LEBANON, Tenn. – Mike Mandarino belted three home runs, part of six round-trippers on the day for Cumberland, and the seventh-ranked Bulldogs finished off a weekend sweep against Lyon College with a 13-3 victory in seven innings Sunday at Ernest L. Stockton Field-Woody Hunt Stadium.

The Bulldogs (15-9, 5-1 TranSouth) won their fifth straight game and finished 6-2 over the last seven days during Spring Break with the only two setbacks against fifth-ranked Embry-Riddle. CU recorded 11 hits against four Lyon (19-10, 2-4) hurlers, using the long-ball to put up big innings and sweep the series.

Mandarino hit a solo homer to leadoff the second inning, added a two-run shot in the third and added a tape-measure homer down the leftfield line in the sixth. Nick Sydnor, Tyler Wheeler and Antonio Butler each posted solo homers in the win for Cumberland.

Chipper Smith (4-3) picked up the victory, allowing two earned runs on five hits in six innings of work. The lefthander walked two and struck out six. Devin Stovall tossed a perfect seventh inning, striking out two for CU.

Lyon starter Josh McNatt (2-1) took the loss, giving up five runs on three hits in 2.2 innings. Brenden Camp allowed three runs on four hits and Colton Mcspadden gave up four runs on three hits for the Scots as well.

Cory Urquhart collected two hits and scored twice for the Bulldogs and Wheeler added a pair of hits and two RBIs as well.

Lyon scored first in the contest with the help of a CU error, as Colby Rogers walked to leadoff the second and Michael Armentors reached on a throwing error by Josh McGee two batters later. Roger Glaude’s two-out RBI single gave the Scots a 1-0 edge.

But the lead did not last long, as Mandarino hit the third pitch in the bottom half of the inning over the wall in left. Wheeler followed with a solo shot and the Bulldogs held a 2-1 lead.

Cumberland added three more runs in the third, starting when Sam Lind was hit with one out. Two batters later Mandarino hit his second homer of the game, this one also to left. Sydnor then walked, stole second, went to third on a throwing error and scored on Wheeler’s single down the rightfield line.

In the fourth the Bulldogs put up three more runs, with a single from Richie Seaton and a walk to Butler beginning the inning. Urquhart plated a run with a single to leftcenter and Lind’s RBI groundout pushed across Butler. Urquhart later scored on a single to leftcenter from McGee for an 8-1 advantage.

Bryan Lynn singled with one out in the sixth for the Scots and Rogers followed with an RBI double to rightcenter. Jim Gossett then doubled to right, but he was thrown out trying stretch it to a triple.

Cumberland put the game away with five more runs in the bottom of the inning, with Butler’s homer leading off the frame. Urquhart then singled and Ben Foster walked before Mandarino’s blast down the leftfield line. Sydnor followed with his own mammoth blast to rightcenter, with the ball hitting Spring Street and bouncing into a yard for the final run of the game.

Cumberland takes on 15th-ranked Missouri Baptist at 6 p.m. on Tuesday at Veterans Field in Lebanon and will host the Spartans at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at Ernest L. Stockton Field-Woody Hunt Stadium.