University of Mary third baseman Leslie Benavidez was making good contact with the ball earlier this season.

She just hit it in line with the defense. Benavidez used the long ball to better her productivity on Wednesday afternoon against Jamestown College.

The junior knocked back-to-back shots out of the park on U-Mary's field to lead the Marauders to a 4-2 victory in the first game of a doubleheader.

Jamestown won the nightcap 8-7.

"She was a little more disciplined at the plate,"U-Mary coach Gerice Olson said. "At the beginning, she was one of those people who was crushing the ball. She just couldn't find a hole."

Benavidez's first homer was a solo shot over the left-field fence to give the Marauders a 1-0 lead.

In her next at-bat, in the bottom of the fourth, she crushed a 2-0 pitch over the center field fence. Benavidez's shot plated three runs and padded U-Mary's lead 4-0.

On both shots, Benavidez blasted fastballs down the middle. They were her first homers of the season.

"I wasn't feeling extra special or anything," Benavidez said. "After that they pitched to me a little more to the outside."

Benavidez finished the game 2-for-3 and drove in all of U-Mary's runs.

U-Mary pitcher Hatty Rossow went the distance, throwing 111 pitches, to improve to 6-1 on the season. Rossow fanned 11 and walked three. She gave up just one earned run.

Rossow also threw 1 1-3 innings in the second game.

"She was throwing her drop ball and she was able to keep it down in the wind," Olson said. "With the wind, everybody's pitches were hanging."

The Marauders (15-9) committed four errors in the second game. Just five of Jamestown's (13-7) runs were earned.

""We had a lot of mental errors," Benavidez said. "People just aren't getting the job done. We've been beating ourselves all year."

Jamestown went up 3-2 in the top of the fourth when Kayla Price lined the ball to the right-center field gap for a double that plated Jamie Novakovski and Tammy Shinn.

U-Mary knotted the score in the bottom of the fourth when Maegan Lunn hit a two-run single and Benavidez grounded in a run. Jamestown hung up three runs, two of which were earned, in the top of the sixth to seal the game. Price and Michelle Miller each knocked in a run.

Jamestown collected 12 hits. Price went 2-for-4 with three RBIs. Jody Lantz was 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Shinn hit a solo home run in the third.

U-Mary amassed 15 hits. Dre Brunskill went 3-for-4 with a two-run double and a two-run homer in the sixth. Lunn went 2-for-5 with two RBIs. Maureen Tacke went 3-for-3 and Meghan Ward 3-for-5.

The Marauders have belted 16 home runs in just 24 games, exceeding last year's total. U-Mary hit 11 home runs in 51 games last season.

Justine Rechenmacher threw 5 1-3 innings to notch the victory. U-Mary's Jessica Olson was tagged with the loss in 2 2-3 innings of work.

U-Mary 4, Jamestown 2

Jamestown 000 001 1 2 4 1

U-Mary 010 300 x 4 6 2

Danielle Yunto and Courtney Wong; Hatty Rossow and Dre Brunskill. WRossow (6-1); LYunto. HRU-Mary:Leslie Benavidez (2).

HighlightsJC:None.

U-Mary:Benavidez 2-for-3, 2 HR, 4 RBIs; Rossow 11 strikeouts.

Jamestown 8, U-Mary 7

Jamestown 003 203 0 8 12 2

U-Mary 200 302 0 7 15 4

Justine Rechenmacher, Yunto (6) and Tasha Sralik; Sarah Moder, Jessica Olson (4), Rossow (6) and Brunskill. WRechenmacher; LOlson (4-1); SYunto. HRJC:Tammy Shinn; U-Mary:Brunskill.

HighlightsJC:Jamie Novakovski 2-for-4; Kayla Price 2-for-4, 3 RBIs; Michelle Miller 2-for-4, RBI; Jody Lantz 2-for-4, 2 RBIs.

U-Mary: Meghan Ward 3-for-5; Michelle Meza 2-for-4; Maegan Lunn 2-for-5, 2 RBIs; Brunskill 3-for-4, 4 RBIs; Maureen Tacke 3-for-3.