TIFFIN -- It was a tough day at Peaceful Valley for the Heidelberg University baseball team.  The Student Princes were swept, 8-0 and 16-4, by Mount Union.  

On the day, HU was out-hit 29-8.

Heidelberg slipped to 3-3 overall, 0-2 in games that count toward conference standings.  Mount Union remained unbeaten -- now 4-0, 2-0.  

GAME ONE:  MTU 8   BERG 0

The early innings were not friendly to baserunners.  'Berg starter Ross Thompson picked off a runner in each of the first three innings and catcher Marc Ochoa threw out a would-be base stealer from his knees on a pitch low and away.  Mount, meanwhile, doubled off a runner to end the first.  

Entrenched in a pitcher's duel, Mount Union broke through first.  Two doubles in the top of the sixth pushed the first run of the game across.  Left fielder Stephen Currie helped stave off more damage by throwing out a runner at the plate after catching a fly ball. 

Mount Union broke the game open late, hitting four home runs to left.  

Thompson went 7.1 innings, allowing four earned runs and struck out three.  

Meanwhile, Mount starter Thomas Gallant dazzled.  The junior scattered three hits and fanned 13 batters in the complete game shutout.  

GAME TWO: MTU 16   BERG 4 (7 innings)

Mount Union carried their momentum into the nightcap, plating three runs in the top of the first and five more in the second.  Eventually, the lead ballooned to 12-0.  

Hitless through three, Heidelberg plated their only four runs of the day.  Deaunte Fleming walked and moved to third on a single by Reese Kuhns.  An infield single by Camden Farley loaded the bases for Elliot Kurtz.  Kurtz sent a shot up the middle to score a run.  After a wild pitch plated another, HU would add two more on a ground out and an error. 

Undeterred, the Purple Raiders added two in both the sixth and the seventh.  The mercy rule ended the game after seven innings.  

UP NEXT:  
The Student Princes and the Purple Raiders will run it back on Sunday -- a doubleheader in Alliance that starts at 1 p.m.