TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Washburn Ichabod softball team won its 11th and 12th games in a row in a doubleheader sweep over Rockhurst on Wednesday at Gahnstrom Field. The Ichabods (14-6) will be back in action this weekend hosting a pair of former MIAA foes in two doubleheaders with Missouri S&T on Saturday at 11 a.m. and then Truman at 12 p.m.

Game 1 - WU 5, Rockhurst 1
The Ichabods took a 1-0 lead after their first at bat when Marrit Mead walked to lead off the game and then scored on Autymn Schreiner's double to right center staking Washburn to the 1-0 lead. 

The Ichabods added another solo run in the bottom of the third when Paige Robbins led off the frame with a single up the middle and then Mead recorded a bunt double when the Hawks neglected to cover first base. A sac fly by Hadley Kerschen scored Robbins as Washburn went up 2-0.

After the Hawks (3-5) scored their only run in the fifth an an Ichabod miscue, Washburn broke the game open in the sixth with a three-run shot by Jaycee Ginter scoring Kerschen, who walked, and Ashton Friend, who singled.

Ginter moved to 10-1 in the circle tying a career-high with 14 strikeouts allowing one unearned run scattering five hits. 

Game 2 - WU 7, Rockhurst 3
For the second-straight game the Ichabods jumped out to the early lead when Mead led off the Washburn at bat with a single and then stole second and after a groundout moving to third, would come around to score on a Rockhurst wild pitch. Friend hit her seventh home run of the season to left as the Ichabods to a 2-0 lead.

In the second, Ginter hit her second home run of the day and her fifth of the season as Washburn went up 3-0. The Ichabods added one more in the fourth when Mead scored on a ground out by Kerschen and then added three in the fifth inning when Ginter singled and then back-to-back-to-back doubles by Kimi Patterson, Kaylee Wagner and Mead added two more runs to the score to go up 7-0.

The Hawks scored three in the sixth cutting the lead to 7-3 but Ashlie Thissen retired the final four Hawk batters relieving Raegen Hamm who pitched 5 2/3 innings with five strikeouts for the win.

Mead finished with three hits in the nightcap scoring twice and Friend, LaBarge, Ginter, Hailey Neira and Patterson all had two hits in the Washburn 14-hit attack.