Seven Bellevue home runs help Bruins sweep Waldorf

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FOREST CITY, Iowa -- Bellevue University hit seven home runs to lift the Bruins to a pair of Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference wins Wednesday evening at Al Buckley Field.

Bellevue (30-14, 14-4 MCAC) cruised past the Warriors in the opener, 10-0, before posting a 7-5 comeback victory in the finale.

Waldorf slipped to 33-9 overall and 8-8 in league play with the two home losses.

The Bruins will play their final conference doubleheader when they host York College for a 3 p.m. doubleheader on Friday, April 25 at Hall of Fame Fields.

Bellevue 10, Waldorf 0 (5 innings)

Bellevue hit four home runs and pounded out 12 hits as they cruised to a 10-0 win in game one.

Ashley Gigax belted a pair of home runs and finished with five RBIs and Taylor Mohler, Alyssa Matoba, Sydney Robertson and Katy Shupe all finished with two hits.

Kelli Fisher earned her 15th victory of the season with five strikeouts.

BU recorded four first inning hits as they raced out to an early 3-0 advantage. Shelby Kindelin opened the game with a lead-off home run and the Bruins scored on a sacrifice fly by Gigax and a Mohler RBI single.

Gigax blasted her team-leading sixth homer of the season and Shupe added a two-run single as BU took a 7-0 lead in the second. 

Mohler hit her first career home run in the third inning to give the Bruins an eight-run lead.

Gigax notched her second two-run home run of the game to extend BU's lead to 10-0 in the fourth.

Marisa Donnelly took the loss for the Warriors and fell to 18-6. She gave up 10 runs on 11 hits in 3.1 innings of work.

The Bruins outhit WC by a 12-3 margin with five extra-base hits.

Bellevue 7, Waldorf 5

The Bruins hit a pair and home runs in the final inning to complete the conference sweep, 7-5.

Neither team registered a hit until the Bruins belted three in the third, scoring four runs, sparked by a two-run homer by Gigax and and an RBI double by Shupe. 

The Warriors fought back in the bottom of the third, scoring a pair of runs on five-straight hits, including an RBI triple by Ashley Brandt and a one-run single by Carla Smith, cutting the deficit to 4-2.

Maggie Eden's three-run home run in the bottom of the fifth gave the Warriors a 5-4 lead.

Shupe tallied a solo home run before Malloy's two-run homer, which proved to be the difference, as the Bruins sweep the series with the Warriors this season.

Mohler fanned seven batters en route to her 14th win.

Maggie Hawley dropped to 15-3 and allowed seven runs on nine hits for WC.