ST. GEORGE, Utah - Marla Reiter (Rolinda, CA/Central High School) smashed two home runs on a day when the No. 5 Dixie State softball team cranked out five dingers en route to 11-2 and 9-0 wins over Colorado Mesa.

The Red Storm (31-6) outscored the Mavericks (18-15) 20-2 in two run-rule shortened games. Michelle Duncan (Gilbert, AZ/Gilbert High School) improved to 17-0 with a win in game one and Aryn Feickert (Lancaster, CA/Highland ) took game two to move to 13-4. Both pitched complete games.

Reiter had the two homers, scored four runs and drove in three more on the afternoon. DSU also got longballs from Nicole Chavez (Chino Hills, CA/Ayala High School), Brooklyn Beardshear (Tucson, AZ/Sahuaro) and Josey Hartman (Mapleton, UT/Maple Mountain).

Janessa Bassett (Stansbury Park, UT/Tooele) was on base all day with a 4 for 4 game in the first contest with a triple, two runs scored and two RBI. She walked in three plate appearances in game two with a stolen base, one run and one RBI.

Game 1 Recap
For the first time in a long time, DSU found itself in an early hole behind 2-0 to CMU in the first. The Red Storm answered quickly with an RBI single from Courtney Hine (San Dimas, CA/San Dimas High School) and a sacrifice fly by Autumn Woodfall (Kaysville, UT/Davis High School) to tie it up at 2-2 at the end of one.

It was all Dixie State from there after a two-run bomb by Reiter in the third and another two-run shot by Chavez in the fourth for a 6-2 lead.

Beardshear singled in Kristie Johnson (Temecula, CA/Chaparral High School) and Woodfall doubled to bring Beardshear around later in the fourth. DSU added three more on base hits by Courtney Sherwin (Mesa, AZ/Red Mountain High School) and Bassett to make it 11-2 heading into the top of the fifth.

Duncan struckout the last batter after giving up just two hits after the first inning to win her 17th game of the season. She went five innings, gave up two earned runs, walked two and struckout two.

Game 2 Recap
A bases loaded walk to Bassett in the second started the scoring for the Red Storm. The next batter, Chavez singled to left and scored Hartman and Mallory Paulson (Fruita, CO/Fruita Monument). Beardshear picked up another RBI with a single through the left side. DSU hung a four-spot in the second to lead it 4-0.

Reiter clubbed another homer in the third, her team-leading seventh of the year, for a 5-0 advantage.

The bombs kept coming for Dixie State as Hartman crushed a no-doubter to left with Paulson on board later in the third. Beardshear added her sixth of the season with Johnson on base to make it 9-0 after four innings.

Feickert ran into a jam in the top half of the fifth with the bases loaded after an infield single. She struck out CMU's last chance at a rally to end it and complete the sweep of the Mavericks. Feickert scattered four hits and walked four with four strikeouts.

Dixie State heads on the road for a California swing now, heading to Cal Baptist on Friday, April 3 for a doubleheader at 6 p.m. MT/5 p.m. PT in Riverside.