Several team and individual records were tied or set in Mary Baldwin's season-ending 7-6 USA South baseball victory at Brevard College Sunday.  It's the first time in the team's five varsity seasons that the Fighting Squirrels ended the season with a victory, and it literally went down to the last pitch of the game.  The victory marked the third time in the last four years that MBU posted seven wins in the season, but the first time the Fighting Squirrels won five conference games in a season.  

The game started strong when Jacob Barber sent his sixth home run over the left field fence - a two-run shot - setting the record for most homers in a season.  Two innings later, after Barber tripled and scored on a Kelly Hackley Jr. single, Tyler Smith hit a three-run blast - his fourth homer of the season and team-record eighth career homer - to give the visitors a 6-0 lead.

Brevard, celebrating senior weekend for more than a dozen players, battled back with four runs on three hits and four walks in the fourth inning and another in the fifth to trim MBU's lead to 6-5.  In the top of the eighth, the Fighting Squirrels scored what seemed like an insurance run but what turned out to be the game-winning run on Brannoc Odlum's solo homer just inside the left field foul pole, his first of the season, for a 7-5 advantage.

Meanwhile, after the Fighting Squirrels got a strong start from Nolan Faulkenberry, Lance Gowans came on in relief in the fourth inning and held a two-run lead heading into the bottom of the ninth.  Brevard put together a rally, scoring one run and loading the bases with two out before Cody Hoffer got the final out of the season and his first save by inducing a pop-up to third baseman Grayson Moore and preserving the win for Gowans.

Barber finished with three hits and a walk, two runs scored and the two RBI.  Smith had two hits, a run scored and three RBI while Moore added two of MBU's 12 total hits.