REDLANDS, Calif.—Anthony Clerici closed out his program-record sixth and seventh games of the season and Lewis & Clark baseball reached 18 wins for the first time since 1995 on Saturday afternoon at The Yard.

The Pioneers earned a 4-1 game win and then held on for a 12-11 game two victory to sweep host University of Redlands. 

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KEY MOMENTS GAME ONE: LEWIS & CLARK 4-1 

Junior Brayden Nomura dominated in his first start of the season and Nomura and Clerici combined to limited the hosts to just six hits, two walks and one run. 

Nomura, who was making his third collegiate start, went seven innings and scattered five hits, two walks and one run. He also struck out two, to improve to 3-1 on the year.  

Clerici went the final two innings in game one to earn his record-setting sixth save of the year. The sophomore struck out three and gave up one hit. 

Offensively, freshman Casey Parson paced the team with two hits, one run, one RBI and a walk. Brennen Davis (one run) and Dylan Moore also added two hits and Mason Lee went 1-3 with a run, an RBI, a walk and a home run. Jack Thomson finished 0-1 with a run scored and three walks. 

Redlands scored their lone run of the game in the bottom of the first, when Jonah Advincula hit a solo home run. 

Lewis & Clark tied the game in the third and scored three more runs across the fourth and fifth to close out the scoring. 

In the third, Blake Tellinghusen was hit a by pitch, Jack Savant singled and Thomson walked to load the bases with one out. Zack Kon tied the game with a sac fly to make it 1-1. 

The Pioneers took the lead for good in the fourth. Lee hit a go-ahead solo home run to make it 2-1. Parsons walked and moved to second on a Tellinghusen hit by pitch. Davis drove Parsons in with an RBI single to extend the lead to 3-1. 

Lewis & Clark added one final run in the fourth. Thomson, Kon and Lee all walked to load the bases and Parsons delivered an RBI single. The damage could have been worse but the Bulldogs threw out Kon trying to score from second. 

While the Pioneers were building a lead, Nomura was cruising. He never allowed multiple baserunners to reach at the same time and retired the side in order three times. 

KEY MOMENTS GAME ONE: LEWIS & CLARK 12-11 

Lewis & Clark raced out to a 12-6 lead after four and hung on, to earn the doubleheader sweep and the series victory over Redlands. 

The Pioneers pounded out 14 hits, including six extra-base hits, and recorded 12 runs in a total team effort offensively. 

Savant led the Pioneers offensively with three hits, three runs, two doubles and an RBI. Will Heron and Parson each tacked on two hits, two RBI and a run scored and Justin Cavagnaro went 2-4 with two runs, one RBI and two walks. 

Moore added a huge 3-run home run and Thomson finished 1-3 with two runs, two RBI and was hit by three pitches to set the career record for hit by pitches (41). 

Noah Ferruggia earned his third win of the year by going five innings and allowing seven hits, eight runs (four earned) and striking out two. Kris Wuelfing went two innings of relief and Clerici closed it out by striking out three over 1.1 innings. 

The Pioneers jumped all over Redlands in the first. With two on and no outs, Thomson ripped a two-run double to score Davis and Savant. After a walk and a hit by pitch loaded the bases, Heron drove in Thomson with an RBI single and Parson plated Cavagnaro with a sac fly. 

Cavagnaro made it 5-2 in the top of the second when his RBI single scored Savant. 

Lewis & Clark seemingly put the game away with a seven-run fourth inning. 

Davis and Savant opened the inning with back-to-back doubles to retake the lead (6-5). After a hit by pitch and a walk, Kon plated Savant with a sac fly. With two outs, Heron and Parsons delivered back-to-back RBI singles and Moore crushed a three-run home run to make it 12-5. 

Redlands scored one run in the fourth, two in the fifth and three more in the eighth to cut the deficit to 12-11. With runners at the corners and two outs in the eighth, Clerici came on and induced a ground out to third to keep the lead. 

He struck out the side in the ninth to pick up his second save of the day. 

DEEPER LOOK 

• Clerici now owns the program record for saves in a single-season with seven. He also sits just one save away from the program mark for career saves (nine). The sophomore went 3.1 innings on Saturday and struck out six, while allowing just one baserunner (a single). 
• With the two wins, Lewis & Clark (18-14) has the most wins by a Pioneers baseball team since the 1995 team finished 22-14. The 1995 team is the last Lewis & Clark baseball team to finish with a winning record. 
• Parsons and Davis each finished with two hits in both games. 
• Thomson not only set the career record for hit by pitches on Saturday (41) but is now just two hit by pitches away from tying the single-season record of 16. He tied the record last season. 
• With the game one victory, head coach Matt Kosderka reached 50 wins as head coach of the Pioneers. 
• Thomson became the fourth player in program history to score 50 runs in a single-season in game two (52 runs this year).  

WHO'S NEXT 

Lewis & Clark will close out their non-conference schedule on Sunday, when the travel to take on Caltech at 11 a.m. The Pioneers are 4-0 this year against Caltech and already have clinched a non-conference winning record (8-4).