FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- All it took was some clutch pitching and timely hitting for Bethel College to jar the University of Saint Francis back to earth with 7-1 and 3-0 wins at Cougar Field on Monday afternoon.

  The Pilots snapped the Cougars' 8-game winning streak, the longest for a USF baseball team since 2000 when they won nine in a row. USF travels to Bethel in Mishawaka on Tuesday looking for revenge. The sweep dropped USF from third in the MCC to sixth with the Pilots moving into third place.

  "We just couldn't string anything together," USF left-fielder Jake Trahin said. "We've got to come back tomorrow and get things done. We've done it before."

  The Cougars did get seven hits off 6-1 Andrew Biskupski, but the crafty right-hander kept USF batters off balance with a good mix of fastballs and off-speed pitches. USF got two hits in the second, the fifth and the seventh, but only scratched out a run in the seventh on an error by second baseman Michael Green with two outs. With runners at first and second, Jon Saporsantos scorched a Biskupski pitch down the third-base line, just foul, and then Saporsantos struck out swinging.

  "That was the way it was all day," USF coach Greg Roberts said. "We just didn't play with a lot of fire and couldn't make anything happen to get fired up about."

  BC took a 2-0 lead in the second against starter Matt Degitz, but it could have been worse. Nate Long tracked down a drive in the right centerfield gap, fired the ball to Saporsantos who whirled and threw a strike to catcher Drew Linder easily cutting down pinch-runner Dustin Gosztola at the plate keeping BC off the board.

  On the next play, Trahin misplayed a single allowing Reid Spitaels to advance to second. Marty Rasala singled to score one run and Ben Nehls hit a sacrifice fly to right to chase in another run for a 2-0 lead.

  BC jumped in front 4-0 in the third when the MCC's leading hitter, Nelson Sanchez, belted a Degitz delivery to left field for a 2-run homer. BC added three more in the seventh, two on a homer by the ninth batter in the Pilots' Lance Schrock.

  Long and Linder both went 2-for-3 for USF.

  In Game 2, the Pilots got a run-scoring single from Walter Lehmann in the second off USF starting pitcher Marc Gillig for a 1-0 lead. BC added two more in the fourth on a Spitaels homer to left and that was the only scoring. The Cougars, who came into the game batting .297 as a team good for No. 3 in the MCC, never got more than one hit in an inning and never got a runner to third base.

  After Tuesday twin bill at Bethel, USF only has a home-and home series against Taylor left in MCC play.

Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

-- Go USF --