Jessica Kjeldgaard hurled a two-hit shutout in the opener and added a save in the nightcap and Kari Hillenburg provided the offense with three hits and a homer in the latter as Drury swept a Great Lakes Valley Conference softball doubleheader from Quincy by scores of 2-0 and 5-2 Sunday afternoon at Thompson Field.

The Panthers improved to 10-14 overall and 3-7 in the GLVC while Quincy fell to 12-14 and 3-7.

Kjeldgaard moved to 5-6 on the season by striking out three and walking none in going the seven-inning distance in Sunday's opener, and didn't allow a hit until J. Grimes two-out single to right in the fifth. 

She then came on in relief in Sunday's second game to pitch three innings of shutout ball, allowing just three hits while striking out three and walking none to complete 10 innings of shutout mound work on the day for the sophomore left-hander, who now hasn't allowed an earned run in her last 17 innings over three appearances as she's lowered her season ERA to 2.02.

"Jessica threw a great first game ... she hit her spots and kept the hitters off-balance," Drury coach Chantiel Wilson said. "In the second game, she was very successful in relief, getting key strikeouts."

Drury scored a run in the first when Marissa Ross and later scored on a passed ball, and then added its only other run in the third when Carson Forge walked and came around to score on Chantal Oehlrich's double, one of four hits for the Panthers.

In the nightcap, DU jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first when Hillenberg doubled and scored on Forge's two-run homer, her team-leading seventh of the year. The Panthers added single runs in the third and fourth to stake winning pitcher Shelby Weissenbach (5-6) to a 4-0 lead before the Hawks made things interesting with with two in the fifth.

But Kjeldgaard squelched the Quincy threat, and the Panthers pushed the lead to 5-2 in the sixth with an insurance run on Oehlrich's RBI to help preserve the sweep.

Hillenburg finished 3-for-4 with three runs scored, including a solo homer to right in the fourth to pace Drury's 10-hit attack. Forge was 2-for-2 with two runs scored and two RBIs and Weissenbach helped her own cause with an RBI double in the third.

"Our hitters did a great job all week of making adjustements and improvements and they put that approach into action today," Wilson said. "While we didn't have as many runs the first game as we would have liked, we had many quality at-bats, and that's our goal every game.

"We were discplined at the plate and did a much better job attacking good pitches."

Drury returns to GLVC play on Monday, hosting Truman State in a noon doubleheader at Thompson. The game will feature a free, live webcast available at www.drurypanthers.com/watch.