The Wayland Baptist Pioneer baseball team improved its record to 12-2 on the season with a doubleheader sweep of Culver Stockton College on Saturday afternoon at Wilder Field. 

The Pioneers won the first game, 3-2, on pinch hitter Courtney Williams' walk-off homer in the bottom of the seventh. In the nightcap, Todd Weldon pitched a two-hit shutout and Brett Sheppard returned from off-season hand surgery to hit a grand slam in the 6-0 victory.

Sophomore Marcus Limon made his first start of the season in game one for Wayland. The Estacado High graduate allowed just one run on two hits in five innings of work, striking out eight, but walking seven. Christopher McNeil came in with a runner on in the sixth, allowing a run on two hits.

Sophomore Trevor Stringer got the win, his third of the season, pitching the final inning and a third, surrendering just one hit and recording one strikeout.

The Wildcats from Culver Stockton, a NAIA college from Canton, Mo., a small town two hours north of St. Louis, actually outhit Wayland in the opener 5 to 3. The difference was in the size of the hits, however. All five CSC hits were singles, while the hits off the bats of the Pioneers were of the home run variety. Second baseman Brett Cook led the game off with a solo shot over the left centerfield wall, Franky Busani smacked a line drive to left to start the fourth, and Williams' blast came on the first pitch of the seventh.

Game two started out in much the same fashion. The Pioneers got on the board first with a solo shot off the bat of Todd Jeffress to lead off the second.

Sheppard's homer, in his second at bat of the season, came with two outs in the fourth. Jeffress started things off with a one-out double to left center. After a strikeout, Eddie Allen and Bobby Curtis were issued back-to-back walks to load the bases for the senior catcher, who received medical clearance to play just prior to the start of the doubleheader.

The Pioneers' lone run of the day that was not the result of a home run came two batters later. Cook followed up the grand slam with a bunt single, then scored on Michael Prell's double down the left field line.

Weldon picked up his fourth win and his second complete game of the season. The junior from Carlsbad struck out eight batters.

Curtis and Pedro Gomez got the other two Pioneer hits in the contest. Curtis had a single up the middle in the second, while Gomez doubled to the wall in left center in the fifth.

The two teams meet one more time Sunday afternoon at Wilder Field for a nine-inning game beginning at 1 p.m.