ATHENS, Ohio - Senior Heather Hagen hit a three-run homer to power the Bobcats to a 7-4 victory over Cleveland State in the nightcap of Ohio's doubleheader and complete the sweep Wednesday. The Bobcats rallied from a late two-run deficit to steal a 4-3 win from the Cleveland State in the first game.

Hagen's third-inning blast off the scoreboard in center field gave Ohio a 6-4 lead and pushed Ohio's home run total to 15 for the year - tying a school record for most team home runs in a single season; a feat last accomplished in 1999.

Hagen (Huntington Beach, Calif.) has hit four home runs this year, after having hit just two in the three previous seasons. Hagen didn't pitch in either game Wednesday and is still just seven strikeouts away from becoming Ohio's all-time strikeout leader. Kasey Dowd owns that distinction with 325 K's. She set the record in 2001.

With the sweep, the Bobcats wrapped up their eight-game home stand - their longest on the season - with seven victories and have won 11 of their last 14 games overall. They are 11-3 at Ohio Softball Field this season and 44-20 (.688) since the ballpark opened in 1999.

Sophomore Kristie Howe (Missouri City, Texas) picked up the victory in the opener with six solid innings. Howe (6-3) allowed three runs while striking out five and walking none. Freshman Kerri Harley (Hickory Hills, Ill.) earned her first collegiate victory with four innings of work in the nightcap. Harley (1-1) allowed four runs - one earned - and struck out two.

Senior Val Wood (Naperville, Ill.) finished off the seventh inning for Howe in the first game and pitched the final three innings for Harley in the second to pick up her third and fourth saves of the year. Wood finished third in the nation last season with seven saves.

Cleveland State's Jessica Miller mystified Ohio's offense early on in the first game. The Bobcats scored an unearned run in the third inning thanks to two of the Vikings' five errors and didn't register a hit until Kelli Bankert (Clifton, Va.) singled up the middle with one out in the sixth.

Kim Stinson (Kirkland, Wash.) kept things going for Ohio in the sixth with a single deep in the hole at short and advanced Harley, who was pinch running for Bankert, to third. Georgia Villard (Canton) got the Bobcats on the board with a sacrifice fly to right field and Lyndsay Eirich (Powell) gave Ohio its first lead of the game with a two-run double over the center fielder's head.

The Bobcats rallied from an early 2-0 deficit in the nightcap with three runs in the second inning thanks to RBI-singles by Villard and Sarah Melvin (Loveland) and an error by the catcher.

The Vikings (10-14-1) regained the lead with two runs in the third, but Ohio came right back with three in the bottom of the inning - all coming on Hagen's home run. The Bobcats added another run in the sixth to close out the scoring.

Ohio heads to Dayton Thursday to make up a doubleheader that was rained out on March 26. Then the Bobcats will get back to MAC competition with a doubleheader at Kent State (12-15, 4-5 MAC) on Saturday.