Waukesha, Wis. -- The UW-Whitewater softball team improved to 14-0 with a pair of wins at Carroll University Thursday afternoon. The Warhawks won 8-0 in a six inning game followed by a 10-3 victory in the nightcap. 

Rhiann Dick (Palatine, Ill./Palatine) was perfect through 5 2/3 innings in the opener. The senior lefty tossed an absolute gem sending the first 17 Pioneers back to the dugout in order. Carroll was able to break up the perfect game with a tweener that dropped in no man's land. The next batter also tallied a hit before Dick registered the final out on a fly ball to left field. 

Dick struck out seven while allowing just two hits against 20 batters faced in the six inning shutout. 

Offensively, the Warhawks gave their hurler all she would need in the top of the first. Brooke Mangler (Gurnee, Ill./Warren Township) brought in the first run of the game on an RBI single that plated Kiarra Kostroski (Fort Atkinson, Wis./Fort Atkinson). Two innings later, Auburn Roberson's (South Elgin, Ill./St. Charles North) single to center had Emma Giese (Kenosha, Wis./Indian Trail) scoring from second base for a 2-0 lead. 

UWW doubled up in the fourth as Kostroski doubled in one run and Giese plated another with a single up the middle. The flood gates opened in the top of the sixth. Kaitlyn Weidemann (Gurnee, Ill./Warren Township) drew a walk to lead off the frame. Kostroski and Giese tallied back-to-back base knocks to left to load the bases for Grace Wickman (Wausaukee, Wis./Peshtigo). The powerful righty drove a ball on a line to left that cleared the wall for UWW's first grand slam of the day and the 8-0 Warhawk advantage.

Kostroski paced the offense with a 3-4 game at the plate with 3 runs scored an an RBI. Wickman posted a pair of hits with four RBI from the grand slam while Giese went 2-3 with 2 runs scored and a RBI.

UW-Whitewater carried the momentum over into game two scorign three runs in the top of the first. A passed ball allowed the first Warhawk to cross the plate. Mangler once again had the first RBI of the contest, this time on a single to left field. Keira Jarrett (Evergreen Park, Ill./Mother McAuley) also singled to left to drive in one more and give UWW a quick 3-0 lead. 

The Pioneers plated a single run in the bottom of the inning but Claire Kohnle (Tisch Mills, Wis./Kewaunee) had the responses on a solo shot to center field to push the margin back to three, 4-1. 

Carroll scored twice in the bottom of the second, but the Warhawk bats kept rolling. This time Mangler and Jarrett registered back-to-back singles and Dani Peshia (Newark, Ill./Newark Community) loaded up the bases with a walk. Kohnle capitalized with a towering fly ball that cleared the wall in left field for UWW's second grand slam of the day and Kohnle's second homer of the game. That gave the Warhawks an 8-3 lead. 

The final two runs of the game came in the top of the sixth as Wickman laced a double down the left field line that extended the lead to 10-3. 

Mangler was 3-4 to lead UWW in the batter's box. Kohnle was 2-4 at the plate with 5 RBI. 

Josie Hammen (Combined Locks, Wis./Kimberly) picked up the win in the circle after no hitting the Pioneers through three innings of relief work. The sophomore is now 5-0 on the season.