Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Kearney, Neb. – Colorado Christian junior Genevieve Rayna threw back-to-back complete games to power the Cougars to a sweep of Nebraska-Kearney, 5-4 and 8-5, Monday afternoon at Dryden Park.

This is the second straight weekend the first-year Cougars have won three of four games from an RMAC foe. Having also travelled to Florida and California this year, CCU improves to 11-10 (6-2 RMAC).

A junior college transfer, Rayna (8-4) struck out seven Lopers and allowed just five hits in game one. She then blanked UNK over the final four innings of game two, finishing that contest with five strikeouts, five walks and nine hits.

UNK (4-6, 1-3 RMAC) had three homers in the first game to make things interesting.

After seniors Allie Frost (Valley) and Dani Mowinkel (Scribner) hit back-to-back dingers in the fourth to cut into a 4-0 deficit, sophomore LF Mackinzie Tomlin (Grand Island) led off the bottom of the seventh with her first collegiate homer to make it a 5-3 game.

The Lopers weren't done in the seventh as freshman SS Mallory Noakes (Lincoln SW) and senior 2b Ali Seberger (Lexington) reached via an error and single. While Noakes came home on a sac fly by sophomore catcher Jen Kramer (North Platte), Seberger was stranded at third as Rayna got a strikeout to end the game.

Offensively, Christian saw centerfielder Hannah Rapoport go 3 for 4 with two runs scored and first baseman Jen Irving go 3 for 4 with two RBI's. The Cougars also took advantage of five UNK errors, leading to four unearned runs.

In the night cap, the Lopers appeared to have Rayna on the ropes as they scored single runs in the first and second innings and crossed home plate three times in the third. However, UNK left two runners on in the third and recorded only two hits the rest of the way.

Loper freshman Taryn Trosper (Grand Island) gave up just one run over the first three innings as her teammates made several good defensive plays, including a 4-6-3 double play to end the third.

However, the Cougars got a solo homer from Rayna (2 for 4) in the fourth and then erupted for four in the fifth and two more in the seventh to win by three. The big hits in the CCU fifth were a game tying, two-run homer from Irving (2 for 4) and a go-ahead RBI single by freshman right fielder Alexa Coffing (4 for 4).

Frost, Mowinkel, Seberger and center fielder Austin Wilson (McCook) each recorded two hits to pace the Lopers.

UNK is at Adams State this weekend.