HAYS, Kan. – The Washburn Ichabod softball put in extra work in each game of a doubleheader sweep against Fort Hays State winning game one 4-3 in 10 innings before winning the nightcap 7-6 in eight innings. The wins moved the Ichabods to 31-8 overall and 15-1 in the MIAA.  Washburn will be back in action on Tuesday hosting Northeastern State at 12 p.m. at the Washburn Softball Complex. The Ichabods went over the 30-win mark for the first time since the 2007 season in the pair of wins.
 
Game 1 – Washburn 4, Fort Hays State 3, 10 innings
The Ichabods recorded a season-high 18 hits en route to a 4-3, extra inning win over the Tigers. Washburn scored the go-ahead run in the top of the 10^th after Maddie Anderson led off the inning with a single then moved to second on a sac bunt and would score on an error by the Tigers giving the Ichabods the 4-3 lead. In the bottom of the 10^th, Lexi Crabtree allowed a single, but recorded outs on the next two batters to record the win.

Washburn started the scoring with two runs in the top of the first on RBI by Savannah Moore and Alyssa Carney. Washburn added another run in the top of the third on another RBI by Carney scoring Brianna Francis who tripled.

Neither team would score until the Tigers got on the board with a solo run in the bottom of the fifth and then they would tie the score in the bottom of the seventh scoring a pair of runs sending the game to extra innings.

Of the season-high 18 hits for Washburn, Stallbaumer and Anderson each had four for the Ichabods and Emilee Baker had three. Carney led the Ichabods with 2 RBI.

In the circle, Crabtree picked up what would be the first of her two wins on the afternoon tossing 3 1/3 innings allowing two hits. She came in the game relieving starter Megan Deiter who followed her 14-strikeout appearance a day before with 10 against the Tigers scattering five this in the no decision.
 
Game 2 – Washburn 7, Fort Hays State 6, 8 innings
For the second game in a row, the Ichabods jumped out to the early lead scoring three runs in the top of the first after an RBI single by Maddie Anderson, a sac fly by Savannah Moore and an RBI double by Alyssa Carney putting the Ichabods out to a 3-0 lead.

Washburn added a solo run in the top of the fourth on a lead-off home run by Taylor Kirk and then the Ichabods added two more in the fifth with a sac fly from Carney and a two-out RBI double by Maddie Anderson as Washburn would be up 6-0.

After the Tigers came back and cut the lead to one after scoring five in the bottom of the fifth. The Tigers scored the tying run in the sixth and tried to go up one, but Stallbaumer threw out a Tiger runner at home.

The Ichabods and the Tigers both came up scoreless in the seventh innings, but in the eighth Taylor Kirk hit her second home run of the game putting the Ichabods up 7-6.

In the bottom of the seventh, the Tigers had a pair of singles putting runners on first and second, but Lexi Crabtree struck out the next two batters including the last one looking to seal the win for Washburn as the Ichabods won their 14^th-straight MIAA game.

Crabtree earned her second win of the afternoon pitching 3 1/3 innings allowing one earned run.

Kirk had three hits to lead the Ichabods as Carney, Anderson and Kirk each drove in two.