TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Washburn Ichabods swept a non-conference doubleheader on Monday at the Washburn Softball Complex topping Upper Iowa 4-0 and 9-1 in six innings. The Ichabods will return to the field on Friday at home against Emporia State in the first of four games against the Hornets over the weekend.

Game 1 - Washburn 4, Upper Iowa 0
Jordan Erickson hit two home runs and Lauren Thimmesch struck out nine pitching a complete game one hit shutout in the 4-0 win in the opener. Erickson's two-run shot in the first scoring Marina Quimby who led off the inning with a single. 
Neither team would score until the bottom of the sixth when Jordan Erickson led off the inning with a solo home run to center field and then Haylee Marsteller singled and then scored on a double by Kristen Bell.
Lauren Thimmesch struck out a career-high nine batters allowing only a second inning single by Riley Kruel as she shutout the Peacocks in the shutout on 111 pitches improving to 8-0 in the circle. In the opener Erickson finished with two hits as did Bell in the win. 

Game 2 - Washburn 9, Upper Iowa 1 (6 innings)
Lauren Thimmesch tied a Washburn and an MIAA record with three home runs in the game while driving in four runs in the 9-1 win. It was the eighth time a member of an MIAA team had hit three home runs in a single game and the first since Washburn's Dani White did so against Northwest Missouri on April 3, 2009.
The Ichabods hit four home runs in the game as Cassidy Merriman hit a grand slam in the fourth inning scoring Taylor Zimmerman, Megan Stegman and Marina Quimby as she finished with 4 RBI in game two joining Thimmesch's 4 RBI in the nightcap. Quimby picked up the win striking out three allowing an unearned run going the distance scatter five hits.