PEMBROKE, N.C. – Tyler Wood struck out eight and the UNC Pembroke baseball team pounded out 11 hits Sunday afternoon to defeat Lander, 6-2, and complete the three-game Peach Belt Conference sweep at Sammy Cox Field.

The Braves improve to 29-19 overall and 11-10 in the PBC, while Lander slides to 18-25, 6-15.

Keith Whitman singled three times and scored once to pave the way for an 11-hit attack for the Braves, who also got two hits apiece from both Stuart Champion (2-for-3) and Ryan Gathman (2-for-4). Malcolm McLeod highlighted the offense for the Bearcats by scoring a run on a 3-for-4 hitting line.

Wood (4-3) scattered seven hits and a pair of earned runs over seven innings to tally his fourth win, with Shawn Bumgarner picking up his first save of the campaign after striking out three and yielding just a pair of hits in two innings from the mound.

Lander starter Derek Whaley (3-2) lasted just three innings in being tagged with his second loss of the season. The freshman allowed five runs on seven UNCP hits before giving way to reliever Sean Edenfield in the fourth.

The Braves loaded the bases with their first three at-bats in the second and got run-scoring knocks from Champion, Jason Coker and Jon-Jon Mirra to take a 3-0 lead into the fourth, but the Bearcats rallied for a pair of runs in the top of the next frame to cut the deficit down to just a lone run when McLeod scored on a bases-loaded walk and AJ Nunziato scored on Robert Skinner's sacrifice fly.

Josh Bentley drew a bases-loaded walk and Jason Morales followed a short time later with a sacrifice fly to deep centerfield to stretch the lead back out to a trio of runs, with Bentley's RBI double in the bottom of the eighth providing UNCP with an insurance run.