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BETHANY, Okla. — After spending the first week on the road, Southern Nazarene finally got to showcase its talents in front of the home crowd with a double-header sweep over Bethany (Kan.).

The Crimson Storm (4-2) had all nine starters in the lineup, record a hit in a 9-4 win in the opener and then got a one-hit shutout from Kaci Crawford in an 8-0 victory in the nightcap.

SNU as a team went 12-for-32 in the opener (.375) at the plate as Katie Hale and Kacey Acker each went 2-for-4. Hale drove in a pair of runs and scored two as well while Acker also drove in a run.

The Storm scored their first run on a single to left, but the Swedes (0-2) answered with one in the third to tie it at 1-1. SNU broke the game open with two runs in the bottom of the third and fourth innings. Hale made it 2-1 with a double to right center before she scored on a Bethany error. SNU went up 7-1 in the fourth when both Kristina Forest and Daphne Stewart scored on two straight fielder's choices and then Turner scored on a Swede error before Madden drove home Hale for the final run of the inning with a sacrifice fly to center.

Bethany responded with three in the top of the fifth to make it 7-4, but the Storm put it away in the sixth as Aubrey Jones ripped an RBI double before she scored on an Acker single down the left field line.

Jordan Simmons (2-1) picked up the win going the complete seven innings. She allowed four runs, three earned, on nine hits and struck out five.

The Crawford twins gave the Bethany offense headaches as the battery of Kaci and Kara Crawford allowed just three base runners total with one hit and a pair of walks in the nightcap. Kaci (2-1) struck out one each in the first four innings before setting down the side in the fifth to total seven strikeouts on the day.

SNU was just as dangerous at the plate, scoring a run in nearly every inning. The Storm scored two in the first off an Aubrey Jones sacrifice squeeze and then an Amy Madden single to right center. SNU took a 5-0 lead in the second after Forest drove home Keli Billups with a single and Forest scored on Stewart's double to right center. Stewart scored the final run of the inning when Turner enticed a throw down to second on a delayed steal, and intentional run down, and was chased back to first and a ensuing throw was too late to catch Stewart racing from third.

Acker hit her first career home run at SNU when drove a pitch the opposite way to make it 7-0 SNU in the third before Billups ended the game in the fifth with a double to left center, scoring Madden to pick up the run rule.

The Crimson Storm now host Kansas Wesleyan, Saturday, for a 1 p.m. doubleheader.