her seven innings of work, she struck out two and yielded 13 hits and a walk.
In Game 2, Bishay and Marietta’s Amelia Timko were locked in a pitchers’ duel through five innings. In the top of the sixth, however, the Kenyon offense tagged Timko for five runs.
McMahon opened the big inning with a one-out double. Olivia Hurley drew a walk, and Friday singled to score McMahon. Finn then singled up the middle to score two more Kenyon runs. Later in the inning, Bella Albrecht singled home Finn and Natalya Delsante closed out the scoring with a sacrifice fly to right field.
That was all of the scoring in Game 2, and it was more than enough for Bishay. She threw all seven innings for Kenyon and allowed just three hits. She fanned three and didn’t walk a batter.
Over the course of the twinbill, Albrecht and Finn both had three hits and both scored two runs. Finn also had three RBIs. Friday and McMahon both had two hits and scored twice. Buckwalter added two hits and matched Finn’s mark with three RBIs.
Men split senior day tennis matches
GAMBIER – Sunday afternoon, the Kenyon College men’s tennis team celebrated Senior Day with an 8-1 split-squad win over Wabash College inside the Jasper Tennis Center.
A few hours later, the rest of the team went outdoors to play but dropped a tight 6-3 match to University of Northwestern Ohio at VandenBerg Courts.
The split put the No. 25-ranked Lords’ season record at 9-7 overall, with two matches left on their regular-season schedule. Wabash slipped to 6-11 after the loss ,and Northwestern Ohio improved to 19-3 with the win.
In the early match against Wabash, senior Matias Mauviel picked up two team points by winning his singles and doubles matches. In singles, he played at No. 3 and defeated Liam Grennon 6-4, 6-2. In doubles, he played at No. 2 with fellow senior Angelo Vidal to dial up an 8-4 victory over Alvaro Alonso-Sanchez and Jett Brownlee. Vidal, like Mauviel, also earned a pair of points. Prior to his doubles win he chalked up a 6-2, 6-1 win over Brownlee at No. 5 singles.
Henry Wessel, another senior, put together a 6-1, 6-2 victory against Cole Borden in the No. 1 singles match. That victory was part of a straight sweep in singles play for the Lords. Jacob Smith, Harshal Rukhaiyar and Subhan Bin Salik accounted for the other Kenyon wins.
While the Lords coasted against Wabash, they later were locked in a tight battle with Northwestern Ohio. In that contest, four of the six singles matches went to a third set. Kenyon got wins from Luis Andres Platas at No. 1 singles and from Eric Zhang at No. 4 singles. Platas topped Sergio Conde 2-6, 6-3, 10-6, and Zhang finished off Malik Omarkhanov 3-6, 6-2, 11-9.
The other Kenyon point came from Thomas Kallarakal and Rishil Kondapaneni who posted an 8-5 win against David Ayguavives and Nils Messin in the No. 3 doubles match.
