UW-Stevens Point used a big inning in each game to sweep a softball doubleheader from UW-Superior and extend its winning streak to nine games on Sunday at McCarty Field.

The 5-2 and 7-5 wins give the Pointers their best record after 22 games in school history at 19-3 overall and 4-0 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. UW-Superior is 10-10 overall and 0-2 in the league.

UW-Stevens Point scored all five of its runs in the opening game in the fourth inning. Trailing 1-0 entering the frame, Korryn Brooks (Stevens Point/SPASH) tied the game with a run-scoring single and Melissa Boldt (New Berlin/Eisenhower) put her team ahead with a run-scoring hit. Chelsea McIlquham (Sun Prairie/Sun Prairie) later added a two-run single and then scored on a double by Mandy Jellish (Kaukauna/Kaukauna) to put the Pointers ahead 5-1.

The Yellowjackets rallied with an unearned run in the sixth, but Pointers' hurler Stephanie Anderson (Milwaukee/King) put them away in order in the seventh to finish with a complete game five-hitter and six strikeouts. UW-Stevens Point totaled 12 hits in the victory with eight different players recording a hit.

The Pointers jumped on UW-Superior with four runs in the second inning of the second game as Brooks led off the inning with a triple and scored on a home run by Anderson. Pinch-runner Alina Ziomek (Janesville/Craig) scored on an error and Jackie Berger (Bonduel/Bonduel) followed with a run-scoring single for a 4-0 lead.

Another RBI single from Berger put the Pointers ahead 5-0 in the fifth and Jellish scored on an error later in the inning for a six-run cushion. UW-Stevens Point needed all of its insurance runs as UW-Superior tallied once in the fifth and four times in the sixth, getting a two-run homer from Melissa Kunzelman to pull within 7-5. However, Pointers' pitcher Hope Krause (Mishicot/Mishicot) did not allow another hit and earned the complete game victory. All five runs allowed by Krause were unearned as she struck out four and walked none.