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OMAHA, Neb. -- The Bellevue University softball team won its fifth-straight game after sweeping College of St. Mary in Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference action Saturday afternoon at Heritage Park.
The Bruins won the opener, 2-0, before posting a 14-1 victory, in five innings, in the nightcap.
With the two wins, Bellevue improved to 19-11 and 6-2 in the MCAC while College of St. Mary fell to 7-13 overall and 3-3 in conference action.
The Bruins will play host to Waldorf College (26-2, 4-2 MCAC) on Monday, April 7. First pitch is set for 1:00 p.m. at Hall of Fame Fields.
Bellevue 2, College of St. Mary 0
Bellevue scored runs in the third and sixth innings to defeat the Flames, 2-0, in the first game.
BU used three-straight two-out singles by Ashley Gigax, Katie Malloy and Augusta Ratliff to score the first run of the game in the third inning.
Courtney Schendt led the top of the sixth with a double and came around to score on a CSM error to give the a Bruins a two-run lead.
Gigax went 2-for-3 at the plate and eight different Bruins finished with a hit.
Kelli Fisher improved to 10-3 on the season and recorded seven strikeouts in the complete game win. Fisher gave up just five hits, without a walk.
Leah Kipfer took the loss for CSM and fell to 4-5. She allowed two runs on nine hits with six strikeouts.
Bellevue 14, College of St. Mary 1 (5 innings)
Nine different players recorded a hit as Bellevue cruised to the 14-1 win, in five innings, in the finale. The Bruins scored a run in each inning.
Katy Shupe collected three RBIs and two runs scored and Sydney Robertson, Gigax, Malloy, Ratliff and Schendt notched multi-hit games.
Ratliff and Schendt notched RBIs in the first inning to give the Bruins an early two-run advantage.
Caitlin Rodenburg hit a solo home run in the bottom half of the first inning for the Flames' lone run of the second game.
The Bruins exploded for eight runs on seven hits and took advantage of two errors by CSM to take a commanding 10-1 lead in the second inning.
Malloy notched an RBI single in the third and the Bruins scored a run on a CSM balk and a Shupe sacrifice fly in the fourth before an Alyssa Matoba RBI groundout in the fifth.
Taylor Mohler earned the win and struck out eight CSM batters and held the Flames to only two hits.
Jamie Zimmerer suffered the loss after giving up six runs on six hits in only 1.1 innings pitched.
The Bruins outhit the Flames by 13, 15-2.
