HICKORY, N.C. - The Lenoir-Rhyne Baseball Team recorded their 1400th program victory and completed their first series sweep of the season over Southern Wesleyan as they took both games of the doubleheader. 

In the opening game of the doubleheader, the Bears attacked the Warriors early and often with eight runs in the first three innings. Following a 10-strikeout performance by Andrew Patrick, the locked-in bullpen once again held the Warriors to a scoreless stretch. And then to cap off the win, the Bears used a five-run seventh inning to secure a 15-1 win. 

During the second time around, for the third time again this weekend wasted no time as they scored eight runs in the first and four in the second to jump out a 12-0 lead. Although his pitch count ran up to 78 pitches in four innings of work, Jackson Reid once again had a dazzling performance on the mound to hold the Warriors to three hits. While the Bears' offense was relatively quiet after the first couple of innings, the combined pitching from the Bears and deficit was too much for the Warriors to overcome in the 16-2 final. 

INSIDE THE MATCHUP 

Final Game One: Lenoir-Rhyne 15, Southern Wesleyan 1  

Final Game Two: Lenoir-Rhyne 16, Southern Wesleyan 2 

Records: Lenoir-Rhyne 10-3, Southern Wesleyan 2-8 

Location: Hickory, N.C. | Durham Field 

STATS OF GAME ONE 

• With the 15-1 victory, Lenoir-Rhyne secured their 1400th program victory. Their program record improved to 1401-1338-7 after the two games. 

• Five different Bears found multiple hits with Blake Bean, Tyler McPeak, Kai Montano, Wade Cuda, and Cole Laskowski each recording two hits of their own. These five players combined for 10 of the 15 hits for the Bears. 

• Patrick recorded highest strikeout performance of the season with 10 punch outs against the Warriors. The redshirt senior had 10 combined strikeouts in his first two starts. 

• After using six pinch hitters on Friday, Coach Ramirez once again emptied the bench with eight pinch hitters in the contest in addition to two pinch runners. 

• Tyler McPeak hit his third home run of the season, which now brings his extra-base hit count to seven, which is the team's best. 

• The combined bullpen of Joey Cobb, Parker Kanupp, Caleb Cockerham, and Cole Bramhall struck out three batters in four innings and allowed only one hit. 

• The only run of the game for Southern Wesleyan came on a passed ball where Chance Fogel scored from third base in the third inning 

STATS OF GAME TWO 

• With the sweep of the doubleheader, the Bears are now 7-1 in doubleheader games, with securing a sweep in each weekend series 

• As a team, Lenoir-Rhyne hit a combined 1.148 OPS, which was significantly better than the Warriors combined OPS of .481 

• Both teams had trouble with limiting their mistakes as each team committed three errors 

• Cuda completed arguably the best day of the season with a four-RBI night which included his first home run of the year 

• Bean connected his second three-run of the weekend; He now holds a team-best six home runs 

• The 16 runs by the Bears were the most that the offense has produced in a single game this season 

• Bean, Mason Maxwell, Cole Stanford, Bryce Stober, Cuda and Zach Evans each scored two runs; The six Bears made up 12 of the 16 total runs 

UP NEXT: Lenoir-Rhyne will travel to Tigerville, S.C. to take on the No. 1 ranked North Greenville Crusaders on Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 3:00 p.m. The next home game for the Bears will be on Friday, Feb. 24, when Lenoir-Rhyne and the Cedarville Yellow Jackets will play a doubleheader at Durham Field starting at 2:00 p.m.