FLORENCE, S.C. - The Georgia Southwestern baseball team came up on the short end of a pitching duel in the Peach Belt Conference weekend series finale on Sunday afternoon at Sparrow Stadium, 3-0, as the schools combined for nine hits - all singles - in the ballgame.

After winning their first 19 games when holding opponents to five or fewer runs this spring, GSW was handed its second loss in as many games with such a pitching performance and saw its overall record this spring to slip to 23-23 and 6-21 in the PBC. Francis Marion improved to 26-20 overall, 13-14 in conference play.

The Patriots scored all of the runs they would need in the third inning as they capitalized on a GSW throwing error and eventually pushed across a pair of unearned runs.

The Hurricanes were struck out 13 times in the game and did not put a man in scoring position until the ninth.

FMU starting pitcher Matt Kelley (6-4) kept GSW in check all afternoon as he went the distance, scattered four hits and did not walk a batter.

GSW starter Dylan Brown (4-1) did all he could to hang with Kelley, but suffered his first defeat of the season despite throwing a complete game, holding the Patriots to five hits and three walks. Brown struck out five and faced the minimum in three innings.

Antonio Pino of FMU was the only batter from either side to record multiple hits as he finished the game 2-for-4 with an RBI.

The Hurricanes play their final non-conference game of the season on Tuesday when they travel to Carrollton, Ga., to face West Georgia at 5 p.m.