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Game 1 at Southern Indiana (16-9, 6-6 GLVC): 4 Bellarmine (16-16, 8-7 GLVC): 1 -Box Score: HTML | Sortable

Game 2 at Southern Indiana: 2 Bellarmine: 1 -Box Score: HTML | Sortable

EVANSVILLE, Ind.—Sophomore pitcher Brooke Harmening led the University of Southern Indiana softball team to a doubleheader sweep of Great Lakes Valley Conference East Division foe Bellarmine University Saturday afternoon at the USI Softball Field.

Harmening (12-3) had two complete-game victories inside the pitching circle while driving in all of USI's runs as the Screaming Eagles posted a 4-1 win in the first contest and a 2-1 victory in game two.

USI (16-9, 6-6 GLVC) led the bottom of the first inning of game one off with a pair of bunt singles off the bats of junior Teri Newmaster and freshman Janna Green. After a sacrifice bunt by sophomore MacKenzi Dorsam moved the runners to second and third, Harmening stepped to the plate and hit a three-run bomb over the leftfield fence.

Dorsam, who has reached base safely in 15 straight games, hit a one-out double into the left-centerfield gap in the third inning and scored in the next at-bat as Harmening doubled to the centerfield fence.

Bellarmine (16-16, 8-7 GLVC) took advantage of an error to plate a run in the top of the seventh inning, but that is all the Knights could get as Harmening limited them to just three hits and one unearned tally.

Harmening, who had four strikeouts in game one before fanning five Bellarmine batters in the second game, hit a two-out double in the bottom of the first inning of game two to score Dorsam all the way from first base and give USI a 1-0 edge.

USI, which earned its first doubleheader sweep of the conference season, claimed a 2-0 advantage in the fourth inning when Harmening hit a leadoff home run over the rightfield fence.

After throwing 16.1 innings in a doubleheader split Friday, Harmening remained in the circle in game two and once again limited the Knights to just three hits, the last of which was a solo home run off the bat of senior Madi Ratliff in the seventh inning.

Harmening finished the weekend by giving up just one earned run in 30.1 innings of work. She threw 373 pitches, hit three home runs, and drove in nine runs in what amounted to be a 28-hour span.

USI returns to action Tuesday at 1 p.m. when it visits Kentucky Wesleyan College for a GLVC doubleheader in Owensboro, Kentucky. Tuesday's games will be the first official road contests for the Eagles this season.