LOUISVILLE, Ky. --- The Bellarmine University softball team stretched their Great Lakes Valley Conference best win streak to ten games on Wednesday as they swept the visiting Kentucky State Thorobreds winning 5-1 and 8-0.

GAME 1
It was the same old story but a different character to open the game as freshman Erin Sireno sent a ball flying over the left field fence in the first help the Knights jump out to a 2-0 lead.

Kentucky state would draw within one in the top half of the second as Lamara Parker hit a single to the left field gap to score the visitors only run of the day.

In the bottom of the third, Bellarmine showed great discipline with runners on second and third and one out as they drew four straight walks to plate three runs, taking a 5-1 lead.

That would be all the runs they would need as Coach Rene Hicks got a lights out pitching performance from freshman Kaitlin Flak as she went the full seven innings giving up only one earned run and striking out a career high nine batters to pick up the win.

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GAME 2
In the finale, Bellarmine used a four run second inning to jump out as Kaitlyn Morley, Stephanie Albertson, Angel Zimmerman, and Sireno all picked up RBI's.

Bellarmine put up two more runs in the fourth as Casey Cleary scored on an wild throw followed by a double by Megan Murdoch that brought home first basemen Abby Lenhart.

Hicks sent out her ace to the mound as Casey Willard went a shortened 5.0 innings allowing only two hits and striking out six to notch her 13th win of the season.

The Knights scored twice in the bottom of the fifth to end the game.

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Bellarmine will return to action on Saturday as they host Indianapolis for a doubleheader at noon.