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pitchers
Shannon Killion
10
Winner Grinnell GRINNELL 18-13
0
Monmouth (Ill.) MONMOUTH 5-27
Winner
Grinnell GRINNELL
18-13
10
Final
0
Monmouth (Ill.) MONMOUTH
5-27
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Grinnell GRINNELL 0 5 0 0 2 0 3 10 12 0
Monmouth (Ill.) MONMOUTH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1

W: Hartman, Christin (8-3) L: K. Cobb (3-3)

18
Winner Grinnell College GCSB 19-13
0
Monmouth (Ill.) MONSB 5-28
Winner
Grinnell College GCSB
19-13
18
Final
0
Monmouth (Ill.) MONSB
5-28
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Grinnell College GCSB 7 4 1 3 3 18 16 2
Monmouth (Ill.) MONSB 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5

W: Vermeulen, Kathryn (8-7) L: A. Steward (0-1)

Game Recap: Softball | | Ted Schultz

GC softball team keeps up its winning ways as senior pitchers establish school records

MONMOUTH, Ill. - Grinnell College's softball team kept up its recent momentum Monday on a day when the Pioneers' senior pitchers established program records.

Christin Hartman '24 led Grinnell to a 10-0 victory over Monmouth College in Monday's opener, her school-record eighth career shutout. In the second game, an 18-0 decision, Kathryn Vermeulen '24 collected her GC-record 33rd career victory.

Grinnell stretched its winning streak to six games, outscoring its foes 91-1 in that span. Grinnell remained entrenched among the Midwest Conference leaders with the victories, improving to 8-2 in league play and 19-13 overall. The Fighting Scots dipped to 3-7 in the MWC and 5-28 in all games.

The Pioneers slugged out 12 hits in the opener and got a complete-game pitching victory from Hartman, who scattered six hits and struck out nine without walking a batter. The shutout allowed her to pass Lee Anne Steinberg for the record. Hartman also ranks 10th in program history with 241.1 innings pitched. 

Kambria Anson '24, Taylor Durak '24, Hannah Dykstra '25, Emma DiGiacomo-Zahller '24 and Sofia DiCarlo '25 all had two hits in the game. Grinnell went to work in the second inning with five runs, as Kyra Killion '24, DiCarlo and Anson all had RBI singles, Alexa Okada '24 plated a run with a sacrifice and another scored on a wild pitch.

In the fifth, Durak belted an RBI double and DiGiacomo-Zahller added a sacrifice fly. The Pioneers tacked on three runs in the seventh as Dykstra, DiGiacomo-Zahller and DiCarlo all had RBI singles.

The second game marked the fifth in the past six that Grinnell won by the mercy rule. While chalking up her school-record victory, where she passed Kate Reynolds, Vermeulen gave up just one hit, struck out five and didn't walk a batter in four innings. She moved her career innings pitched total to 336.2, which ranks sixth in program history. Emma Trani '26 worked the final inning and had two strikeouts.

The Pioneer offense erupted for 16 hits, with DiGiacomo-Zahller leading the way with three. Grinnell went up 11-0 through two innings, scoring seven in the first on RBI singles by Durak, DiGiacomo-Zahller, Vermeulen, Lizzy Vermeulen '24 and Anson, a bases-loaded walk to Okada and sacrifice fly by Samantha Chu '24.

In the second, Kathryn Vermeulen had an RBI single, Chu hit a sacrifice fly and Jasmine Oda '25 had an RBI and later scored on a wild pitch. With her second sac fly, Chu tied the school record for a game.

Oda added an RBI in the third before the Pioneers put up three runs in both the fourth and fifth innings. In the fourth, Chu belted a solo homer and Elyse Pender '27 and Oda added RBI singles. Durak blasted a three-run homer in the seventh. She scored four runs in the game to tie a school record.

Durak now ranks third in career runs scored with 92 and fourth in walks with 49. Anson is fourth in career hits with 138 and 10th for total bases with 164.

Grinnell has a big MWC test Saturday when it plays a twin bill at Cornell College, beginning at 1 p.m.
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