MOUNT VERNON, Iowa - Grinnell College's softball team collected two more easy victories Saturday, and another trip to the Midwest Conference Tournament in the process while establishing three new career school records.

Grinnell secured its third consecutive MWC Tourney berth by toppling Cornell College 13-1 in five innings and 11-3 in six innings. The Pioneers, who have won eight in a row with seven of those by the mercy rule, have outscored foes 115-5 in that span. 

Samantha Chu '24 became Grinnell's all-time leader for runs scored with 118 and total bases with 276, while Taylor Durak '24 set a new mark for RBIs with 126. Chu is also Grinnell's all-time leader for runs in a season with 50.

Kambria Anson '24 tied a school record for runs scored in a game with four in the opener while going 4-for-4 at the plate. Durak added three hits, while Chu, Jasmine Oda '25 and Alexa Okada '24 had two each.

Christin Hartman '24 tossed a complete-game eight-hitter and struck out three.

Grinnell broke out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on Emma DiGiacomo-Zahller's '24 RBI fielder's choice before breaking things open with a five-run second. Durak blasted a three-run double in the frame, Anson plated a run with a single and Hannah Dykstra '25 had a sacrifice fly.

Cornell got its run in the bottom of the second before the visitors scored twice in the third on Durak's two-run double. The Pioneers tacked on five more in the fifth as DiGiacomo-Zahller hit a two-run single, Anson knocked an RBI single and Sofia DiCarlo '25 had an RBI on a fielder's choice.

Grinnell (10-2 MWC, 21-13 overall) finished off the sweep in the second game. Chu, Dykstra and Oda each had three hits, while Durak and Kathryn Vermeulen '24 added two hits apiece. Grinnell had six doubles in the game to tie a school record set in 2019 against Ripon College.

Vermeulen helped her own cause in the pitching circle, as she fired a five-hitter and fanned two.

Grinnell got out to 3-0 lead as Durak had a sacrifice fly in the first - her school-record fifth of the season - and Chu hit an RBI single in the second to go with Okada's RBI groundout. Cornell (7-5 MWC, 13-16 overall) cut the gap to 3-2 before the Pioneers got some breathing room with six runs in the fifth. Chu blasted a two-run homer, Lizzy Vermeulen '24, Kathryn Vermuelen and Okada added run-scoring doubles and Oda pushed across a run with a single. Grinnell finished off its scoring in the sixth on Dykstra's two-run homer.

As a team, Grinnell now has set three season records with year in 275 runs scored, 253 RBIs and 18 sacrifice flies.

Besides the marks by Chu and Durak, there was plenty more movement on Grinnell's career chart. Chu now ranks second in at-bats with 423 and fielding assists with 265, Anson moved to third in runs scored with 95 and eighth in total bases with 168 and Hartman is eighth in strikeouts with 152.

The Pioneers finish the regular season next weekend with two home doubleheaders, beginning Saturday against Lawrence University.