COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – In almost a carbon copy of their game two days ago, visiting Swarthmore scored four runs in the second inning and rode the early outburst all the way home to a 5-2 Centennial Conference victory over the Ursinus College baseball team, completing a sweep of their home-and-home doubleheader.

For the second time in three days, Swarthmore (22-16, 6-10) put the Bears in an early hole with a four-run second. After a walk and a single to open the frame, back-to-back ringing doubles down the left-field line by Jackson Roberts and Conor Elliott made it 3-0. A bunt single and another free pass loaded the bases with no one out, and Ursinus (16-21, 2-14) was forced to bring in junior Seth Regensburg from the pen. The left-hander did well to limit the damage, striking out a pair after a wild pitch brought home the fourth run of the day.

The Garnet added an unearned run in the third on a two-out blooper by Elliott.

The Bears got on the board in the fifth, when junior Jake Banks dropped a double down the right-field line to lead off and went to third on a sacrifice by classmate Vincent Terry. Junior Kieran Geyer hit a fly ball to medium-deep right field, and the throw from Swarthmore's Roy Walker beat Banks to the plate, but Banks deftly slid around the tag and touched the plate with Ursinus' first run (pictured below).

Geyer drove in the home team's second run with a perfectly placed bunt down the third base line, scoring Banks – who had singled with one out, stolen second, and gone to third on a wild pitch – with two outs.

A base hit by Banks and a two-out liner to center by Geyer brought the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the ninth, but Gibbs got pinch-hitter Austin Feuerman looking to end it.

Elliott finished 2-for-4 with two RBI and a run for the Garnet, while Roberts was 1-for-3 with two RBI and a run and Walker scored twice.

Regensburg was spectacular, striking out two Garnet in each of his first four innings and allowing one hit over eight brilliant innings. He walked two and finished with ten strikeouts, giving him 70 for the season, the most in a single season by a Bear pitcher since Zeb Engle fanned 91 in 2009. It was the fourth outing with double-digit strikeouts for Regensburg, who averages nearly one and a half per inning.

Aikins (2-6) was charged with four runs in an inning-plus.

Brian Gibbs (4-3) was in command from the jump for Swarthmore. The southpaw tossed his fourth complete game of the season, scattering nine hits and striking out 11 without a walk; 89 of his 116 pitches went for strikes.

Banks and Geyer were the only Bears to have much success against Gibbs; the former went 3-for-4 for the first three-hit game of his career and scored both runs, while Geyer was 2-for-3 and drove in both runs.

The baseball team closes out the conference season with a doubleheader at McDaniel on Saturday.