The Buena Vista softball team got a pair of strong pitching performances and some timely hitting on Saturday afternoon, as the Beavers picked up a much needed sweep of Coe College by scores of 4-3 and 2-0 in Iowa Conference games played at Mount Mercy University due to unplayable conditions in Storm Lake.

Coe plated an unearned run in the first inning to take an early 1-0 lead, and that's how things stood until freshman Kate Lesmeiester launched her third home run of the year - a three-run shot in the fourth - to give BVU a 3-1 lead.

Moriah Guyett was dealing for most of the game, not allowing a hit until the fourth, but then things got interesting in the seventh.  After the Kohawks scored one run to make it 3-2, Carlee Guyett came up with what may have been the play of the game, snatching a bunt attempt out in front of the plate and reaching back to tag what would have been the game-tying run from scoring.  Coe did, however, score the game on a ground-rule double, before Guyett got a popup to end the inning.

BVU wasted no time in the home half, loading the bases with no outs to set up Michaela Mason's game-winning sacrifice fly to right.

Carlee Guyett had yet another big game, going 4-for-4 with a double to lead off the game, and in the process sets a new school single-season record with her 15th two-bagger of the year.  Mckynze Hansen chalked up three hits and scored once while Lesmeister also added a double and finished with two hits.

Guyett improves to 9-4 inside the circle this season, allowing just one earned run on five hits while striking out three and walking three.  It was her 12th complete-game in 16 appearances this season.  She now has 43 complete games in her career, moving her within one of Sarah Dirkx for ninth on the program's all-time list.  Her 37 career wins are now tied for fifth on the all-time charts.

Junior Marissa Promes picked up where Guyett left off inside the circle as she took the ball in game two.  Following a lead-off walk, she went on to retire 14 straight batters before issuing her second walk of the game with two out in the fifth.  She didn't allow a single hit until there was one out in the sixth and not a single Kohawk reached third base in the contest.

BVU got on the board with an RBI single from Autumn Boland in the first inning before adding an insurance run in the third when Boland reached on a fielder's choice.

Five different Beavers recorded a single in the contest, including Guyett, who has hit safely in all 10 conference games this season and in 28 of the team's 30 games overall.  She's currently sixth in the IIAC with a .439 average.

Promes improved to 8-5 with the complete-game, two-hit shutout.  It's her second shutout of the year and the fourth time in 12 starts that she allowed two hits or fewer.

The two wins give BVU its first doubleheader sweep of the Kohawks since 2002 and just its fifth sweep all-time.  The Kohawks (17-11, 5-3 IIAC) were ranked fifth just ahead of the Beavers in the first NCAA Midwest Regional rankings released just this past Thursday.

Buena Vista improves to 19-11 overall (4-6 IIAC) and looks to keep the momentum going on Sunday when the team travels to Loras College (17-12, 5-3 IIAC) for a make-up doubleheader starting at 12:00pm.  The Duhawks come in winners of four straight after they swept the University of Dubuque on Saturday.