The Buena Vista baseball team took care of its business on Friday night against Loras College, and as a result have secured at least a share of the 2014 Iowa Conference regular season heading into Saturday's regular season finale, following wins of 5-0 and 7-4.

Senior Jon Ringblom got more than enough run support in the opener and picked up his second complete-game shutout of the year. He allowed just seven singles and struck out 10.

BVU got on the board with a pair of runs in the second.  Tanner Truesdell tripled to right after the rightfielder tried to come up with a sliding catch, but the ball got passed him and rolled towards the fence.  Jeremy Lambert scored all the way from first on the play for the game's first score.  Ryan Titman then doubled to right center to plate Truesdell.

Brandon Wessels then tripled to left center to start to score Neil Marshall in the third to make it a 3-0 contest.  Joe Paletta then doubled to left center to score Wessels before Lambert added a double of his own to score Paletta and make it a five-run cushion.

Ringblom improves to 6-2 overall on the year and saw his league-leading ERA during conference play go down to a stellar 0.90.

Marshall had two of the team's seven hits in the contest and also stole one base.

The Beavers did just enough damage offensive in the middle innings in game two to hold of the Duhawks.

Weston Foxx broke a scoreless game in the third with a sacrifice fly before the Beavers scored three times in the fourth and two more in the fifth.  Bryce Wessels doubled home a run in the fourth before Titman later tripled to dead center.  Nick Schlecht missed hitting a home run late in the inning, but did record a sacrifce fly of his own.

The Duhawks had cut the deficit to 4-2 with a pair of runs in the fifth before Titman and Truesdell each posted RBI's in the fifth to make it a 6-2 game.

Two more runs for Loras (17-19, 13-13 IIAC) in the eighth made it 6-4, but BVU came back with an insurance run in the bottom half.

Scott Harris got the start on the hill for the Beavers and went the first six innings, allowing two runs on three hits, struck out 11 and walked two.  He now has 24 strikeouts over his last 14.1 innings.

Lucas Hadway came on and worked the next 1.1 innings and surrendered two runs on three hits and struck out one.  Junior Ian Grigsby came on and closed things out, striking out one over his 1.2 innings of work.  He also picks up his seventh save of the year, moving him within one of matching the program's single-season record.

Marshall addded two more hits for the Beavers, as did Bryce Wessels.  Schlecht also added a run and scored twice.

Buena Vista improves to 31-7 overall (20-6 IIAC) and will need to win just one game on Saturday to secure the Iowa Conference title outright.  They earned at least a share on Friday due to Wartburg's doubleheader split at Central.