BRANSON, Mo. - For the first time in the last six two-game days, the Kansas Wesleyan Softball team did not split the games. The Coyotes got a 12-1 run-rule win over Mission and a 4-0 win over Mount Marty to sweep the second day of games at the Branson Grand Slam Classic at the Branson RecPlex on Saturday.
Against Mission, the Coyotes plated four runs in the top of the second inning. Briannah Kutschkau led off the inning with a single and then scored on Deja Rubio's ground out. The Coyotes loaded the bases and Cadence Mallet would reach on an error that would led two runs score. Keira Hammen added a RBI single in the inning.
The Coyotes added four more in the third. Kutschkau led off with a double, followed by a hit by Rubio. Elli Han was hit by a pitch to load the bases before Brooklyn Lange single home two runs, Mallet reached on an error that yielded a run and Hammen singled to bring in the fourth tally of the frame.
Krista Yackeyonny singled home Kutschkau, who led off the inning for a third straight frame in the fourth.
In the fifth the Coyotes got hits by Lange and Mallet and a walk to Hailey Summers to load the bases. Lange scored on a wild pitch and Kutschkau drove in two with a single.
Kutschkau was 4-for-4 in the game and Rubio added three hits and three others had two each. Alli Mickelsen got the win allowing one run on four hits.
Against Mount Marty, the Coyotes got on the board in the second when Kutschkau walked and then scored on a throwing error after stealing third base.
The Coyotes blew the game open in the fourth with three runs. Hammen singled, and pinch runner Josie Buhr would score later in the inning on a wild pitch. Rubio drove in a run on a squeeze bunt play and Han drove in the third run of the frame with a single to score Cristabelle Alvarado.
Wesleyan avoided danger twice late, getting Mount Marty to leave the bases loaded in the sixth and leaving two on in the seventh.
Caitlyn Collier scattered seven hits to pick up her second shutout win of the weekend. Four different players had hits.