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WESTERVILLE, Ohio – The Cardinal softball team took both games of a doubleheader against Kenyon on Sunday afternoon, as the home opener originally set for Saturday was postponed due to cold weather conditions.

Otterbein (8-4 overall) will face Mount St. Joseph on the road Tuesday evening in a non-conference matchup. First pitch of game one is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Game One – Won, 3-0

Junior Gabby Johnson dominated Kenyon in game one allowing just three hits while fanning 10 batters to make it two of the last three games with double-digit strikeouts.

Johnson allowed just one hit through the first six innings on a leadoff single to begin the game, then retired 10-straight hitters before surrendering a walk in the fourth frame.

Freshman Katrina Wierzbicki got the Cardinals on the scoreboard in the bottom half of the second inning, launching her first collegiate home run on a solo shot over the center field fence.

Otterbein added on a pair of insurance runs in the last half of the fourth inning after seniors Megan Garner and Rachael Owens reached base on singles, before sophomore Courtney Hackney delivered a two-run single to right field.

Johnson then struck out five batters over the final three frames to close out the game for her fourth win of the season. Garner led the Cards in the game with a perfect 3-for-3 mark at the plate.

Game Two – Won, 11-3 (6inn.)

The Cardinal offense was the headline of game two as it exploded for a pair of three-run innings, once in the first after trailing 1-0 before adding one run in the third and another three the following frame.

Otterbein totaled four hits in the initial inning led by a two-run double off the left field fence from junior Bailey McElwain before senior Maddie Flasco pushed across another run on a single which scored junior Alyson Shaw.

Wierzbicki stepped to the plate next for the Cards and blasted her second home run of the day, this one a two-run shot, on a ball that landed well over the right center field fence to increase the lead to 7-1.

Kenyon got two runs back in its half of the fifth inning on a two-run homer, exiting Owens, the winning pitcher now at 2-2 on the year, from the circle after four and a third innings pitched with one strikeout.

Junior Anna Edwards threw the remaining two and two thirds innings in relief and allowed no hits and walked just one Kenyon hitter.  Wierzbicki finished the doubleheader going 5-for-7 with two home runs, two doubles, four runs batted-in and four runs scored.