ROCKFORD, Ill. – Sophomore Brandon McCumber threw a five-hit shutout, striking out 10, to lead the MSOE baseball team to a doubleheader sweep with Rockford Sunday afternoon at Aviators Stadium.

The Raiders (6-26, 3-13 NACC) won game one 2-0 and fell short in a late-game rally against the Regents (15-16, 6-8 NACC), 7-4, in game two.

McCumber (2-1) is the first MSOE pitcher to throw a shutout since Lucas Yogerst on March 3 of last, but the first to do so in a nine-inning game since Phillip Lee April 22, 2008. He had three 1-2-3 innings in the game and finished strong with a strikeout looking to end the game and a runner on second base.

He allowed just one runner to reach third base in the game and three times ended an inning with a strikeout and a runner in scoring position.

The lineup manufactured all of the runs McCumber would need with timely hits. Junior Tyler Doyle led off the fourth inning with a double and junior Ryan Miller followed with a run-scoring single for a 1-0 lead.

MSOE added an insurance run in the fifth inning, when sophomore Eric Kremers led off with a single. Three batters later, junior Casey Magyar hit a double down the leftfield line to make it 2-0.

The Regents wasted little time in getting on the board in game two, striking for a run in the first inning. They tacked on a pair of runs in the third inning to go ahead 3-0.

That was the score until the Raiders got on the board in the sixth inning, capitalizing on Rockford miscues to pull within 3-2.

Freshman Trevor Symbal reached on an error to start the inning and was followed by a walk to freshman Ryan Newman. The runners moved up on a ground out and Symbal scored on another ground out, this one by freshman Jimmy Carrington. Another error followed, allowing Newman to score and pull the Red & White with one run.

Rockford scored four runs for some insurance in the eighth inning to go ahead 7-2, but the Red & White did not go down without a fight.

In the ninth inning, junior Nick Jablonski had a pinch-hit single with one out. Freshman Josh Peltier pinch ran and moved to third on a wild pitch. Senior Jake Roberts drove him in with a ground out, making it 7-3 with two outs.

An error, Symbal single and Newman walk loaded the bases. A wild pitch allowed one run to score, but that was all the Raiders would get in the end.

Senior Thomas Hartwick (0-6) got the game-two start on the mound and threw 5.0 innings, allowing just one earned run, three total, while striking out five and walking one.

The Raiders return to the field Saturday in a doubleheader at Wisconsin Lutheran. First pitch is at noon.