Kendyll Cahill pitchers Mount Union softball to College World Series

ALLIANCE — Virginia, here they come. Mount Union's historic softball season will end at the finish line in the NCAA Division III College World Series. The Purple Raiders swept a doubleheader from Massachusetts-Dartmouth 5-2 and 4-1 on May 21 to win the best-of-three super regional and advance to the World Series for the first time.

The Purple Raiders (35-7) scored all their runs in the first game in the fifth inning. Grace Bates tied the game at 2-2 with a two-run single. Bates and McKayla Miller scored the go-ahead runs on an error.

A wild pitch brought home Kaitlyn Culver. Winning pitcher Kendyll Cahill threw a complete game in the opener for Mount Union. Cahill's two-run home run in the fourth inning gave the Purple Raiders a 2-0 lead in the second game.

After Massachusetts-Dartmouth cut the lead in half, Mount Union's Lydia Brunner hit a two-run triple in the sixth to stretch the lead. Cahill threw another complete game in the second game. She allowed no earned runs and three hits.