MOSES LAKE — Daulton Kvenvold finally slid in under a tag safely, having been thrown out at second base twice, eluding the sweep of Blue Mountain catcher Dustin Durflinger to score in the bottom of the seventh inning in the second game of Wednesday’s NWAC doubleheader.

The rhubarb that followed was almost comical. All of what was said was drowned out by the exhaust of the F-18 circling above as part of an aircraft carrier drill at Grant County International Airport. But the flailing arms and jawing made it clear Blue Mountain (18-16, 7-7 NWAC East) clearly felt they’d been wronged.

But one man’s ceiling is another man’s floor and it all just emphasized that one team’s bad day doesn’t mean anything when you’re on a roll.

The No. 8 Big Bend Vikings (21-11, 9-5 NWAC East) swept Blue Mountain in dominating fashion, winning the opener with nine runs on 16 hits, including a solo home run by Cody Banks, to win 9-6. They hit stride when they regained the lead with a three-run barrage in the seventh inning and rolled it into a 6-2 victory in the late game for their third home sweep this month.

In the opener, Trevor Luckey went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI and Nate English had a three-hit day. Ben Albrecht went 3-for-5 and Nic Metcalf had a pinch-hit home run in the late game .

But the day belonged to the Viking outfield that made the spectacular look routine and the spectacular look, well spectacular.

“The chicks dig it,” left fielder Daulton Kvenvold said with a smile.

Kvenvold, the sophomore from West Jordan, Utah, turned his back to the infield and chased down a line shot to the fence, making the over-the-shoulder catch at the warning track in the opener.

Right fielder Sam Fagerness is new to the position, but it didn’t look like it as he laid out to rob a base hit to the right-center power alley in the late game. Both Kvenvold and Fagerness rely on the defensive help from center fielder Nate English, but the second-year player from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, wasn’t to be outdone. English made a diving catch on a tailing shot to center.

“I lose it off the bat, so I rely on my center fielder Nate English. He’ll say back, back,” Kvenvold said. “I trust Nate because it helps me out. On that one to the fence, it scares me sometimes, but I try to keep my eye on the ball and haul it in the best I can.”

Fagerness laid out for a spectacular grab in the late game.

“I don’t have a whole lot of experience in the outfield, so my first step is always back,” the outfielder from Napavine said. “I have one of the best center fielders in our league to back me up, so my mindset is to go after every ball off the bat.”

English proved to be more than a traffic cop in center field on Wednesday when he closed quickly on a diving shot at his feet for the grab.

“Our pitchers do a great job of locating their pitches. So with two strikes I was able to cheat over to the gap,” English explained. “As soon as I saw the pitch was outside, I had an idea it was going to be opposite field and got a great jump on the ball.”

Columbia Basin (18-14, 6-8) took two from Spokane (23-9, 10-4) on Tuesday, so things at the top of the NWAC East are tightening up. The Vikings, who moved to No. 8 in the Coaches Poll, have a chance to make a move with East-leading Yakima Valley (30-6, 12-2) coming to town on Saturday.