There is a blueprint for how to succeed in softball.

Get runners on base, hit big with runners on and shore up the defense with good pitching.

And the Bruins followed that exact blueprint to a tee against the Badgers.

“The offense is just on a mission. It’s not about even run-ruling or the scoreboard, it’s just quality at-bats,” said coach Kelly Inouye-Perez. “So we’re just grinding on the offense to be able to do it, but we’re on the defensive end trying to do everything we can to be able to stop the opponent from scoring runs.”

No. 7 UCLA softball (20-3, 2-0 Big Ten) won its first Big Ten series of the season with an 8-0 win over Wisconsin (14-9, 0-2) at Easton Stadium on Saturday night. Senior infielder Jordan Woolery and redshirt junior infielder Ramsey Suarez both hammered three-RBI home runs, as the Bruins recorded all eight runs needed for the five-inning run-rule win in the first two innings.

UCLA scored four runs in each of the first two innings.

RBI singles from sophomore infielder Kaniya Bragg and senior utility Megan Grant kicked off the scoring in each inning.

Following those initial runs, Suarez, then Woolery, stepped up to the plate with two runners on base, and both blasted the ball out of the park.

Suarez said she took note of the runners on base but mostly focused on her own details as she stepped up to the plate in the first frame.

“I like to focus on keeping my mind clear and just doing me,” Suarez said. “I really focus on zoning in on the strike zone and what I want to hit, making sure I’m in time and rhythm. I mainly focus on my deep breaths.”

Inouye-Perez said both Bragg and Suarez stepped up on Saturday after not hitting well in the prior game.

Woolery said she made adjustments following her first at-bat, where she reached on a fielder’s choice, allowing her to hit the ball well beyond the fence.

“My first at-bat, I was in a similar situation. I wanted to try and make an adjustment as best as I could,” Woolery said. “Getting more behind the ball and getting it to maybe the left or the right side of the infield was my goal that at-bat, staying through it, staying more behind it that second at-bat.”

After racking up eight runs through the first two innings and chasing the Badgers’ starting pitcher out of the circle, UCLA did not score again.

The Bruins combined for just one hit across the third and fourth innings combined, compared to six in the first two.

“They held themselves accountable to the fact that we let the pitching change kind of slow things down a little bit, and it was more about us than it was the pitcher,” Inouye-Perez said. “Credit to her, but we weren’t as dialed in as we normally are to be able to really get the next pitcher.”

The early lead set up senior pitcher Taylor Tinsley to pitch freely.

Tinsley recorded five strikeouts through 20 batters faced, while allowing just two hits, below Tinsley’s season average of just over one hit allowed per inning.

“It allows her to pitch freely,” Inouye-Perez said. “It allows for her to be able to work on her rise, her drop, her change. She was working different sequences tonight. Really threw a lot more of her drop ball tonight.”

Following just a 1-hour, 36-minute game, the Bruins will play an 11 a.m. game on Sunday with a chance to sweep their first conference series of the season.

“I think that was the fastest game we’ve played all year,” Woolery said. “Grateful to get in, get out and get ready for tomorrow’s game.”