MANKATO, Minn. - The Bethany Lutheran softball team Tuesday night hosted North Central for a pair of UMAC contests and defeated the Rams by scores of 10-1 and 20-0. With the wins the Vikings move to 23-10 overall and 11-1 in the conference while the Rams fall to 3-30 overall and 0-15 in UMAC play. 

Bethany 10 - 1 North Central

NCU opened the scoring in game one with a solo home run to center field in the first inning but that would turn out to be their last run of the day.

The Vikings got a pair of runs back in the bottom half off of RBI at-bats from Emily Doyle and Kaija Mork to score Katelyn Halbach and Sydney Jacobs, before the latter two players each recorded RBI's in the second to push the Bethany lead to 5-1. 

A throwing error in the third from NCU would allow two more Bethany runs to score before Jade Krenik would knock a hit to score another and make it 8-1 after three innings.

Kaija Mork would then put the exclamation mark on the game, with a towering two-run shot to left field to make it 10-1 which the Vikings would hold onto in the top of the fifth to claim the win via the eight-run rule. 

Emily Meyer got the win in the circle, striking out nine batters and allowing just two hits in the win.

Krenik and Halbach led the 10-hit effort for Bethany with two hits apiece, while Mork drove in three. 

Bethany 20 - 0 North Central

The Vikings didn't leave anything up to chance in game two, as they would put forth a massive 12 run first inning to take command of the game early. They had nine hits in the inning with Jacobs and Mork highlighting the inning with two RBI-producing hits apiece. 

Bethany would produce five more runs in the second, with Jacobs, Aliya Kehler, Elizabeth Cizek, and Jordan Green all producing run scoring at-bats. 

Kayla Senne, who got a hit in the bottom of the second, continued to stifle the Ram hitters on the mound in the top of the third, putting NCU down in order to preserve the shutout. 

The next two half innings would play scoreless before the Vikings tacked a few more on in the fourth. After Senne was hit by a pitch Cizek would blast her first career home run to make it 19-0, before Rylee Pelant would get an RBI base hit later in the inning to bring the score to 20-0 which would hold for the final. 

Senne struck out nine and allowed just one hit in the contest to earn her 12th win of the season.

Six Vikings had multiple hits in the contest, with Jacobs leading the way with three hits, three runs scored, and three RBI. Jacobs also broke the school record for triples in a season in the contest with her seventh of the year. 

Bethany will be back in action on Friday when they travel to Minnesota Morris for a contest beginning at 5:30 p.m.