The No. 14 Stanford softball team captured the Stanford Invitational title Sunday, defeating Wichita State, 2-0. The win concluded a weekend in which the Cardinal won all five of its games, moving its record to 10-0 on the season.

Stanford looked dominant all weekend, winning its first four games of the tournament all by mercy rule. For the weekend, the Cardinal outscored its opponents 49-4.

Despite exhibiting overpowering offense throughout much of the weekend, the Cardinal was led by the arm of junior pitcher Missy Penna, who shut out the Shockers on Sunday.

Penna, last week’s USA Softball National Player of the Week, threw her second complete game shutout of the weekend, her fifth of the season, to lead the Cardinal to victory. Penna allowed only three hits and two walks and struck out five.

For the first time in the tournament, the Cardinal offense struggled, managing only two hits off of Wichita State starter Ashly Bright.

Stanford pushed both of its runs across in the bottom of the fourth. After senior leftfielder Tricia Aggabao led off the inning with a walk, junior shortstop Maddy Coon doubled into the gap in left center, scoring Aggabao. Stanford then played small ball to score Coon behind a sacrifice bunt by senior Michelle Smith and a sacrifice fly by freshman Melisa Koutz.

The Cardinal got to the championship game by sweeping doubleheaders on both Friday and Saturday.

Stanford kicked off the tournament with a bang on Friday, defeating Santa Clara 12-2.

After falling behind 2-0 in the first inning on a homer by Bronco catcher Maggie Godfrey, the Cardinal scored 12 straight runs before the game was called after the sixth inning.

With one out in the top of the second, sophomore second baseman Shannon Koplitz got Stanford back into the game with a solo homer, which was the beginning of a three-run rally that put the Cardinal in the lead for good.

Sophomore catcher Rosey Neill also homered for the Cardinal, while Koplitz, Smith and senior Anna Beardman provided three RBI a piece.

In Friday’s second game, Stanford faced Wichita State in the first of two meetings over the weekend. Not facing Bright, whom they struggled with two days later, the Cardinal pounced on the Shocker pitching early and often, defeating the visitors 11-0 in five innings.

The Cardinal scored five runs in the first inning and three more in the second. At one point in the first inning, six straight Cardinal batters reached base.

Stanford exhibited a great deal of patience at the plate, drawing eights walks in just four innings, including two apiece by Coon, Smith and sophomore centerfielder Alissa Haber.

Koutz, the freshman first baseman, paced the Cardinal offense with four RBI, while Coon and Smith scored three runs apiece.

On Saturday, the Cardinal picked up right where it left off Friday, sweeping another doubleheader, with both games decided by the mercy rule.

In its first game Saturday, Stanford jumped all over the University of Pacific, winning 16-2 in five innings.

UOP struck first, scoring two runs in the top of the first inning — the first runs Penna had allowed all season, ending a 30-inning scoreless streak.

The Cardinal didn’t waste any time answering, scoring seven runs — all with two outs — in the bottom of the first. The big blows of the inning came off the bats of Haber and Neill, who each provided two-run doubles. Haber’s double chased UOP starter Alyce Jorgensen out after just two-thirds of an inning.

Neill’s double was just the beginning of a huge day for her. An inning later, she hit a three-run homer to deep leftfield, en route to a three-hit, six-RBI game. Koutz also had three hits and four RBI.

Later that day, the Cardinal defeated Santa Clara a second time, this time by the score of 8-0, to advance to the championship game of the Invitational. Penna and freshman pitcher Ashley Chinn combined for 10 strikeouts on the way to a six-inning shutout.

Stanford scored seven of its runs in the bottom of the sixth.

For the game both Koplitz and Smith provided the Cardinal with two RBI apiece to lead the offense.

After playing five games in three days, the Cardinal have a bit of a break; the team doesn’t return to the diamond until Thursday. Stanford will play Florida Atlantic at 5:30 p.m. in its first game at the Palm Springs Classic.