SURPRISE, Ariz. – Allison Bayer hit a pair of home runs and the Carroll College softball team moved to 9-4 on the year after picking up a pair of dominant road wins over first-year program Ottawa Arizona.
 
The Saints outscored the Spirit 18-1 over the two games.
 
In game one, the Saints went up 1-0 in the top of the second when Kendall Mooney scored on a groundout to third-base. In the top of the fourth Carroll added another run when Natalie Gaber singled to right to score Allison Williams.
 
The score remained the same until the Saints picked up some insurance in the top of the seventh. The Saints notched six hits for five runs including a two-run home run from Williams over the right field fence to score Bayer.
 
Williams also had a stellar day in the circle, she sat down the lineup in order, including a pair of strikeouts to end the game.
 
Williams gave up five hits and walked one, but didn't allow a single run and struck out nine.
 
Williams, Bayer and Mooney all tallied multiple hits. Williams and Mooney had a pair of RBIs each.
 
In the second game, Brooke Brown got the start in the circle and had her best outing of the season, and she also got plenty of run support from the offense.
 
The Saints started the game with a huge first inning. Jaylin Kenney singled to lead off for Carroll before Anna ApRoberts followed that up with a single of her own. With two on and no outs in the top of the first, Bayer came to the plate and sent her first pitch over the centerfield fence for a three-run home run.
 
Later in the inning, Katie Huisman singled to right center field to score Gaber and Brooke Yarnell and give Carroll a 5-0 lead after the first half of the inning.
 
In the bottom of the first, OUAZ picked up their only run in the two games on a two-out double to score the runner from first, but that is the only offense that Ottawa would conjure in the second game.
 
The Saints added a run in the third when Mooney scored on a groundout from Yarnell.
 
Carroll added another three-run home run from Bayer in the top of the fourth to highlight a four-run inning which put the Saints up 10-1. Carroll added another run on a sac-fly from Courtney Schroeder to score Megan McCormick. Ottawa failed to answer in the bottom of the fifth, and Carroll picked up the 11-1 run-rule win.
 
Bayer was 2-3 on the game, both three-run homers, giving her six RBIs. Mooney was 2-2, and Huisman was 3-3. Yarnell and Huisman tallied a pair of RBIs each.
 
Brown pitched five innings and allowed just one run on two hits. She only recorded two strikeouts but picked up her first win of the year.
 
Carroll is now 9-4 on the year and has won seven of their last eight games.
 
The Saints close out non-conference play Wednesday against Benedictine-Mesa at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.