MACOMB, Ill.—South Dakota and Western Illinois combined for 10 home runs and both came away with wins during a doubleheader Saturday at Mary Ellen McKee Stadium. Western Illinois (10-19, 1-1 Summit) won the first game 9-4, and the Coyotes (9-18, 1-1) took the nightcap 15-4. The rubber match takes place Sunday at 11 a.m.
 
South Dakota head coach Robert Wagner moved senior first baseman Kayla Fields into the cleanup spot for the Summit League openers and the move paid off. Fields was on base seven times in eight at bats Saturday. She had six hits, including a home run in each game, and drove in six runs. They were the first collegiate home runs for Fields.
 
Another senior, Rachel Cue, also factored into the Coyotes' success. She overcame Western Illinois' four-run first inning in game two to toss her third complete game of the season. Cue (3-6) allowed no runs and just three hits over the last six innings. She retired nine straight at one point and finished with four strikeouts.
 
Western Illinois led 7-0 after three innings in game one to support pitcher Emily Ira, who entered the weekend with the Summit League's best ERA. Holly Hoelting hit a two-run homer and Taylor Messer added a three-run blast during a five-run third inning for the Leathernecks.
 
Ira (5-10) helped her cause by going 2-for-3 at the dish with a solo home run. She also scattered seven hits and struck out nine against one walk.
 
All four of South Dakota's runs off Ira in the opener came via the long ball. Fields hit a solo shot in the fourth, Christy Warnock's first homer of the season made it 8-2 in the fifth, and Jessica Rogers hit a two-run bomb in the sixth for her first blast of the season.
 
The day's momentum shifted when South Dakota got six runs off Brooke Stulga in the second inning of game two to take its first lead of the day. Camille Fowler, who was 4-for-4 in game two, started the rally with a two-run double and a three-run blast by Fields capped it. The Coyotes added two runs in the third and fifth innings to make it 10-4, and put the cherry on top with five runs in the top of the seventh.
 
South Dakota had 16 hits in game two. In addition to the four from Fowler and three by Fields, the Coyotes got a 3-for-5 effort from third baseman Jamie Holscher, who scored three times, and two hits from shortstop Shelby Keil, the Summit's third-leading hitter.
 
Coyote designated player Emily Winckler extended her hitting streak to seven games with a double in the third inning of game one and another two-bagger in the fifth inning of game two. It is the longest hitting streak of the season by a Coyote.