PEORIA, Ill. -- Senior Brittany Mynsberge broke Bradley's career home run record, hitting a pair of dingers as she helped Bradley sweep a non-conference doubleheader from Loyola-Chicago, Wednesday at Laura Bradley Park. The Braves defeated the Ramblers 9-8 in eight innings and 8-4 in the nightcap to improve to 16-29 overall.

Mynsberge was one of many offensive stars for the Braves Wednesday as Bradley collected 29 hits, including six doubles and three home runs, in the sweep of Loyola. She went 4-for-8 with two home runs and six RBI to push her career home run total to 15, passing the previous career mark of 13 she had shared with Julie Jehle and Natalie Quinn. Mynsberge also became just the fourth player in program history to drive in 100 runs, knocking in six runs to improve her career total to 105.

Freshman Trisha Kowalewski went 6-for-7 with three doubles, three runs scored and two RBI to also highlight the Braves stellar day at the plate. Fellow freshman Rebecca Bishop earned the victory in the opener, pitching four innings of scoreless relief to improve to 4-7 on the year. Bishop also picked up the save in the second game, tossing one and one-third innings of scoreless relief for her second save of the year.

The Braves committed errors in both the first and second innings of the opener, helping the Ramblers plate six runs in the first two frames as Loyola took a 6-1 lead in the early going.

Senior Angela Toures hit her first home run of the season to lead off the second inning, cutting the deficit to 6-2. Loyola tacked on two more runs in the fourth inning to extend its lead to 8-2, before Bradley would mount its largest rally of the season. Junior Bethany Till got things started with a two-run double in the fourth inning, and Mynsberge broke the BU career home run record with a two-run blast that cleared the wall in left center field to pull Bradley to within 8-6.

Freshman Molly Bergeson had a two-out single to left field in the sixth inning and Kowalewski doubled her home with a shot to left center to pull Bradley to within one run at 8-7. Junior Joanna Pettit led off the seventh with a double and senior Sarah Mancuso smacked a double to left center to tie the game at 8-8.

Bishop pitched out of a jam in the top of the eighth. With daylight threatening the second game of the doubleheader, Beth Florina was placed at second base to open the inning as the international tie-breaker was used in the extra innings. After a bunt single, fly out and ground out, Katerina Krause was intentionally walked to load the bases. Bishop struck out Allison Scanlin looking to preserve the tie and set the stage for Bradley's largest come from behind victory of the year.

Sophomore Christine Cooney was at second to start the bottom of the eighth for the Braves and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt. Cooney scored when Bergeson hit a ball that rolled between Florina's legs at third base to give Bradley the 9-8 victory. Bradley's 17 hits in the game were the highest total since smacking 20 hits against Jackson State on Feb. 6, 2004.

Loyola plated a run in the first inning of the nightcap to take a 1-0 lead, but Bradley scored six runs on five hits and three Rambler errors in the second to take a 6-1 lead. Mynsberge delivered the big blow in the inning with a bases-loaded single up the middle that scored two runs after Kowalewski drew a bases loaded walk to score the Braves first run of the game. Bradley also scored runs on singles by junior Shayna Bradford and Kimberly Dobill in the frame to take the 6-1 lead.

Mynsberge capped the scoring for the Braves with her second home run of the day, when she ripped a two-run blast to right center for her 15th career home run to give Bradley an 8-1 lead.

Loyola scored three runs in the top of the sixth inning to pull to within 8-4, when Bishop entered the game in relief of Brittany Dehler for the Braves with two outs and the bases loaded. Bishop got Raven Gengler to fly out to end the inning and pitched a scoreless ninth for her second save of the season. Bergeson earned the victory for the Braves in the nightcap, improving to 3-7 on the year.

Bradley returns to action Saturday when the Braves open a three-game Missouri Valley Conference series at 21st-ranked Southern Illinois with a noon doubleheader in Carbondale, Ill.