Erin Brooks did not tell her team that a sweep of Heidelberg on Wednesday would mean a return trip to the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament would be guaranteed.

The way the Blue Streaks dominated the 'berg over the course of two shutouts, Brooks's silence proved golden.

Box Scores:  Game One  /  Game Two

Brittany Danilov (Canfield, OH, Canfield) in the opener and Sam Thompson (Cheektowaga, NY, Maryvale) in the nightcap were nearly unhittable as JCU posted wins of 5-0 and 7-0.

Danilov was locked in a duel with Heidelberg's Dana Thoms over four scoreless innings to start the day. But it would be Danilov -- and her bat -- who broke the deadlock. With one out in the bottom of the fifth inning, Danilov cracked her fifth home run of the season over the fence in left center.

The Blue Streaks would take advantage of faulty Heidelberg defense int he sixth to push across four more runs.

Danilov allowed just three hits and struck out nine in winning her 13th game of the season.

Thompson took the cue from Danilov and thoroughly locked down game two. The senior hurler struck out a career-high 11 batters on "Senior Day" at Bracken Field in which she and teammates Laura Boselovic (Wexford, PA, North Allegheny) and Julie Marlowe (Harmony, PA, Seneca Valley) were honored as the winningest senior class in program history.

Baking up Thompson's four-hit shutout were Marlowe (three hits, two runs), and Erin Riccardi (North Canton, Hoover), Olivia Mathews (Suffield, OH, Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary) and Angela Vistocco (Victor, NY, Victor) who each had two RBI.

The two wins pushed John Carroll's record overall to 23-15 and its league ledger to 10-6. The wins also qualified the Blue Streaks for their third consecutive OAC tournament and their fourth all time.

Heidelberg falls to 22-14 overall and 7-9 in the OAC.