William Peace completed a three-game sweep of its USA South Conference baseball weekend series against Mary Baldwin Monday with 14-2 and 16-2 victories over the Fighting Squirrels, who are now 4-14 overall, 1-5 in the USA South and on a seven-game slide.

In the opener, MBU gained an early 2-0 lead when Landon Lightner plated a run on a WPU infield error and eventually scored on Blake French's RBI single.  But the host Pacers responded with seven runs on six hits, a walk and a hit batsman.   William Peace added runs in four of the next five innings, finishing with 14 hits, nine walks and two MBU errors while hosing the Fighting Squirrels to just five hits, two walks and one error.

In the nightcap, the Fighting Squirrels again jumped out to a 2-0 first-inning lead on RBI hits by Noah Kessler and Josh Lallo.  But MBU managed just two hits and two walks the rest of the game.  Meanwhile, WPU erased a 2-1 deficit with three runs in the third, four in the fourth, five in the fifth and three in the sixth to put the game away.  The Pacers matched their 14-hit total in the first game and drew 16 walks to supplement the attack.

Lightner and Robertson were the only Fighting Squirrels with two hits in the doubleheader.

Weather permitting, MBU returns to action Wednesday (3/27, 6 p.m.) with a single non-conference clash at Washington & Lee, followed by another USA South Conference weekend series at Methodist Friday (3/29, 4 p.m.) and Saturday (3/30, noon DH)