Weber State (17-23, 5-1 Big Sky) next hosts Idaho State (24-13, 5-1) in a top-of-table battle for three games from April 11-12. WSU first hosts a nonconference game against Utah Valley on Tuesday.

At 3-3, Sacramento State and Northern Colorado sit in the middle of the pack while Portland State (2-4) and Montana (0-6) are at the bottom of the standings.

WEBER STATE 11, MONTANA 2

Senior third baseman Abby Grundy is now batting .400 for the season after a three-homer series. The first two came to open the set Friday afternoon, breaking open a scoreless game with a two-run shot in the fourth inning and putting Weber in run-rule territory with a three-run homer in the fifth.

Eva Richardson and Jordan McMahon added RBI doubles and the Wildcats went on to a five-inning win.

Cali McCraw got the win in the circle, pitching five complete and allowing zero runs. Freshman RJ Parra entered in the fifth and put two runners on with an error and a single, and McCraw re-entered, giving up unearned runs charged to Parra on a sacrifice fly and a single.

WEBER STATE 6, MONTANA 2

Grundy, Olivia Birkinshaw and Gianna Memoli kept up the homerfest with three towering solo shots in Friday’s second game.

Trailing 2-1, Riley Whalen doubled in Gianna Memoli to tie the game in the fourth and WSU took the lead for good when Olivia Birkinshaw scored on a wild pitch in the fifth.

Grundy homered in the sixth and Memoli left the yard in the seventh to put the game away.

Jayci Finch took the win, throwing the final 5 2/3 innings and allowing one unearned run on four hits, striking out one.

WEBER STATE 4, MONTANA 3

It looked Saturday afternoon like the Wildcats may not finish the sweep and keep pace with Idaho State.

Freshman pitcher Raina Navarro allowed a solo homer to Mackenzie Bekofsky in the third inning and one to Kynzie Mohl to lead off the fifth inning. Olivia Birkinshaw’s solo shot in the fourth notwithstanding (her 10th of the season), Weber State trailed 3-1 through five frames after Cali McCraw took over for Navarro and surrendered an RBI double.

WSU had outhit Montana 6-5 but trailed, needing a rally in the seventh. It came quickly. Riley Whalen led off the inning with a single, Taegan Smith drew a walk and, despite six skying homers before it, Sadie Kirk’s line drive did the trick.

She screamed a liner over the left field fence to put WSU up 4-3. Batting a second-best .380, the freshman Kirk leads WSU with 31 RBIs.

McCraw quickly ended the victory in the bottom of the seventh with a groundout, lineout and flyout.