KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Kansas Wesleyan Softball split its doubleheader with Park University on Wednesday at the Homefield Complex. KWU won the first game 7-5 and Park won the second 4-3.
It was the second of three straight days of softball for the Coyotes, who are trying to make up games lost from the beginning of the season due to inclement weather.
Wednesday's games were played at Homefield due to unplayable field conditions at Park's on-campus facility.
The Coyotes took a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the first game as Trenity Miller singled to score Brooklyn Lange who had singled earlier in the inning.
Park took the lead 2-1 with a pair of runs in the bottom of the inning.
It stayed 2-1 until the fourth when the Coyotes got a run across as Deja Rubio reached on an error then later scored on Elli Han's single to right. Park regained the lead in the bottom of the inning with two runs.
KWU took the lead in the sixth. Rubio led off with a walk and then it was a 2-out rally for the Coyotes as Briannah Kutschkau singled home the first run of the inning and then scored on Lange's single. Cadence Mallet followed with a RBI single in the inning as well putting the Coyotes up 5-4.
Wesleyan extended the lead in the seventh, taking advantage of an error. Rubio and Hailey Summers singled and then Kutschkau reached on an error when her fly ball was dropped that allowed Rubio to score. Han then drove in the second run of the inning on another sacrifice fly.
Park got one run back in the bottom of the inning, but couldn't complete the rally.
Lange and Mallet had two hits each for the Coyotes. Caitlyn Collier went the distance allowing five runs, three earned, on 12 hits while striking out six without issuing a walk.
Shiloh Johnson broke the scoreless tie in the second inning of the second game with a 2-run single that scored Mallet and Rubio.
The Coyotes added another run in the fourth when Rubio singled, Jenna Soule doubled, Johnson walked and Kutschkau brought in the run with a fielder's choice.
Park then put on its rally caps, scoring twice in the fourth and tying things up in the bottom of the sixth.
The Pirates then won it on a walk-off in the bottom of the seventh.
Johnson had two of KWU's six hits in the game. Alli Mickelsen went four innings in the circle but took a no decision allowing two runs on six hits. Bella Allen suffered the tough luck loss pitching two and a third innings, allowing two runs on five hits.