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The Kentucky Wesleyan softball team split a Friday doubleheader in their first two Great Midwest Athletic Conference games against Davis & Elkins in Elkins, Wva. The Panthers dropped game one by a score of 10-2, but bounced back with a 1-0 shutout victory to record the split. The Panthers record on the season is now (4-16, 1-1 G-MAC).
In the first game, Davis & Elkins got off to a fast start. The Senators scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning, off of a three-run homerun. Kaci Ovelgoenner put the Panthers on the board in the top of the second with a solo shot, to trim the deficit to 3-1. D&E would continue to add on to the lead in the bottom of the second, by scoring two more runs to lead 5-1.
In the top of the fourth, Mackenzie Weedman hit a double in leftfield, which brought home Delaney Mixer to make the score 6-2. The Senators would put the game away for good in the bottom of the sixth, as they scored four runs to lead 10-2.
The Panthers as a team collected five hits in the contest, along with three doubles. Maci Brown got the start for KWC, but Autumn Grady came in to relief for the final 3.2 innings. Grady recorded three strikeouts.
In the second game there was not as much offense, but more importantly, the Panthers took game two with a 1-0 victory.
Casey Smith picked up her first win of the season, as she threw a complete seven inning shutout. Smith was dominant all seven innings from the mound, as she gave up just five hits in the contest, and also struck out seven.
The lone run of the game came in the Panthers' top half of the third, where Meredith Daunhauer scored an unearned run off of a single to third from Delaney Mixer. Daunhauer picked up two hits in the game as well. The win gives KWC its first G-MAC win of the 2016 campaign.
The Panthers will be back in action on Tuesday, where they play at Brescia.
