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GAMBIER, Ohio – The Otterbein softball team run-ruled Kenyon in game one and scored a season-high 11 runs in game two Thursday afternoon. The Cardinals used one inning to do majority of the damage in both the first and second game of the doubleheader.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

GAME ONE: OTTERBEIN – 9, KENYON – 0 (FINAL 5 INN.)

• The Cardinals erupted in the second inning by scoring six runs, as Courtney Hackney ripped a double to left center to score Anna Edwards for the first run. Alyson McAdams followed up Hackney's double with her second double of the year to give Otterbein a 2-0 edge.
• Alyson Shaw hit her second double of the day and scored Maria Herron, as Katrinia Wierzbicki and Hannah Dobrinick each tallied an RBI to give the Cardinals a 6-0 lead.
• In the fourth inning, Dobrinick hit her second double of the afternoon and scored both Shaw and Wierzbicki.
• Gabby Johnson and Alex McComb combined to pitch all five innings and only allow two hits.

 
GAME TWO: OTTERBEIN – 11, KENYON – 4

• Kenyon was able to gain an early lead on the Cardinals by scoring three runs in the first two innings.
• Otterbein would use one inning to take the lead by scoring five runs in the third inning, as Edwards helped her own cause on the mound by hitting a double to left center and driving in two runs.
• The Cardinals kept the bats going in the fourth as Shaw singled up the middle to score Herron. Wierzbicki had a hard hit double to right field scoring Shaw and helping the Cardinals extend their lead.
• Otterbein added three more runs in the sixth inning to extend its lead to eight runs, as Kenyon kept the game alive by scoring one run in the bottom half of the frame.

 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE:

• Otterbein tallied double-digit runs for the second time this season, as the first game came on the final day of the spring trip against Plymouth State.
• Edwards has either scored a run or had an RBI in five of her seven starts this season, as the Cardinals have won the three games in which the senior has recorded an RBI.
• The Cardinals registered a season-high with 11 runs and 15 hits in game two of the doubleheader.
• Shaw reached base seven times with five hits and two walks over the course of both games.

UP NEXT:
Otterbein will begin conference play Saturday on the road against Mount Union with first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m.