OAKLAND CITY, Ind. --- The Tusculum College baseball team swept a doubleheader from host Oakland City University Sunday afternoon at Pinnick Field. The Pioneers (32-18) won the opener 9-3, while four TC pitchers combined on a one-hit shutout in a 6-0 victory in the night-cap.

Tusculum sweeps the three-game weekend series in the first-ever meetings with the Mighty Oaks (13-29).

Tusculum will close out the 2013 campaign on Tuesday when the Pioneers host Shorter University for a 6 p.m. contest at Pioneer Park.

Game 1: Tusculum 9, Oakland City 3
(Box Score)

Tusculum jumped out to an 8-0 lead while senior Adam Sigmon pitched six strong innings in his final collegiate start as the Pioneers prevailed 9-3 in the opener.

Sigmon (6-5) allowed a run on five hits with a walk and four strikeouts in his 32nd career start for the Pioneers, which ties him for fourth all-time in the Tusculum record book. Sunday was also his 16th career victory, cracking Sigmon into the program's top-10 list for pitching wins.

Sigmon retired the first seven OCU batters to start the game. He ran into trouble in the bottom of the third when the Mighty Oaks pieced together three singles to load the bases with one out. But he got out of the jam with a fly out and a fielder's choice to keep Oakland City off the scoreboard.

Meanwhile, Tusculum plated a run in the second, three each in the third and fifth innings and another in the sixth to take an eight-run lead.

In the second inning, senior Matt Henriksen reached on an error, stole second, moved to third on a fly out and scored on a passed ball. In TC's three-run third, Vinny Ferrara drew a one-out walk and scored on senior Cade Stallings' 11th double of the season. Stallings would score on Comerford's double to centerfield. Comerford would also come into score when he stole third and advanced home on a throwing error by the catcher.

TC made it 7-0 in the fifth inning when Comerford doubled and Henriksen followed with a single to put Pioneers on the corners. Trey Drewery crushed a three-run homer to right field for his second round-tripper of the year. Ferrara led off the sixth with a triple and scored on Stallings' sixth sacrifice fly of the year and 13th in his two seasons at Tusculum, tying him for fourth all-time in school history.

Oakland City broke up Sigmon's shutout bid in the sixth inning when Kingsley Alarcon doubled and later scored on Payton Karl's fly out.

TC added another run in the seventh as Taylor Foster walked, moved to third on a Nick Rodriguez double and scored on Andrew Bowerman's pinch-hit sacrifice fly.

The Mighty Oaks plated two unearned runs in the bottom of the seventh off of TC reliever John Clarke via RBI singles by Marc Rogier and Alarcon to make it a 9-3 game. But Clarke got a fly out to end the contest.

Comerford finished the game going 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles, his 18th and 19th of the season, tying him for eighth all-time in TC single-season history.

OCU starter Neal Kunkler suffered the loss, falling to 1-8 on the season.

Game 2: Tusculum 6, Oakland City 0
(Box Score)

Indiana native Blake Burnett (2-0) pitched four shutout innings with five strikeouts in his first collegiate start to pace Tusculum to a 6-0 victory in the second game.

Burnett, Clark Ayers, Billy Sivyer and John-Austin Shepard combined on Tusculum's fourth shutout of the season. Ferrara led the Tusculum offense with his 3-for-3 performance, including four RBI.

Burnett, a senior from Sharpsville, Ind., surrendered a base hit in the second inning and a walk each in the first two frames. But retired the last eight batters he would face, including the side in order in the third and fourth innings.

Ayers gave up a two-out walk in his inning of work in the fifth, while Sivyer and Shepard each tossed a perfect inning to complete the clean-sheet against the Mighty Oaks.

Tusculum got on the board in the third inning when Bowerman led off with a triple and scored on Ferrara's sacrifice fly out. In the fourth inning, TC exploded for four runs, including three on Ferrara's double with the bases loaded.

Tusculum added a run in the fifth inning on Pat Holleran's two-out bunt-single with the bases loaded.

Holleran finished the game going 2-for-2 with a walk as the Pioneers tallied nine hits in the contest.

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