GRINNELL, Iowa – It's only fitting the senior group that has played a huge role in the resurgence of Grinnell College softball come away with two wins on its special day.
 
Andi Leff '18, Kayla Morrissey '18, Maggie Remus '18 and Melissa Anderson '18 (as pictured, left to right, with coach Amanda Reckamp) propelled the Pioneers to wins of 12-4 in six innings and 6-5 over Lawrence University on Senior Day at the Softball Complex.
 
This group has helped engineer the best three-year run in Pioneer history with 48 wins, including a 21-6 mark this season and 10-2 record in Midwest Conference play. That is the most MWC wins for a Pioneer team and the 21 overall wins rank second for a team that has won 10 of its last 11 games.
 
An exciting day was capped by an exciting play, as Mya Davis '21 hit a sacrifice fly to shallow right field to score Darice Wheeler '21 from third base with the game tied at 5-all in the bottom of the seventh of the second game.
 
Wheeler and Flynn Johnson '21 each had three hits in the contest, with Johnson bashing two doubles and Wheeler a triple. Ashley Wehrenberg '18 also doubled.
 
Grinnell got three runs in the bottom of the first as Leila Bishop-Parise '21 had a delayed steal of home and Johnson belted a two-run double to left-center.
 
Lawrence scored five runs in the second, but Grinnell tied it with one run in the third and another in the fifth. In the third, Johnson had an RBI single through the right side and in the fifth, she hit a run-scoring double to right-center.
 
Wheeler was the winning pitcher in relief, striking out two in 1-1/3 innings of work.
 
Grinnell pounded out 13 hits in the opener, including three by Davis with two doubles and two by Bishop-Parise and Remus. Bishop-Parise had two doubles and Wheeler her 14th homer of the season.
 
After falling behind 1-0 in the third, Grinnell scored four times in the bottom of the inning as Bishop-Parise had a two-run double to center and Wheeler a two-run homer to center.
 
Lawrence closed within 4-3 in the fourth, but the Pioneers tacked on six runs in the bottom of the inning. Bishop-Parise had a two-run double to right, Wheeler and Remus knocked in runs on fielder's choices, Johnson hit an RBI single to right and Mikyla Murphy '19 pushed across a run on a groundout.
 
Lawrence scored a run in the fifth before Grinnell finished the game in the sixth as one run scored on an error and Emily Jordan '19 lifted a run-scoring single to left for a win via the mercy rule.
 
Remus was the winning pitcher, scattering nine hits and striking out two. She moved up Grinnell's career chart in three categories, going to fifth in sacrifice hits with 15, sixth in putouts with 338 and eighth in strikeouts with 95.
 
The Pioneers head to Mount Vernon Tuesday for a key MWC doubleheader with Cornell College. Action begins at 6:30 p.m.