With the victories, Iowa has now won 13-straight games while improving to 15-5. Sacramento State dropped to 16-9 and has now lost six of its last nine games.

The Hawkeyes combined for 11 runs and 16 hits in the doubleheader while limiting the Hornets to three runs. Hentges, who entered the game without a home run this season and is the Hawkeyes'' No. 9 hitter in the lineup, clubbed a solo home run in the first game and a two-run shot in the second game.

In the opener, Iowa''s Lisa Birocci (8-4) limited the Hornets to just one run and three hits in seven innings. The Hornets picked up their lone run of the contest on a wild pitch scoring Whitnie Darvell with two outs in the seventh. The game remained scoreless through four innings before Iowa scored a run in the fifth, two more in the sixth and one more in the seventh. Elisha Huse''s RBI-single got Iowa on the board in the fourth before a Stacy May solo home run and an RBI-double by Jessica Bashor accounted for the two runs in the sixth.

Sacramento State''s Nicole Deatherage (7-4) picked up the loss, allowing four runs (three earned) and seven hits in seven innings of work. Darvell, Deatherage and Lesley Mayhorn were the only Hornets to pick up a hit in the contest.

In the nightcap, Iowa tallied seven runs and nine hits off the Hornet pitchers Brianne Ferguson and Gina Steenburgen. Hentges, Kristin Johnson and Christina Schmaltz each recorded two hits as Iowa scored in the first, fifth, sixth and seventh innings. The Hornets pounded out 11 hits, but could muster just two runs while leaving nine runners on base. Sacramento State left at least one runner on base in all but three innings, including the bases laded in the first.

Iowa took advantage of three Hornet errors in the contest as three of the team''s seven runs were unearned. The Hawkeyes jumped out on top in the first inning on an RBI-double by May and a bases-loaded walk to Kylie Murray. The Hornets closed the gap to within one run (2-1) in the bottom of the first on an RBI-single from Deatherage.

The Hawkeyes responded with a run in the fifth and three more in the sixth, highlighted by Hentges'' two-run homer. Both of Hentges'' homers were hit to the opposite field. The Hornets scored their final run of the game in the sixth on an Amber Dragomir RBI-single.

Ali Arnold (6-1) picked up the win in relief, allowing one run and seven hits in six innings. Iowa starter Sarah Thomson lasted just one inning after the Hornets touched her up for one run and four hits in the first. Ferguson (6-4) got the loss for Sacramento State, allowing three runs (two earned) and five hits in five innings. Amy Walter (3-for-4), Jillian Bivert (2-for-4), Erin Coyne (2-for-2) and Deathearage (2-for-4) each had multiple-hit games for the Hornets.

Sacramento State combined to commit six errors in the doubleheader and has now recorded at least one error in seven-consecutive games and nine of the last 10 overall.

The Hornets return to action this week for the Capital Classic, which runs from Thursday-Sunday, March 20-23, at the Sacramento Softball Complex. The team is scheduled to take on Morehead State (Thursday at 7:30 p.m.), fifth-ranked Washington (Friday at 12:30 p.m.), Utah (Saturday at 10 a.m.), Illinois (Saturday at 12:30 p.m.), Long Island (Sunday at 9 a.m.) and Utah State (Sunday at 11 a.m.).