WINGATE, N.C. - -  Wingate continued its momentum to the postseason as the hosts Bulldogs completed a three-game sweep of UVA Wise by claiming both ends of a twin-bill by scores of 8-4 and 14-3 Saturday. The series was the final of the year for the Cavaliers who did not qualify for postseason play.

Game one saw Wingate (29-16, 18-6 SAC) score four times in the home second to take a lead that would not be relinquished. Ricky Clark doubled home Sean Barnett to get the scoring started before Clark later scored on a wild pitch. The final two runs of the frame came on Lane Rhodes' two-run single.

UVA Wise (15-33, 4-20 SAC) would play from behind the rest of the contest. D'Sean Prinkleton's RBI groundout plated Nick Badgett in the third prior to Jeb Hurst and Gavin Birkhimer having run-scoring hits in the sixth to cut the deficit to one at 4-3.

The Bulldogs would score the game's next four runs. Brett Adams worked a bases-loaded walk in the sixth before Adams' single scored Seaver King in the eighth, Sean Barnett put the hosts up by five when he lined a two-run homer down the right-field line in the eighth.

Barnett's two-run blast proved to be pivotal as Brandon Costa's team would get the tying run to the plate in the ninth.

Birkhimer doubled to start the ninth and moved to third on a ground out. Nick Badgett singled in Birkhimer with one out in the inning to cut the lead to four at 8-4.

After Wingate reliever Corey Avant recorded the inning's second out, Prinkleton worked a walk and Cole Harness was hit by a pitch to bring the tying run to the plate.

Avant would get a ground ball back to the mound and flip to first base for the game's final out, preserving the victory.

Badgett, DJ Dickson, Hurst and Birkhimer all had two hits in the loss for the Cavs while reliever Bo Trantham tossed 1 2/3 innings of scoreless ball with two strikeouts.

Dickson gave UVA Wise its only lead on the day in the top of the first inning of game two. The outfielder belted a solo homer to right field. The blast was Dickson's fourth of the season and the 50th of the year for the team, the 50 homers are the most by a Cavalier squad in school history.

The lead was short-lived as Wingate would score the game's next 13 runs to runaway for the series sweep.

UVA Wise was held to five hits in game two with Birkhimer, Prinkleton, Harness and Hurst joining Dickson with a hit each in the loss.

Seaver King homered and knocked in six for the victorious Bulldogs who will enter next week's South Atlantic Conference Tournament as the No. 2 seed.