Baseball | 5/14/2011 6:30:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 [Game 1 box score] [Game 2 box score]

MONMOUTH, Ore. - Saturday was Western Oregon's senior day but it was two junior pitchers who stole the show.

Starters Grady Wood and Kirk Lind combined to shutout Montana State Billings over 15 innings, while holding them to just five hits, as the Wolves swept the doubleheader, 3-0 and 3-0.

The Wolves (37-13, 27-5 GNAC) closed out their regular by winning 21 of their last 23 games. WOU will now await the announcement of the NCAA West Regional selections which will occur on May 15.

Game 1
Grady Wood (8-4) proved to everyone that his NCBWA Pitcher of the Week honor was no fluke. In his first start since throwing a one-hit shutout of Northwest Nazarene, Wood dominated MSU Billings for nine innings to lead WOU to the 3-0 win. He allowed just four hits while striking out 10 and inducing 12 groundball outs. This was the eighth straight win for the junior from Eugene.

The Wolves' offense pushed across a run ion the first inning on a single by Bo Folkinga, and added one apiece in the sixth and eighth in support of Wood.

Folkinga finished the game 2-for-4 with two runs batted in and a stolen base. Michael Chiarelli added two hits and a run.

Game 2
Kirk Lind and Zach Miller combined on a one-hit shutout as Western Oregon closed out the season with a 3-0 victory.

He struck out five and the only hit of the game came off him with one out in the fifth. In the process, Lind won his seventh straight start since moving into the rotation and captured the GNAC earned run average crown with a 1.53 ERA.

Miller took over for Lind and pitched a perfect seventh, with one strikeout, to pick up the save.

Western Oregon scored all three of its runs in the fifth inning thanks to MSU Billings errors and small-ball execution. It was Austin Potter scoring the first run of the game on an error by the Yellowjackets' pitcher. Then Jacob Whisler picked up an RBI on a squeeze, and Brady Locker capped off the inning by scoring on a passed ball.