Kansas Wesleyan Softball earned a doubleheader split with the York University Panthers on Tuesday at the Salina South softball fields. York won the first game 2-1 and the Coyote offense came alive in the second game winning 7-0.
In the opener of the doubleheader neither team scored until the fifth inning when the Coyotes got on the board. Morgan Rasmussen led off the inning with a walk and then scored on a double by Kendell Wilcox to make it 1-0.
York would get a 2-run homer in the top of the sixth inning to take the lead.
The Coyotes tried to rally in the bottom of the inning as Madison Geer singled but the Coyotes could not push a run across.
Five different Coyotes had hits in the game. Alli Mickelsen suffered the loss in the circle in a complete game, allowing two runs on six hits and striking out six.
The Coyotes would take advantage of five York errors over the first two innings to win 7-0 over the Panthers.
In the first inning, Brooklyn Lange led off with a double and then scored when Elli Han doubled and went to third on an error. Wilcox reached on an error and later in the inning Keira Hammen drove in a run on a fielder's choice and the MacKenzie Vela reached on an error and Hammen would steal home to make it 3-0.
The Coyotes would add four more in the second. Addie Herrera reached on an error and Han would drive in pinch runner Maya Nunn with a sacrifice bunt. Wilcox then reached on an error setting up Hammen's 2-run homer to make it 7-0.
Wesleyan had a chance to end it in the bottom of the fifth, loading the bases but the Coyotes couldn't push a run across.
Lange had three of KWU's eight hits in the second game. Herrera went the distance in the circle for the Coyotes scattering three hits and striking out four.