KANEOHE, Hawaii – With her team holding a one-run lead in the final inning of Monday's Pacific West Conference doubleheader, senior catcher/infielder Lauryn Henderson swung away, began to run, and looked up at history in the making.

Just as majestic as her first as a collegiate student-athlete back on Feb. 3, 2018, the 23rd home run in Henderson's career broke the program record, helping secure a 6-3 victory over Chaminade to split a day the Urban Knights out-hit the Silverswords twice at Howard A. Okita Field.

Game one also featured an ART U homer, this one from freshman infielder Haley Randall, but Chaminade came back late to win 3-2. However, Academy of Art returned the favor in the day's finale as senior utility Alyssa Rasmussen's run-scoring double broke a 3-3 tie before Henderson crushed her fourth long ball of the season.

GAME 1 – CUH 3, ART U 2
The Urban Knights were the first to threaten in game one, logging pairs of hits in each of the first two innings, but it was not until the bottom of the second that the first run was scored. Chaminade mirrored their opponent by loading the bases to start their half of inning two before a two-run double gave them a 2-0 lead.

After senior catcher Alyssa Brundage led off the fourth with a single, sophomore pitcher/infielder Katie Humphreys brought her teammate home on a single, making it a one-run game which Randall soon changed with one swing of the bat. Two pitches into the fifth inning, Randall deposited her second home run of the season beyond the center field fence and it was anyone's game tied at 2-2.

In relief of junior pitcher Haley Arnold-Jolley (2-14), who had been strong in her four innings of work as the starter, sophomore pitcher Jolene Rhoades (5-15) kept the Silverswords off the scoreboard in the fifth, getting two foul outs with a runner in scoring position. The sixth frame was a different story as a leadoff homer ended up being the difference-maker in a 3-2 final despite Academy of Art putting the potential tying run on base in the bottom of the seventh.

GAME 2 – ART U 6, CUH 3
Scoring first in the second contest, the Knights utilized a one-out double from Randall to set the table for Brundage's single plus a fielding error in the first inning. Chaminade would respond in similar fashion later that frame as two hits and two errors resulted in three runs, two unearned, for a 3-1 score.

Both Arnold-Jolley and Taylor Genera (5-8) settled in over the next three innings, dueling with scoreless frames back and forth before the fifth arrived. There, Humphreys opened with a double down the left field line then, one batter later, it was sophomore outfielder Cailee Grayhorse-Pupecki who roped the third triple of her career down the opposite line to shorten the gap to 3-2.

The comeback was completed in the sixth when a Henderson leadoff double was followed by a Brundage single that once again included a fielding error for the 3-3 tie ballgame. Arnold-Jolley pitched through two ART U miscues in the home half of the sixth to set up what became a defining inning for Academy of Art in the seventh.

Walking on four pitches, junior outfielder Bethany Mitchell soon stood on second base after a sacrifice bunt and, moments later, stepped on home plate thanks to a double from Rasmussen. Not satisfied with simply taking the lead, ART U added on in a big way when Henderson struck a 2-0 pitch with the force that has been her signature over her five-year career, homering to left center while passing Brenna Youngquist in the record books and putting her team firmly ahead 6-3. Rhoades entered in the bottom half and shut the door on Chaminade for the first save of her Academy of Art career.
 
The Knights, now 8-37 overall and 5-17 in PacWest play, were led by plenty of multi-hit games including two for Henderson (4-for-8 with a homer, a double, two runs batted in, and two runs scored), Randall (also 5-for-8 with a homer, a double, one RBI, and two runs scored), and Brundage (5-for-7). Humphreys, who was 3-for-3 in game two, finished 4-for-6 with a double and one RBI while Grayhorse-Pupecki was 2-for-5 with a triple and one RBI and Rasmussen added a 1-for-4 effort with a double, one RBI, and one run scored in the day's finale.

Arnold-Jolley posted 10.0 innings across the two games, picking up the win in the second by way of one earned run allowed on nine hits with one walk and one strikeout in 6.0 frames completed. Rhoades' scoreless inning after her teammate in that one marked the team's second save of the year.

Chaminade, 13-22 on the year and 9-17 in conference action, rode Jaeda Cabunoc's (8-12) complete 7.0 innings with two runs allowed on 10 hits and one walk plus two strikeouts to a win in the series opener while Genera drove in a pair with a double on the offensive end. Genera would then take the loss in the second contest, surrendering five earned runs on 12 hits with two walks and two strikeouts as her team had just one RBI at the plate.

The Urban Knights will return to Howard A. Okita Field for the final doubleheader of their Hawaii roadtrip tomorrow, wrapping up their series with the Silverswords at 1 p.m. HT (4 p.m. PT).