SPOKANE, Wash. - Chad Flett and Brent Flyberg, the only senior pitchers on the Whitworth baseball team, pitched a pair of complete game victories over visiting Whitman to give the Pirates a series sweep of the Missionaries. Whitworth won the opener 3-1 and the nightcap 9-2.

The Pirates finish the season with a 10-26 overall record and an 8-20 mark in the NWC. The Missionaries are 3-30, 2-25 and will finish the season at home next weekend against Puget Sound.

Chad Flett

GAME 1: Whitworth 3, Whitman 1 - Complete box score
Flett outdueled Whitman's Pete Stadmeyer to improve to 3-2 this season. He allowed one run on seven hits with four strikeouts and four walks in his complete-game effort.

Stadmeyer (1-6) was nearly as good, giving up three runs on only six hits with three strikeouts and two walks.

Whitman took a 1-0 lead in the third when Erik Korsmo's RBI single drove home Brian Kitamura.

Whitworth scored all three runs in the fourth inning. Mitch Nelson doubled home Landon Scott to tie the game, then JR Jarrell scored on a wild pitch. With Nelson on third and one out, Dan Belet laid down a squeeze bunt for the final run of the rally.

Whitman got two runners aboard in the seventh with one out, but Flett induced Jay Richards to ground into a double play to end the game.

Korsmo led Whitman with two hits, while Nelson finished with a pair of hits for the Pirates.

Brent Flyberg

GAME 2: Whitworth 9, Whitman 2 - Complete box score
Making his first career start on his final day as a Pirate, Flyberg (2-1) tossed a complete-game five-hitter to lead the Pirates to a series sweep. He struck out two and walked two along the way.

Whitworth scored two in the first, two in the second, three in the third and two in the fourth to steadily pull away from the Missionaries. Flett and Erik Nilson each drove in a pair of runs.

Four walks and a wild pitch allowed the Bucs to score two without the benefit of a hit in the first. Flett hit a two-run homer, his first of the season, in the second.

Taylor McMahon and Nilson had RBI singles in Whitworth's three-run third. Nelson hit his fourth home run of the season in the fourth before Nilson drove in his second run of the game to complete Whitworth's scoring.

Nilson, a senior playing his only year of baseball at Whitworth, drove in the first two runs in his career on his final day as a Pirate. Matt Monahan, another senior, had two hits and scored a run.

Whitman got two runs in the fifth when Jason Sease doubled home Michael Lazcano and Dan White, but the Missionaries left four runners on base over the final three innings against Flyberg.

Calvin Davis (0-3) started for Whitman and allowed eight earned runs on seven hits in four innings of work. He struck out one batter and walked five. Korsmo had two more hits for Whitman.