Junior Tera Burr became UW-Platteville's all-time softball home run leader while leading the Pioneers to 12-3 and 11-7 victories at UW-Stout Sunday.
Burr homered in each game, giving her 20 in her three-year career and topping the 19 Wendi Siedschlag cracked in 2002-05.
The Shawano native went 5-5 in the the first game, including hitting a home run to start the day. She is the first Pioneer ever to record five hits on one game.
Lindsay Weigand also homered in the opener, and she, Bridgette Clark, and Becky Swanson added two hits to the 14-hit attack. Maggie Medlicott went the distance on the mound, yielding just five hits while striking out eight.
The Pioneers scored four times in the eighth inning to win the nightcap. Burr's three-run home run, her record-breaker, gave the Pioneers a 7-5 lead in the top of the seventh. The Blue Devils' Nellie Peterson tied the game in the bottom of the frame with her own two-run home run.
In the eighth, Samantha Neiemann hit an RBI double, giving the Pioneers an 8-7 lead. Whitney Foltz added a run-scoring single, and Clark followed with a two-run triple.
Medlicott earned the win in relief of Brittani Clauss, who pitched in the sixth. Katie Sutter finished up with a scoreless bottom of the eighth.
Both Mandy Cerqua and Dru Schneider hit their first home runs of the season for the Pioneers, who again had 14 hits.
The Pioneers (12-18 overall and 6-7 in the WIAC) play at UW-River Falls Monday. The Blue Devils (7-24, 0-14) play host to UW-La Crosse.
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