BETHANY, Okla. — For the first time since joining the Great American Conference in 2013, Southern Nazarene completed a four-game sweep in the GAC after taking both games of a Saturday doubleheader from Northwestern Oklahoma State.
 
The Crimson Storm (15-19, 8-16) downed the Rangers (5-27, 3-19 GAC) 9-1 in six innings before completing the sweep with an 8-4 win the final game. The win pushes SNU's win streak to five straight. 
 
Kayla Wyatt (9-6) crossed another milestone, as the senior became just the second pitcher in school history to record 600 career strikeouts. She gave up just one run on five hits and struck out 10 in six innings of work.
 
The Crimson Storm got out of the gates quick with three runs in the top of the first. The first run came in on a Kyndall Freer-Christopher sacrifice squeeze that scored Sam Smith. The next two were pushed across on back-to-back singles up the middle by Katelyn Brown and Hope Martin.
 
SNU tacked on three more in the bottom of the second to take a 6-0 lead. The first run came on single by Smith to centerfield before Sydni Toilolo blasted her eighth home run of the year with a two-run shot to left. The Storm pushed it to 7-0 on single to right center by Jessica Thompson in the third.
 
The Rangers finally got on the board in the top of the fifth with a run, but SNU answered in the bottom half of the inning on a Thompson ground out to lead 8-1. The Storm put the game away in the sixth when Logan Sundbye scored from third on a wild pitch to invoke the run rule.
 
Four Storm had multiple hits as Martin led the way as she went 3-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Smith went 2-for-2 with an RBI and a run scored while Toilolo and Thompson each went 2-for-3 with two RBIs. Toilolo also scored a pair of runs.
 
Smith finished the day a perfect 4-for-4 after she went 2-for-2 in the nightcap with three RBIs. Hannah LeBeau also went 2-for-2 with an RBI and a run scored. Katelyn Brown (5-8) picked up the win after allowing three runs, two earned, on five hits. She struck out five in four inning of work.
 
NWOSU took the first lead of the game with a leadoff home run in the top of the second. SNU though answered in the bottom half of the inning with a two-run double by Thompson to take a 2-1 lead. The Rangers tied it in the top of the third and then took a 3-2 lead in the fourth before a three-run shot to right field by Smith gave SNU a 5-3 lead. It was Smith's eighth home run of the year.
 
SNU pushed it to 6-3 in the fifth on a single through the left side by Reiana Reeves before she scored on a LeBeau single to left make it 7-3. The Rangers cut it to 7-4 in the top of the sixth, but SNU answered in the bottom half on a single through the left side by Toilolo to push it to 8-4.