CLEREMONT, FL - The UW-Stevens Point softball team rebounded with a pair of wins in day two at the Dot Richardson Softball Spring Games. The team won 3-2 over Bethel University and 9-1(5 innings) against Bates College.

In game one, a trio of pitchers combined for a six hit, 3-2 win over Bethel University. Amelia Heup (Milwaukee, WI/Lutheran), Averi Kanyuh (Rapid River, WI/Rapid River) and Maddie Durie (Appleton, WI/East) pitched 2.1 innings surrendering two hits each. Kanyuh earned her first collegiate win with a one run, one walk and two strike out stat line.

In the bottom of the second, the Royals got on the scoreboard first with an Anna Nichols solo shot over the left-center fence. Heup held them to just the one run, retiring the next two in order.

For the next two innings, neither team could get anything going offensively, respectively. It wasn't until the top of the fifth when the Pointers took advantage of a Royal fielding obstruction miscue that led to three runs.

In the bottom of the fifth, Bethel inched closer knocking in a run to cut the lead to 3-2. The Royals led off with a Jessica Davis single. Casey Marcus replaced Davis after hitting into a 4-3 fielder's choice, but later scored on a Abbie Bircher double. The Pointers limited the damage to just one with a pop up to Sheahan to end the inning.

The Royals threatened to tie the game with a runner on second base with one out, but Durie shut down the Royals, ending the inning with a short pop up to Katie Uhlenbrauck (Hortonville, WI/Hortonville) for a 3-2 Pointers win.

In game two, the Pointers combined for 11 hits, nine runs for a 9-1 (5 innings) victory over Bates College.

Bates scored first in the top of the first, but that was all that Heup, Kanyuh and Durie allowed in five innings of work.

After two Pointer runs in the bottom of second, the Bobcats threatened to score in the top half, but were halted by Cooper's throw home to Paige Kitzing (Mount Pleasant, WI/J.J. Case), tagging Maddie Inlow for the final out of the inning. 

The Pointers tallied runs in the remaining three innings to walk away with a 9-1 victory in five innings. 

Uhlenbrauck led the Pointers, going 3-for-3 with four RBI. Morgan Johnson (Combined Locks, WI/Kaukauna) and Kitzing tallied two hits each as well.

The Pointers are back on the field, Saturday, March 19 playing Transylvania and the University of Chicago. The first pitch is set for 1 p.m.