Lynchburg, Va. -- In its first home series of the year, University of Lynchburg's baseball team brought its brooms out and completed a three-game sweep of York Sunday, defeating the Spartans 11-3 behind a strong pitching performance from sophomore Brandon Pond and a 3-for-3 day at the dish from Brian Sheeder. 

For the second game in a row, the Hornets (7-3) scored more than 10 runs. Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the second, Avery Combs hit a two-run home run to right field to put Lynchburg on top, 2-1. 

In the home half of the fourth, the Hornets tacked on four more runs on four hits as Cameron Lane led off the inning with a hit by pitch, followed by a Combs single. Holden Fiedler singled to load the bases, and then a Sheeder single to right drove home two runs, followed by a Shawn Allen RBI-single, putting Lynchburg up 5-1.

Entering the seventh inning, Lynchburg was up 7-1 and continued to pour it on scoring four more runs on only two hits. Parker Shaffer drove in two runs with a bases loaded single to center; two batters later, Kinston Carson doubled to left to bring home two more and up the Lynchburg lead to 11-1. 

The Spartan bats remained silent until a small rally in the ninth inning saw two runs cross the plate and they would have scored a third on a Ricciardi single to right but Carson came up throwing and threw a strike to Fiedler at home to nail the runner at the plate to end the game.

Pond, Lynchburg's sophomore starter, spun a gem for the Hornets as the right-hander went 5 1/3 innings and allowed only two hits on the afternoon. He did not surrender an earned run. The Chesterfield native struck out seven and walked three to earn the win.

Lynchburg baseball will be back in action on Tuesday, March 3 as the Hornets welcome Averett to town with first pitch set for 2 p.m.

--LYN--