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OMAHA, Neb. -- Bruin starting pitchers Ricky Holm and Brennan Henry combined for 24 strikeouts to lead the 14th-ranked Bellevue University baseball team to a doubleheader sweep of Waldorf College Thursday afternoon at Westgate Field in Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference action.

The Bruins took the opener 9-1 before completing the twin bill sweep with a 7-4 win in the finale.

Bellevue moved to 16-6-2 overall and 5-1 in the MCAC with the two conference victories while Waldorf dropped its 13th-straight game and fell to 1-14 and 0-6 in league play.

The Bruins will wrap-up their four-game conference series with the Warriors tomorrow with a 1:00 p.m. doubleheader.

Bellevue 9, Waldorf 1

Bellevue recorded 13 hits and stole seven bases en route to a 9-1 win in game one.

Nate Mullins went 4-for-5 with three RBIs, two runs, two doubles and a home run and Galli Cribbs added two hits, two runs and a stolen base to lead the offensive attack.

The Bruins took a 3-0 lead in the second inning after Aaron Brasher's RBI double to right field and back-to-back RBI groundouts by Tyler Blood and Bryce Kelly.

WC scored its first run of the game on an RBI single by Kendrick White in the top of the third. The Bruins responded in the bottom half of the inning with two runs on three hits. Cribbs and Mullins hit consecutive doubles and Charlie Krueger registered an RBI single to extend BU's lead to four, 5-1.

The Warriors walked four batters and committed two errors in the fourth frame as BU scored two more runs. Zack Clark crossed home plate on a throwing error and Mullins tallied an RBI infield single.

Mullins led the bottom of the eighth inning off with a home run to left field and Blood added an RBI single to give the Bruins a 9-1 advantage.

Holm struck out a season-high 12 batters and limited WC to just five hits to improve to 3-1. The senior from Marysville, Wash. leads the pitching staff with 59 strikeouts this season which ranks eighth in the NAIA.

Phillip Timm (1-3) took the loss for the Warriors, giving up seven runs on eight hits with six walks and two strikeouts in 4.2 innings.

Bellevue 7, Waldorf 4

Seven players recorded a hit in the game and Henry struck out a career-high 12 as BU won the nightcap, 7-4.

Derek Breit led the game off with a walk and stole two bases before eventually scoring the game's first run. BU answered with three runs on three hits in the home half of the first. Two Bruins scored on fielding error by WC's left fielder Vince Perricelli and Joe Mancuso hit sacrifice fly to put BU up 3-1. 

Krueger blasted a two-run home run and Clark added a two-out two-run single down the right field line to give the Bruins a six-run advantage after three innings.

The Warriors cut BU's lead down to 7-3 on Casey Schuermann's two-run home run to left field in the fourth.

The first three WC batters reached base in the seventh inning and used a bases-loaded walk to make the final score 7-4.

Henry won his fourth game of the season and gave up four hits in six complete innings.

WC starting pitcher Max Querin dropped to 0-4 after allowing seven runs in 2.2 innings of work.