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PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. — Senior Brenton Peters drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and sophomore Brent Jones improved to 3-0 on the season as the baseball team surged past Villanova, 3-1, to finish off a three-game sweep on Sunday. Cornell (11-5) has now won seven in a row to close out its Spring Break trip.
 
With the score tied at 1, junior Ben Swinford led off the seventh with an infield single. After advancing to second on a wild pitch, he came around to score on Peters' single up the middle. Peters is one of the Big Red's hottest hitters, sporting a team-high .407 average and .556 slugging percentage over the last nine games.
 
Making his fourth start of the season, Jones went a season-high 6-1/3 innings while fanning five. He left the game with one out in the seventh and the potential tying run on second. Eric Upton came on in relief and was greeted by a single, putting runners on the corners. Villanova then put on a squeeze play, which Upton sniffed out and thwarted by throwing home to freshman catcher Collin McGee to put the tag on the runner for the second out. After a walk loaded the bases, senior Mike Kazley came out of the bullpen and got the inning-ending out on a fielder's choice back to the mound.
 
Junior Zach McCulley then earned his first save with flawless eighth and ninth innings, striking out five in a row before inducing a game-ending fly ball to right.
 
Swinford scored the game's first run in the fifth inning after he hit a one-out double. McGee groundball to third was thrown away by the Wildcats, allowing Swinford to come around and put the Big Red on top.
 
Sophomore JD Whetsel then scored Cornell's insurance run in the top of the ninth. He was hit by a pitch with one out, then moved up to second on Tom D'Alessandro's single to center. Whetsel stole third to put runners on the corners, then came in to score on Matt Hall's RBI single through the left side.
 
Cornell returns home with seven wins over its eight-game Spring Break trip. The Big Red is scheduled to open the home portion of its schedule with a doubleheader at 2 p.m. Tuesday against Albany at Hoy Field before opening Ivy League play over the weekend against Yale and Brown.