Related: No. 18 Baseball Attains Program Benchmark In Win Over Barton

WILSON – The 18th-ranked UNC Pembroke baseball team pounded out 13 hits and scored 12 times behind right-hander Connor Pratt's third quality start of the season as the Braves finished off a season sweep of Barton with a 12-4 rain-shortened victory over the Bulldogs on Wednesday afternoon at Nixon Field.

Drew Cole singled in a run and scored three times on a 3-for-5 day at the plate to pace the Braves (31-10) who have now won 17 of their last 22 outings. Dalton Knight (2-for-3, 2B), Chad Whitehead (2-for-5, 2 R) and Billy Vaughn (2-for-4, R) both registered a pair of hits, while Collins Cuthrell doubled and walked three times on a 1-for-3 day.

Andrew Webster turned in a 3-for-4 showing to pace the Bulldogs (17-25), while leadoff hitter Spiers Miller walked twice and drove in a run on a 2-for-3 hitting line.

Pratt (5-1) struck out two and scattered seven hits over six innings of work to notch his fifth win of the season for the visitors. Barton utilized the services of six pitchers on the day, with Seth Breasseale (0-3) picking up the loss after walking three and allowing two earned runs in the top of the third.

Cuthrell's RBI groundout in the first gave UNCP a quick lead, but Barton struck for two runs of its own in the bottom of the frame to grab the momentum. Breasseale got Cole on a fly out to start the third, but walked each of the next three batters before allowing a two-out double by Beaver that plated Cuthrell and Zade Denton.

The Braves sent nine batters to the plate in a four-run fourth inning to put the game away.

UNCP will be back in action again this weekend when it welcomes Peach Belt Conference foe Lander (21-23, 10-17 PBC) to Pembroke for a three-game set at Sammy Cox Field. The squads will open up the weekend with a 1 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday and close out the series with a 1 p.m. single dip on Sunday.