ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Bethel University softball team brought back its hot bats from Florida scoring a combined 23 runs against University of Northwestern Tuesday evening in non-conference play. Bethel took game one 12-2 before taking the night cap 11-3 to complete the sweep.

Amanda Gemuenden, Jamie Axelberg and Maddie Fauth all homered in Tuesday's sweep as the Royals improved to 15-1. The current 12-game winning streak is also a program-best passing up an 11-game winning streak which the Royals posted during the 2013 season. Bethel opens up MIAC play on Sunday as they host No. 3 St. Thomas in a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. 

Nine hitter and junior infielder Alexa Hanowski had a big day at the plate going 6-for-7 with five RBIs and three runs. Freshman Kayla Hokanson went 4-for-8 with a pair of doubles and two runs to go along with four RBIs. Senior Maddie Fauth, along with the home run, went 3-for-7 crossing the plate twice.

Freshman Calli Maki remains perfect on the season picking up the win in both contests to move to 7-0. Maki gave up just one run in both contests tossing four innings in the opener and six in the nightcap.

Game 1: Bethel 12, Northwestern 2 (5 innings)
Cassidy Abbott got the scoring rolling with a RBI single driving in Hokanson who led off the second inning with a double to the left-center gap. Two batters later M. Fauth found some green in left to score Abbott before Hanowski drove in a pair with a shot right back at the UNW pitcher. Hokanson capped off the six-run second with a two-out two RBI single to right.

The Bethel offense stayed hot as M. Fauth sent her first home run of the year over the center field wall. Axelberg followed the two-run long ball with a three-run bomb of her own. Axelberg's sixth long ball of the year gave BU an 11-1 lead after three innings of work.

The Royals tacked on one more in the fourth with Hanowski driving in Abbott.

Megan Thurow came in out of the pen to finish out the fifth. The Eagles produced a run off a leadoff walk before Thurow worked out of a bases loaded jam with a strikeout to end it.

Game 2: Bethel 11, Northwestern 3
BU wasted no time getting on the scoreboard. Gemuenden brought in the game's first run with a sacrifice fly to bring in Allie Fauth who led off the game with a double down the left field line.

The second inning was once again the Royals friend as they exploded for five more runs. Showing its two out production, singles by A. Fauth and Mariah Uphoff set up Gemuenden to blast a three-run homer making it 6-0.

Bethel gave up one in the third before zeros filled the scoreboard in the fourth. With a 6-1 lead, Abbott's bat stayed hot with a RBI double before Hanowski drove in her second run of the game pushing the Royal lead to seven.

BU produced some more two out production in the seventh with Axelberg and K. Hokanson driving in a combined three runs. Out of the pen came Ellie Rogers to close things out. The Eagles were able to push a couple of runs across before Rogers induced a lineout to right completing the sweep.