WALLA WALLA, Wash.  The hits kept right on coming for Whitman as it pounded out a 12-2 Northwest Conference victory Sunday over visiting University of Puget Sound to complete the weekend's three-game sweep of the Loggers at Borleske Stadium.

During the three wins Whitman (15-15, 9-9 NWC) banged out 43 hits and 28 runs against UPS (10-16, 6-11) pitching.

Though the hit barrage Sunday was a welcome continuance from Saturday's doubleheader sweep, the job starting pitcher Travis Craven and three relievers did in containing the UPS bats can't be ignored.

Craven (3-3) left after five innings of work, scattering five hits while allowing a run in the second and one in the fourth.

Steven Ainsworth worked the next two innings, surrendering four hits but keeping the Loggers scoreless until Patrick Stanton and Braden Hussey would finish the game hurling one inning each of hitless ball.

The pitching gem would have been wasted, however, had the bats not continued to ring out in the valley of the Blue Mountains.

Right from the start the pinging of the aluminum weapons the Blues were wielding was music to the home team's ears -- and more like a requiem in the visitor's dugout.

Brett Williams opened the bottom of the first with a double into left field, then easily came around to score the first run of the game on Lucas Thrun's RBI-triple into center.

A well-placed grounder by Joseph Zimmer was the first out but it also allowed Thrun to race home for a quick 2-0 Whitman lead.

The Loggers picked up the first of their runs against Craven in the top of the second, but the Blues lengthened their lead with two more runs in the third.

Zimmer's one-out single was the first of four consecutive hits in the frame. Zimmer and Adrian Vela eventually scored on RBI-singles from David Johnson and Jake Wishart.

Another Loggers run, coming in the fourth, kept the visitors' hopes alive but a two-run fifth and a six-run seventh by Whitman dashed any remaining hope.

The pair of runs in the fifth were a result of some small ball -- single, walk, RBI-single, RBI-single -- but the six in the seventh came from a combination of get-on-base at-bats and timely knocks.

A Zimmer single into center pushed two of three base runners on board across the plate, and later a single up the middle from John Lyon emptied another bases loaded situation for three more.

By the end of the day Zimmer and Thrun had collected three hits apiece, while Williams, Vela, David Johnson and Anthony Lim added two each.

Zimmer and Lyon both ended their afternoon with three RBIs.

Whitman takes to the road for its next games, heading to Portland, Oregon, to play host Lewis & Clark College in a four-game set. Saturday's doubleheader games will both be conference match-ups, but only the first of the two scheduled on Sunday will count in the league standings.