OWENSBORO, KY. – The Kentucky Wesleyan College softball team needed late inning heroics on Sunday to dispatch Ursuline College and push Head Coach Miles Mallette into the record books. The Panthers won game one of the series 8-7 in nine innings and swept the day with 9-0 victory in the finale. With the two wins, Coach Miles Mallette (353) surpassed Ken Ayers (352) as the program's all-time winningest coach in school history.
 
In game one the Panthers (14-14, 5-3 GMAC) trailed 2-0 heading into the bottom of the first inning, but the Panthers responded with four runs. After Augusta Garr was hit by a pitch to start the inning, three straight singles brought in two runs to tie the game. Guinny Garr drove in another run with a single and chased Ursuline starter Casey Barton from the circle.
 
Liza Barbato relieved Barton and put together five scoreless innings. The Arrows (5-14, 0-4 GMAC) took a 7-4 lead after three runs in the third and two in the sixth. The Panthers were down to their last out when they mounted a remarkable comeback. Kennedy Matheis started the rally with a single after Allie Dunn walked, the tying run came to the plate.
 
Grace Colvin double to left to score a run and get the Panthers within two. Lauren Pellerito followed with a single to center that tied the game. After a scoreless eighth the Arrows left the go-ahead run stranded on third in the ninth. Dunn led-off the bottom of the ninth with a walk and she took second on Colvin's sacrifice bunt. Pellerito again came-up clutch with a double down the leftfield line to end the game. 
 
Kristyn Murphy picked-up the win with six innings of relief work, allowing two unearned runs on two hits with seven strikeouts. Cam Mann, Colvin, and Pellerito each finished the contest with two hits. 
 
Game two was scoreless and hitless through three innings. The Panthers exploded in the bottom of the fourth with nine runs. Leading 4-0 already, back-to-back doubles from Colvin and Pellerito double the Wesleyan lead to 8-0. Augusta Garr followed with another RBI single to extend the lead to nine. 
 
Dunn took care of the rest in the fifth as she earned the win five innings of work, allowing just one hit with five strikeouts. 
 
The Panthers will be on the road next weekend as they travel to Hillsdale on Friday for two games. First pitch is scheduled for 12PM ET. 
 
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