A grueling stretch of Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference games is over and the UW-Stevens Point softball team will wait to see if its 13-3 record is enough for its first league title since 2001.

The Pointers played all 16 of their league games over the past 12 days, culminating with an 8-2 and 7-4 sweep of UW-Whitewater on Wednesday at McCarty Field. At 28-6 overall, UW-Stevens Point is the first team to finish league play and is assured of at least the third seed in the upcoming WIAC tournament. UW-Oshkosh is 9-1 with six games remaining, while UW-River Falls is 10-2 with four games left. The Titans and Falcons face each other in a doubleheader on Saturday in River Falls.

The Pointers achieved their success with hot hitting that continued again Wednesday as they pounded out 16 hits in the opening game and nine more in the second game. UW-Stevens Point scored 77 runs over its past 10 games, resulting in nine victories.

UW-Whitewater's Amy Gahl gave her team a quick start in the opening game with a solo home run on the second pitch of the day. However, the Pointers responded with three runs on six hits in the bottom of the inning, getting run-scoring singles from Korryn Brooks (Stevens Point/SPASH) and Melissa Boldt (New Berlin/Eisenhower).

After the Warhawks cut the lead to 3-2 in the third, the Pointers came back in the bottom of the inning when Stephanie Anderson (Milwaukee/King) scored on a two-out error. Brooks gave her team a 5-2 lead with a run-scoring single in the fourth.

Anderson, who pitched a complete game five-hitter with six strikeouts, added a three-run home run in the sixth for the final scoring. She and Brooks were each three-for-four, while Laura Van Abel was three-for-three. Boldt and Sarah Phillips (Kelowna, B.C./St. George's (R.I.)) each recorded two hits.

The Pointers had their leadoff batter on base every inning in the second game and scored in five of the six frames. Van Abel hit a sacrifice fly in the first inning and hit a run-scoring single in the fourth that put the Pointers ahead 6-0. Jackie Berger (Bonduel/Bonduel) also drove in a run on a double in the fourth and the Pointers took advantage of seven wild pitches by Warhawks' pitchers. Berger and Mandy Jellish (Kaukauna/Kaukauna) each finished two-for-three.

UW-Whitewater scored three of its runs after two outs and nobody on base in the seventh, but Hope Krause (Mishicot/Mishicot) worked out of the jam to finish with a complete game and three strikeouts.