Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MOUNT VERNON, Iowa – The Grinnell College baseball team clinched its fourth Midwest Conference South Division championship in the last five years with a sweep of Cornell College Saturday afternoon.
 
The Pioneers claimed the opener 5-3 and then came back with a 10-1 win to improve to 11-3 in the division and 18-14 in all games. Grinnell now has a seven-game winning streak.
 
Cornell fell to 8-6 in the MWC South and 20-13 overall.
 
In the opener, Ryan Penaflor '16 and Matt Godinsky '16 each had three hits for Grinnell. Godinsky had a double among his totals.
 
Will Pahos '14 worked six innings to get the pitching win, striking out five in the process. Andrew Kelley '14 tossed hitless ball over the final three innings for the save. He fanned three.
 
Godinsky's infield single scored a run for Grinnell in the first inning, but Cornell grabbed the lead with solo runs in the fourth and fifth. In the top of the sixth, the Pioneers tied it at 2-all on Jacob Beecher's '16 sacrifice fly.
 
Cornell made it 3-2 in the bottom of the inning, but the Pioneers struck for three runs in the seventh. Anthony Mack '16 had a two-run single and Penaflor an RBI single.
 
Grinnell pounded out 16 hits in the second game, including a 4-for-5 performance by Matt Hammond '17. Mack added three hits, while Niko Takayesu '17, Beecher and Walker Bell '15 had two apiece. Hammond hit a homer and doubled, while Takayesu and Mack also doubled.
 
Sam Tinkham '16 tossed five-hit ball and struck out 12 over eight innings to get the pitching win.
 
Grinnell got offensive early, scoring four runs in the first as Godinsky had a two-run single and Hammond and Towner added one-run singles. In the fourth, Mack belted an RBI double while Bell singled in a run in the fifth.
 
Grinnell made it 7-0 in the sixth on Beecher's RBI single. The Pioneers closed out their scoring in the eighth on Hammond's three-run homer to left, the first round-tripper of his collegiate career.
 
The same teams meet again Sunday in Grinnell on Senior Day. The first pitch of the twin bill is slated for noon.