MORRIS, Minn. – The University of Minnesota Morris softball team set a single-season program record on Sunday, notching their 21st and 22nd wins of the season in a doubleheader and series sweep of the University of Wisconsin-Superior. The Cougars took the two contests from the Yellowjackets by scores of 2-0 and 8-3, improving to 22-9 (9-0 UMAC) on the season and pushing the team's winning streak to 16 games.

Next up for the Cougars on their home stand is a three-game set with the University of Northwestern on Tuesday and Wednesday. The series begins with a single game on Tuesday at 4 p.m. from the Morris Softball Complex.

Game 1: Minnesota Morris 2, UW-Superior 0
Skyla Bristol (10-1) set the tone for the day with a complete game four-hitter of the Yellowjackets, striking out 12 in the process.

The Cougars have been racking up runs right from the start recently and that script continued in the bottom of the first when Sierra Stevens singled, moved up two stations on a sac bunt and a groundout, and then scored on a Mary Landherr single with two down in the inning.

The first nine UW-Superior outs were recorded via strikeouts from Bristol and the first-year pitcher had little trouble until the top of the fourth when the Yellowjackets had two on and just one out. Bristol escaped the jam by notching two more strikeouts to end the threat and Minnesota Morris put an insurance run on the board in the bottom of the fifth when Alice Wilkinson drove in Anna Baumann for a 2-0 lead.

Bristol again stranded two runners in the sixth inning and then sat the Yellowjackets down in order in the seventh to wrap up the victory.

Game 2: Minnesota Morris 8, UW-Superior 3
Minnesota Morris again put pressure on UW-Superior with some early runs before piling on in the late stages of the contest to complete the three-game sweep. Alyssa Thornton (10-3) went the distance and struck out six in the game.

Thornton helped her cause in the first inning by driving in Stevens with two down for a quick 1-0 advantage. Stevens then scored again in the third after reaching on an error from the left fielder and coming home on a Landherr single for a 2-0 lead.

The score remained 2-0 until the bottom of the fifth when Minnesota Morris kicked it into another gear. Stevens started things off with a one-out double and she scored her third run of the contest on a fielder's choice grounder from Landherr in which she beat the throw home to make it 3-0. Thornton then brought Wilkinson and Landherr home for a 5-0 edge heading into the sixth.

The first real trouble that Thornton experienced all game came in the sixth inning when two Cougar errors helped UW-Superior score twice and shrink the gap back to three runs. Thornton got the first out of the inning on a sacrifice fly and then induced back-to-back groundouts to end the side.

Minnesota Morris took care of things in the bottom half, starting with a lead-off double from Tori Nichols. With pinch-runner Malena Mahoney and Olivia Losee on base, Anna Athey doubled home both runners to make it 7-2. Athey then moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on a bunt single from Stevens to increase the margin to 8-2. UW-Superior answered back with one run in the seventh but it wasn't nearly enough to pull off the comeback.

Stevens, Wilkinson, and Thornton all had two hits, with Thornton driving in three runs on the afternoon and Landherr and Athey each adding two RBIs.