Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MINOT, N.D. – Minot State University softball continued to stay hot at the plate.

The Beavers slugged out eight home runs in a pair of wins over Dakota College at Bottineau in nonconference NCAA Division II softball Tuesday at South Hill Complex.

Minot State hit four homers – including two by Jen Dixon (So., OF/P, Brandon, Manitoba) to win game 1 9-0 (6) and four different players went yard in game 2 in a 17-4 (5) win in the nightcap.

The games were originally scheduled for junior varsity competition, but Minot State added the games to its varsity schedule to make up for rain outs earlier in the season. The Beavers used a variety of younger players throughout the contests.

Game 1 stayed relatively close as DCB's Amanda Schmidt nearly matched MSU starter Keysha Jensen (Melville, Saskatchewan) early on. MSU scored one in the first and two in the second to lead 3-0 entering the fourth.

Dixon then took over.

She hit a solo home run to lead off the fourth inning and then – after a three-run bomb by Emily Fournier (So., INF, Langley, British Columbia) made it 7-0 – ended the game with a two-run blast in the bottom of the sixth.

Fournier and Dixon each finished with three runs batted in, while Taylor Studler (Fr., UTL, Gross Isle, Manitoba) went 2 for 2 with a solo home run in the third. Betsy Miller (So., INF, Moorhead, Minn.) and Stacy Fournier (So., SS, Langley, British Columbia) also picked up two hits apiece for MSU.

Jansen scattered six hits over six innings while striking out seven for the win.

In game 2, MSU scored runs in bunches, getting three in each of the first two innings, five in the third and six in the fourth.

But the Beavers had to battle back from a four-run deficit after the top of the first as DCB's Jess Mehling and Courtney Hart each drove in two in the inning.

Dixon, Stacy Fournier and Colleen Bertrand (So., C, Langley, British Columbia) all drove in multiple runs and were joined by Jansen who hit home runs. Dixon drove in four and collected two hits and Fournier and Bertrand each drove in three. Katie Backes (So., UTL, Minot, N.D.) added three hits.

The Beavers will face a stiff test in their next double header as MSU puts its 16-game winning streak on the line against longtime rival and future Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference foe University of Mary Wednesday at 1 p.m. at South Hill Complex.