Jordan Rice took over as the University of Minnesota Duluth's all-time home run leader with a pair of blasts in a 10-3 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference road triumph over the University of Minnesota Crookston Tuesday afternoon then she and her Bulldog teammates completed their first league sweep of the year by zapping the Eagles 9-4.

Rice's two homers boosted her career total to 42 -- one more than the previous program record held by  Kierra Jeffers (2010-13). The senior first baseman and Ham Lake, Minn., native, led off the sixth inning with a home run to centerfield and then cleared the left field fence with no one on one inning later to finish 2-for-3. Junior outfielder Ashley Schilling collected three of UMD's 13 hits and drove in three runs while junior Cayli Sadler (14-9) posted her fourth straight win by scattering seven hits and striking out seven. UMD trailed 2-1 after the first inning, but took the lead for good by scoring twice in its next at bats with the big blow coming from freshman shortstop Becky Smith -- a two-run double.

In the rematch, the Bulldogs (26-17 overall; 10-10 in the NSIC), spotted the Golden Eagles (4-35; 0-20) a 3-0 first-inning lead, but clawed their way back with two runs in the third and four more in the fourth. The top three hitters int he UMD lineup -- junior third baseman Sami Schynder (2-for-4), freshman centerfielder Hannah Schmoll (4-for-5) and Smith (2-for-5 with three RBI) combined to go 8-for-14. The Bulldogs pounded out 14 hits (all singles) and sophomore hurler Sam Hartmann gave up just four hit and one earned run in a complete-game victory. She also fanned eight Golde Eagles en route to putting the clamps on a four-game losing skid.

The Bulldogs will remain on the road for a key NSIC twinbill against league-leading Augustana College this Saturday (April 18) and two more bouts with Wayne State University the following day.

Notes: Rice now paces the 2015 Bulldogs in home runs with a 12 (one shy of her career best) ....Schmoll had six hits in 10 at bats Wednesday to boost her season batting average to a team-leading .413 ... Smith's double in the opener gave her 18 on the year. That equals the team single-season mark set by first baseman Gina Zech in 2008 ... The Bulldogs are 11-0 when rolling up six or more runs this season. They have also outscored the opposition 19-8 in the seventh inning.