TACOMA, Wash.  Whitman's sweep of a matinee doubleheader Friday at the University of Puget Sound extended the start of another win streak, as the Blues downed the Loggers 8-5 in the opener before closing the day with a 9-7 victory in Northwest Conference baseball action at Logger Field.

Whitman (15-15, 10-7 NWC) earlier this season posted a five-game win streak and Friday's sweep of UPS (13-14, 7-9) extends to three a new win streak after a Tuesday triumph over Whitworth University.

The Blues bats roared to life early Friday afternoon, putting up crooked numbers on the scoreboard in the second, third and fourth innings.

Alex Behrman knocked in the first of Whitman's three runs in the second, lacing a double down the left-field line to plate Kyle Reisman.

Brett Williams had reached safely on a fielder's choice and moved to third on Behrman's two-bagger, which made it easy to cover the final 90 feet on a wild pitch from UPS starter Makao Mau.

Behrman eventually came in for the third run on a double by Jake Wishart.

Lucas Thrun and Reisman each contributed RBI-groundouts in the top of the third, scoring Tyler Lewis and Joseph Zimmer to pad the lead with two more runs.

Whitman tagged on three more in the fourth with a Lewis RBI-single that scored Wishart, and a two-RBI single into left field by Thrun that pushed Anthony Lim and Lewis all the way around for an 8-0 Blues advantage.

Puget Sound scratched for a run in the fifth, two more in the sixth, and one each in the seventh and eighth but the combination of relievers Steven Ainsworth and Milo Mincin was able to finish off the victory for Whitman.

Jimmy Smiley got the start for the Blues but left the game after a scoreless first inning, handing the ball to Ainsworth to begin the second.

The senior lefty went 6 1/3 innings to earn the win after surrendering five runs on 11 hits.

Mincin came on in the eighth and earned the save with 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief work.

Whitman heated up its bats early in Game 2 with a Reisman two-run homerun in the second.

The lead grew in the third with Reisman's two-RBI double into right field and an unearned run later in the frame to extend the lead to 5-0.

A pair of Logger runs in the bottom of the fourth cut into that advantage, but Tyler Lewis' three-run bash over the left-field fence in the sixth made it 8-2.

Zimmer followed with a double into the left-centerfield gap that knocked UPS starter Joe Brennan from the game.

Max Yourist relieved Brennan but surrendered a double into the right-center gap by Thrun to bring in Zimmer for the ninth run.

Puget Sound rallied with five runs in its final three half-innings before Mincin -- on in relief of Collin Anderson, who had taken over from starter Tristan Kalnins to begin the eighth -- finally ended the rally in the ninth.

Reisman's four-RBI game led the way for Whitman, with Lewis' three-run knock getting the assist.

Kalnins earned the win after tossing seven innings and scattering eight hits for just three runs. Mincin's game-clinching efforts on the bump earned him his second save of the day.

Whitman and UPS will go back at it Saturday at noon for the third game of the three-game set.