Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Kearney, Neb. – Junior Cassie Roessing won another game on the mound and knocked in a pair of runs at the plate to help Nebraska-Kearney sweep Hastings College, 8-0 and 4-2, Tuesday night in Hastings.
 
Loper head coach Holly Carnes now has an even 300 wins in her career. The Kearney High and UNK graduate has been head coach since the 2001 season.
 
Tonight's games were also the first time UNK (15-26) and Hastings (24-16) have met in the regular season since the late 1980's.
 
Roessing (Phoenix, Ariz.), coming off a 500-pitch weekend, was at it again as she tossed six shutout innings in game one and belted her team-leading seventh homer.
 
In game one, the Lopers busted things open with a five-run second that featured three hits, a walk, hit batter and Bronco error. Roessing started the scoring with a homer to center
 
Three innings later, Roessing (3 for 4, two runs) smacked an RBI single to right center. She then scored the final run of the night in the seventh on a Hastings throwing error.
 
On the mound, Roessing (13-9) fanned six and didn't walk a batter in throwing 106 pitches. Colorado freshman lefty Morgan Karlberg struck out two in the seventh to record UNK's first shut out of 2015.
 
Hastings recorded 12 hits, and drew three walks, off Colorado freshman Meg Housholder in the second game. However, they stranded 12 runners as Housholder threw five straight shutout innings. She also struck out six in earning her second collegiate win.
 
At the plate, UNK scored four unearned runs in the top of the fourth. Junior outfielders Paige Hamelin (Payson, Ariz.) and Rebecca Wyatt (Glendale, Ariz.) both had two-run singles in an inning kept alive by a Hastings error.
 
The Lopers get the weekend off and then head to Chadron State next Tuesday afternoon