Story by Nicholas Petrone, Central Methodist Sports Information Director

LAMONI, Iowa - No. 8 Central Methodist (Mo.) used eight home runs, including three by Lauren Geringer, to sweep a doubleheader against Graceland (Iowa) on Tuesday by scores of 13-1 (5) and 6-0 at North Park. The wins clinch a fifth-straight Heart of America Athletic Conference (HAAC) championship for coach Pat Reardon's squad, which improves its school-record win streak to 24.

Central Methodist (35-6, 16-0) has also won 28-straight in league play and 18-straight against Graceland (8-22, 3-9).

Reardon's team wasted little time in game one dismantling the Yellowjackets, as the entire lineup reached base in the first inning and produced eight runs before the first out. After Jessie Wilmes scored the first run on a bases-loaded walk, Bri Boatwright crushed her third career grand slam over the left field fence to make the score 5-0. Alyssa Lillyfollowed in the next at-bat with a solo shot to right center, her first this year. A Lindie Adair RBI single to center preceded a Hannah Blackmon RBI groundout to put the Green and Black up eight.

Geringer led off the second inning with her 13th homer this year which cleared the left field fence to make the score 9-0. Adair and Wilmes scored on Michele Rupard's two-run single up the middle in the third to make the difference 11. Boatwright went deep again to lead off the top of the fourth, her seventh dinger this season.

Graceland broke the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth on a Cheryl Iddings sacrifice fly, but the Eagles tacked on another run in the fifth when Mercedes Marriott's double to deep right center plated Nicki Giovenco.

Boatwright was 3-for-3 with two homers, five runs batted in and two runs scored. Nicole Beck had two hits. Geringer and Rupard each drove in two. Wilmes, Geringer and Boatwright each scored twice. Wilmes becomes only the third player in program history to score 50 or more runs in a season.

Haley Kinnison (17-3) won her 10th-straight decision in the circle tossing a complete game, allowing just one earned run on two hits with five strikeouts and three walks. Her 134 strikeouts this season rank eighth in school history.

Pitcher Amber Takeda (0-5) was tagged with the loss after giving up six earned runs on three hits with three walks and failing to record an out.

The home run parade continued in the first inning of game two when Blackmon (7) and Geringer took Breanna Fortune deep for solo shots to center. The longball was Geringer's 14th of the season, breaking her own single-season school record from 2013.

Lilly scored on an Adair single to center in the fourth to put the Eagles up a field goal.

Geringer (15) touched them all for the 40th time in her career on her second solo blast to center in the affair to start a three-run fifth inning. Beck (9) followed three batters later with a two-run shot to right center with two outs for the final margin. The Eagles have pumped out 52 homers, which is second highest in school history to last season's total of 54.

Boatwright had three hits, while both of Geringer's landed outside the playing area. Geringer and Beck each drove in two. Geringer and Lilly scored two runs apiece.

Jocie Glaze (14-0) remained perfect in the circle after going the distance, tossing a three-hitter with four strikeouts.

Fortune (5-10) took the defeat but pitched a complete game, allowing six earned runs on 10 hits with six strikeouts and two walks.

The Eagles clinched their fifth-straight league title outright before the start of game two with MidAmerica Nazarene's (Kan.) 10-4 defeat of Benedictine (Kan.).

Central Methodist travels to Park (Mo.) for a non-conference doubleheader Friday starting at 3 p.m. CT.