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William Jewell softball has had one of the best weeks in memory since dropping a doubleheader to GLVC West-leading Missouri-St. Louis nine days ago, but they had to battle against a strong Missouri Science & Technology team to win their ninth and tenth straght games 7-2 and 4-2.

It was their fifth doubleheader sweep in a row.

Strong pitching by Faith Song in game one and Rachel Hayden in game two, along with two saves by Corinne Frei and some timely hitting, all added up to the 12th win in the last 14 games for Jewell (18-11, 11-4 GLVC).

Song (7-3) threw five hitless innings in the first game before allowing a hit in the sixth inning and three more in the seventh inning, giving up two runs in the final frame before Frei came in to face the last two batters and pick up her first save of the season.  It was Song's fifth win in the last eight days, as she allowed two runs on four hits, walked two and struck out two.

Offensive support came from Hayden's RBI double, Lexy Rozmus's RBI double, Megan Risetter's ground out RBI, and an RBI by Song.  The Cardinals had a total of six hits in the opening game.

In the second game, Missouri S&T (8-15, 7-10) jumped to a 1-0 lead on a home run against Hayden in the first inning, but Jewell came back with Ashley Barrett's RBI single in the third to tie, a run on Song's single in the fourth inning, and followed that with two more runs in the sixth inning.

With Barrett at third base and Rachel Potvin at second, Hayden's ground ball to shortstop was fielded and thrown to first to retire Hayden, but as the shortstop made the throw to first base Barrett took off for the plate.  The throw home after the out at first was wild, and Potvin came home to score on the throwing error.

Jewell had eight hits in the game, with Barrett, Potvin and Song each having two.

Hayden (7-3) got the first out of the seventh inning before allowing a hit and giving way to Frei, who again recorded the final two outs for her second save of the day and of the season.  Hayden got the win, allowing six hits, two runs, walking none and striking out three.

The Cardinals wrap up a 14 game homestand tomorrow with games against Drury University at 2:00 p.m.