MINOT, N.D. – It was a night of firsts for the Minot State softball team as the Beavers swept a non-conference doubleheader from in-state foe Bismarck State.

Maizy Whitlow and Isabelle Anderson each hit their first collegiate home run, powering Minot State to a 5-4 win in the evening's opener, then a handful of Beavers collected their first collegiate hit in a 9-1 win in 5 innings to wrap up the sweep in the MSU Bubble on Wednesday night.

Minot State (8-2 overall) gets little time to celebrate the pair of wins, though, as the Beavers head to Jamestown for a non-conference doubleheader Thursday at 5 p.m. against the Jimmies.

Wednesday's twinbill started with Minot State playing catch-up, down 2-0 until Whitlow's first collegiate home run changed things with a bang. A 3-run blast to left, the homer put the Beavers in front 3-2 in the bottom of the second inning, and they didn't look back the rest of the night.

Isabelle Anderson then added her first collegiate home run in the bottom of the fourth, pushing Minot State in front 4-2, before an RBI double by Sarah Misner made it 5-2 in the fifth.

Bismarck State (1-11) got a pair of runs back in the top of the seventh, but Calley Olson (1-0) shut down the comeback to earn her first win of the season, striking out 7 in six innings of relief work.

Misner and Isabelle Anderson led the offense as both collected a pair of hits.

In the nightcap, the Beavers never trailed as Minot State's No. 2-hole hitter, Sara Van Wickler, tripled home Micaela Resler for a 1-0 lead. Van Wickler then scored on a Paige Kellogg RBI groundout for a 2-0 Beaver advantage after one inning, and Minot State just kept tacking on the runs from there.

Resler doubled home a pair of runs in the second, and Kellogg added another RBI for a 6-0 lead, Brooke Hyde drove in a run in the third with a sacrifice squeeze bunt, for a 7-0 score, then Isabelle Anderson singled home a run, and Navi Brinkerhoff's RBI base-on-balls ended the game by the 8-run mercy rule in the bottom of the fifth.

Ellington Anderson, McKenna Varner, and Lanae Kimbley each collected their first collegiate hit in the win, while Brinkerhoff's game-ending RBI was her first collegiate run batted in, as well.

Taylor Kruser (2-0) earned the game-two victory, pitching three shutout innings, striking out 2, and allowing just 2 hits.