MALIBU, Calif. --- The Portland Pilots mustered only three hits as the No. 28 Pepperdine Waves defeated the Pilots 8-0 in the final game of a three-game West Coast Conference series on Sunday afternoon at Eddy D. Field Stadium. The Waves also topped Portland on Friday and Saturday for the sweep.

Portland drops to 13-30 overall and 2-13 in the WCC. The Waves recorded 14 hits and improve to 30-16 overall, 10-5 in the conference.

Pepperdine pitchers James Johnson (4-1) and Brett Hunter combined on the three-hitter. Johnson started and gave up two hits in 8.0 scoreless innings. He walked one and struck out one. Hunter allowed a hit in the ninth, while striking out three.

Portland starter Ari Ronick (3-5) gave up two runs on seven hits in 3.1 innings. Reliever Austin Dirkx gave up six runs on six hits in 4.1 innings. Reliever Josh Roberts pitched 0.1 of an inning.

Pepperdine scored its first two runs in the bottom of the third inning. With two outs and the bases loaded, Chase d’Arnaud knocked in two with a double down the left field line. Ronick then induced an inning-ending fly out by Justin Tellam.

The game remained 2-0 until the seventh. Danny Worth and d’Arnaud hit back-to-back doubles off of Dirkx to score a run.

Still 3-0 an inning later, Pepperdine scored five runs to put the game out of reach. With three runs already in, Danny Kelly capped the scoring with a two-run single up the middle off of Roberts.

Portland juniors Jesse Rodgers and Justin Ehlers and sophomore Cory Wiltshire each had a hit for Portland. Only once, in the top of the second inning, did the Pilots advance a runner past first base. Senior Nik Kosach, who had walked, advanced to third on Rodgers’ single to right field. Rodgers was then picked off at first to end the inning.

D’Arnaud led the way for Pepperdine with three RBI’s on two hits. Kelly knocked in two runs.

Neither team committed an error.

Portland’s next game is a non-conference contest at Washington on May 8. The Pilots and Huskies are slated to play at 6:30 at Husky Ballpark.