STORM LAKE, Iowa (April 20, 2022) - The Buena Vista softball team belted seven home runs over its two games on Wednesday night against Central, including six during the game one marathon, and the Beavers picked up a big doubleheader sweep of the Dutch by scores of 17-13 and 4-2, respectively.

Senior Ashtyn Miller launched three runs to help lead the charge while freshman Chloe Wells blasted two.  The duo went back-to-back on two separate occasions, including in the team's seven-run sixth inning that put them up 17-10.  After Central pushed across two early runs, senior Savanna Pohlmann who had only appeared in four games entering the day, sent the second pitch she saw in the second inning over the fence in left for a grand slam that gave BVU an early 4-2 lead.  Miller hit a two-run home run in the third that gave BVU the lead back at 6-5, launched a solo shot to dead center in the fourth and another solo blast in the sixth.  She finished the game 3-for-5 with the three home runs, four RBI and three runs scored.

Wells also finished 3-for-5 and chalked up five RBI and three runs scored while Pohlmann also registered three hits and five RBI.  Carlee Guyett and Rylee Cain each chipped in with three hits and two runs scored apiece as BVU went on to record 18 hits in the contest that took nearly three hours to complete.

Not only did Miller get the job done at the plate, she labored throughout the game and went the distance inside the circle to earn her 10th win of the year.

Game two was more of a pitcher's duel that came down to the wire.  BVU scratched across a run in the first when Wells stole home and that's how things stood until Central took a 2-1 lead in the fourth.  BVU, however, came right back to tie things up when Nattie Murillo sent the first pitch of the bottom half over the fence in left.  Guyett came through with a big two-run single to left in the fifth for the game's final runs.

Peyton Gross allowed just one base runner over the final two innings to earn the win.  She scattered four hits in the contest, struck out six and walked only three.  Both runs that scored for the Dutch were unearned.

Six different players notched one hit in the contest for Buena Vista which picks up its first doubleheader sweep during conference play after it had split its first five.  The team is now 23-11 on the year (7-5 A-R-C).  The win total is the program's highest since chalking up 27 victories back in 1998.

The team is off until next Tuesday, April 26, when it travels to Nebraska Wesleyan for a doubleheader starting at 4:00 p.m.