UW-Whitewater held on to first place in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference with an 11-3, 16-2 sweep of UW-Superior in Eau Claire Saturday.  (The games were scheduled for Superior, but with a foreboding weather forecast UW-Eau Claire and the city of Eau Claire graciously allowed the games to be moved.)

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Game one:  a run in the first, then five in the second put UW-W up 6-0 after two.  Leftfielder Lauren Cruz (Des Plaines, IL/Maine West) collected three runs batted in with a double in the second.  Superior halved the margin on a three run home run from junior Becky Crane in the fifth.  Whitewater came right back to score five runs, on just four hits and with the help of two errors in the top of the sixth.  Jessica Stang (Minnetonka, MN/Minnetonka), on in relief of Jessie Harmeyer (Muskego/Muskego), tossed a scoreless sixth to end the game by the eight run deficit rule.  Harmeyer improved to 5-2.

Dianna Frisbie (Juneau/Dodgeland), gave up three hits in game two, and in turn benefited from a season high 16 runs on 17 hits from the Warhawk offense in the game two win.  Frisbie upped her mark to 7-0. 

Whitewater scored one in the first, five in the second, four in the third, two in the fourth and four more in the fifth.  Superior scored single runs in the third and fourth as the game ended early again because of the deficit rule.  UW-W used twenty players in the game, with thirteen contributing hits.  Cruz went 3x3.  UW-W had four doubles and three home runs, including Amy Gahl (Beloit/Parkview)'s fourth, Suzanne Gersich (Wadsworth, IL/Warren)'s fifth, and the firth of the year by Lauren Rankins (Marengo, IL/Marengo).

UW-W, 26-6 overall, is 12-2 in the WIAC.  UW-Superior is 13-29 and 2-10 in league play.

Whitewater will face UW-Eau Claire, 10-2 in WIAC play, in Eau Claire Sunday.  UW-Oshkosh, 10-3 in league play for third place, is the only other team that remains in the hunt for the league title.