KENNEDY TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- University of Rio Grande (Ohio), which is receiving votes toward the NAIA Top 25 national rankings, upended Point Park University in a River States Conference softball doubleheader on Sunday from Fairhaven Park. The RedStorm made the key plays in the circle and the batters box to win, 11-1 and 9-0.

Rio Grande is now 26-10 overall and 11-1 RSC to lead the conference. Point Park is 9-13, 2-6 RSC. Here are the recaps of each of the games.

RIO GRANDE 11, POINT PARK 1
The RedStorm had some key hits in the top of the first for a 4-0 lead. Point Park got one of those runs back in the bottom half and had a couple of runners in scoring position trailing 5-1 in the second. The Pioneers were not able to come up with the big hit in that situation, and the same was true for a similar instance down 7-1 with two on and two out in the fifth.

Rio Grande, on the other hand, made good on its opportunities for runs throughout and eventually stretched things out of reach. The RedStorm tacked on late runs with Zoe Doll leading the way going 3 for 5 with a double and three RBIs. Lexi Carnahan did damage lower in the order with a 2-for-2 performance with two doubles, two runs, three RBIs and two walks.

Point Park had seven hits from six different players with Jodi Frontino getting a single and a double to lead the effort. Angalee Beall went the distance in the pitching circle and also had the Pioneers' lone RBI in the game.

Rio Grande's Sydney Campolo went a complete game for the win. She struck out four, walked one and got a lot of big outs to strand runners multiple times throughout the game.

RIO GRANDE 9, POINT PARK 0
RedStorm pitcher Raelynn Hastings kept Point Park's bats quiet in the nightcap, and she had the support of the offense as Rio Grande took the sweep. The visitors took a 4-0 lead in the top of the first, and then Hastings went to work.

She held Point Park to three singles and just five base runners in a complete game. She struck out five and did not walk a batter. Point Park's Jada Simon -- who also pitched all 7.0 innings for the Pioneers -- had two of the three hits, including a double.

Simon's double was the only time the Pioneers were able to get a runner past first as Hastings had a dominant game.

Rio Grande had some big hits in its four-run first inning. The middle of the order came up big with Taylor Webb, Zoe Doll and Kenzie Creemens all driving in runs.

But Simon settled in and retired 11 of 12 batters from the second to fifth innings. She set down eight in a row at one point.

It was a sacrifice fly in the fifth and an unearned run in the sixth -- the second unearned run of the game -- that stretched the score out to 6-0. But as the game wore on, Rio Grande added runs late, including Doll's two-run homer in the seventh.

UP NEXT:
Point Park gets back into action on Tueday, April 5 versus Penn State-New Kensington for a non-conference doubleheader. Game time is moved up one hour from originally planned to 2:00 p.m. at Fairhaven Park.