CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Parkland softball freshman third baseman Camryn Skundberg hit three home runs, totaling eight runs batted in, to lead the Cobras to a Sunday sweep of No. 11 Heartland, 7-5 and 10-9. Taking the season series (3-1) over the ranked Hawks, the Cobras are 29-17 overall and lead the M-WAC with a 13-5 conference mark.

Entering the day with four home runs and 27 RBI on the season, Skundberg nearly doubled her season home run total while increasing her RBI output by 30%. Homering for the first time since April 3, Skundberg recorded her second multi-homer game of the season with a two-run homer and three-run shot in game two. Overall, the Mt. Zion, Ill., native went 4-for-6 with a walk.

In game one, Skundberg hit first homer of the day in the third inning to give Parkland a 3-1 lead, and then the Cobras added four insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth in a 7-5 win. 2-for-3 for the game, Skundberg was one of two Cobras to record multiple hits, as starting pitcher Tori Witruk helped her own cause with two hits and an RBI double to back seven innings of work on the mound with six strikeouts to improve to 11-3 in the circle this season.

In game two, the Cobras hit three home runs with Summer Johnson's two-run jack joining Skundberg's two-run and three-run homers. Leading 10-3 through four innings, Heartland battled back to within a run, but the Corbas took advantaged of bad Hawks base running to hold on for the Sunday sweep.

Up next, the Cobras close out the regular season at home next week beginning with a Friday doubleheader at 3 p.m. against John Wood.

Game 1: Parkland 7, No. 11 Heartland 5

Heartland used a leadoff triple to score two batters into the game, and maintained the 1-0 lead into the bottom of the third. After allowing the triple in the first, starting pitcher Tori Witruk sat down six straight and nine of 10.

The bottom of the order got the rally started in the third inning, Witruk leading off with a single and then moving to second base when Lauren Wendling drew a walk. Kate Beckemeyer moved the two runners over to second and third with a sacrifice bunt. After Bri Poehler wore down the Hawks' pitcher with an eight-pitch at-bat, Camryn Skundberg smacked her fifth home run of the season to straight-away center to plate three runs.

Witruk would make Skundberg's shot hold up through three more frames, allowing just one hit and an unearned run, as the Cobras led 3-2 entering the bottom of the sixth. In their half of the sixth, the Cobras added four insurance runs to take a 7-2 lead. Skundberg and Emma Newton started the inning with back-to-back singles and then came around to score on a one-out Summer Johnson single after Bella Coffey sacrificed them into scoring position. The bottom of the order, again, came through in the clutch with two-out RBI hits, Witruk hitting a double and Wendling a single.

The two hits by Witruk and Wednling proved vital, as Heartland used five hits in the seventh to put the tying run on second base with two outs. But, Witruk worked out of the jam and closed out the win with a lineout to shortstop Kirbie Mendenhall.

Game 2: Parkland 10, No. 11 Heartland 9

The Cobra bats stayed hot to start game two, answering two tallies by the Hawks with three of their own in the bottom half. Starting with a Beckemeyer single, Skundberg leveled the score with her second homer of the game. Following the two-run shot to left field, Newton kept the line moving with a single and then came around to score on an RBI double by Summer Johnson to give Parkland a 3-2 lead.

Heartland tied the game, 3-3, on a two-out single in the top of the second inning, but a four-run bottom of the third put the Cobras back in front. Capped by a two-run homer from Summer Johnson, her seventh of the season, Parkland scored their first two runs when Heartland mishandled a sacrifice bunt by Bella Coffey that allowed Skundberg and Newton to score.

The power surge continued in the fourth, as Skundberg uncorked her third bomb of the day and second on the day. Her second three-run shot, Skundberg drove in Wendling and Beckemeyer with one out in the inning, sending the pitch over the left-field fence.

After scoring a single run in the fifth, the Hawks battled back to within one run in the top of the sixth, scoring five times. The bases loaded with only one out, Heartland hit a double into the gap in right-center, but the Cobras were able to gun down a pair of Hawks between third and home with six different throws. Recording the first out at the plate on the runner trying to score from second base, the Cobras threw down to second as the batter tried to take second on the throw home and then threw back home to nab a runner from third trying to score on the throw to second.

Leading 10-9 going to the seventh, Beckemeyer closed out the one-run victory with two groundouts and a game-ending caught stealing from catcher Mackenzie Ruppert to Skundberg at third base.