Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 West Saint Paul, Minn. --- The Minnesota State softball team won its 11th and 12th straight games as it swept Minnesota Crookston by scores of 10-0 in five innings and 5-0 in Northern Sun Intercollegiate Action Monday morning.

With the wins, MSU improves to 22-6 overall and 6-0 in NSIC action, while UMC falls to 2-15 overall with a 0-4 mark on the circuit.
 
MSU began the day with a 10-0 victory in five innings.
 
The Maverick offense started hot as it posted five runs in the first inning of game one as seniors Samantha Holien, Lindsay Erickson, Kelly Wood, Anna Cole and sophomore Laura Milligan all made their way across the dish. Erickson hit a two run shot, her eighth dinger of the season, giving MSU a 5-0 lead after the top half of the first inning.
 
Freshman Coley Ries got off to another hot start in the circle, posting six strikeouts against the first six batters she faced.
 
Cole recorded her second home run of the season, a solo shot in the top of the second inning, pushing MSU's lead to 6-0.
 
Sophomore Tatum Klein continued the Maverick offensive outpouring in the third inning, recording a run off an RBI-single from freshman Dana Mogren giving MSU a 7-0 lead after the top half of the third inning.
 
The Golden Eagles were able to extinguish any hopes of a perfect game from Ries, as UMC posted two hits but were held scoreless in the bottom of the third inning.
 
Sophomore Abby Whritenour notched her first home run of the season and second of her career as the leadoff batter in the top of the fifth inning. The Mavericks added two additional runs as sophomore Emily Bransky and Klein each scored runs giving MSU a 10-0 lead heading into the bottom of the fifth inning.
 
Freshman pitcher Samantha Buhmann took the circle for the final half inning and retired the side, earning MSU its 21st win of the season with a 10-0 game one victory.
 
With the win, Ries improved to 10-2 overall and posted 10+ strikeouts for the third time this season, finishing with 11 strikeouts and surrendered three hits. Cole and Klein paced the Maverick offensive attack in game one as Cole scored two runs on two hits in four at bats, while Klein finished with two runs on three hits in three at bats.
 
In game two of the twinbill, sophomore Karli DesLauries posted the first run of the game with the RBI credited to Holien in the top of the first inning before freshman Ashley Thell added a run in the third inning by way of an RBI-single from sophomore Chelsea Riordan, who later scored an unearned run pushing the MSU lead to 3-0 after the top half of the third inning.
 
Thell scored her second run of the contest in the top of the fifth inning, once again unearned to push the Mavericks' lead to 4-0 heading into the bottom of the fifth inning. Thell recorded an RBI-single in the top of the seventh inning, scoring Wood and pushing the MSU lead to 5-0 heading into the final half inning of play.  
 
Junior pitcher Brittany Lauterbach went all seven innings of game two of the twinbill against the Golden Eagles, registering eight strikeouts and allowing only two hits as she earned the 5-0 win over UMC. With the win, she improved her record to 10-4 on the season.
 
Thell paced the MSU offense in the second game of the day, scoring two runs on two hits with one RBI in three at bats. Riordan finished with one run on one hit with two RBI for the Mavericks.
 
MSU will wait for a break in the weather this week as it looks to get a twinbill against Southwest Minnesota State. The game times and location are still to be determined.