UW-Stevens Point used three dominating pitching performances to sweep three baseball games from UW-Platteville on Monday in Platteville.

Four Pointers' pitchers limited the Pioneers to just three runs and 12 hits for the day. Brandon Hemstead (DeForest/DeForest) threw a complete game in a 5-2 opening-game win, Mike Thrun (Franklin/Franklin) went six innings in a 3-1 win in the middle game and Garrett Nix (Osseo/Osseo-Fairchild) twirled a one-hit shutout in a 5-0 victory in the nightcap. The Pointers are now 9-6 overall, while UW-Platteville is 5-9.

The tripleheader of seven inning games marked the first conference games for each team and was necessitated when doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday were rained out. The fourth game of the series will not be made up.

It was the fourth time over the past seven years that UW-Stevens Point has played three games in a single day and the Pointers have won all three each time. They also accomplished the feat in the 2001 and 2006 conference tournaments and in 2003 at UW-Stout.

In the opening game, Hemstead struck out seven and allowed just five hits in the victory. Joel Hojnacki (Plover/SPASH) led off the game with a single and scored on an error and the lead stood until the Pointers added four more runs in the sixth. Brandon Scheidler (Chippewa Falls/McDonell) and Tim Schlosser (Oconomowoc/Oconomowoc) each had run-scoring singles and two runs scored on a two-out throwing error. Ross Bennett hit a two-run homer for UW-Platteville in the bottom of the sixth and the Pioneers put two runners on base in the bottom of the seventh, but Hemstead worked out of the jam.

Thrun had seven strikeouts and gave up six hits in the second game before Jordan Zimmermann (Auburndale/Auburndale) pitched the seventh inning for his first career save. Brad Archambeau (Watertown/Watertown) and Scheidler each had run-scoring singles in a two-run third inning.

Nix had his first complete game in six career starts and finished with nine strikeouts, including five in the last three innings. He allowed only a leadoff single to Nick Aplin in the second inning. Garret Bloom had a run-scoring single in the second inning and Scheidler drove in a run on a fifth inning single. Ryan Byrnes (Beaver Dam/Beaver Dam) added a two-run double in the sixth and Zimmermann slugged a solo homer in the seventh.

The Pointers host UW-Whitewater in a four-game series on Thursday and Friday with doubleheaders at 1 p.m. each day. Zimmermann is the scheduled starter for Thursday's opening game.