MT. PLEASANT, S.C. -- Ryan West pitched six innings of shutout ball to key the College of Charleston  to a 6-1 victory over Furman in Southern Conference baseball action on Sunday at the Ballpark at Patriots Point.

The win helped the Cougars (21-18, 12-8 SoCon) avoid a series sweep at the hands of the Paladins (21-17, 9-12 SoCon), who won Friday's suspended game, 11-9, and Saturday's regularly scheduled contest, 6-5.

West (3-1) checked Furman's bats over the first six frames, limiting the Paladins to just four singles and no walks while chalking up 10 strikeouts.  He got all the runs he would need in the third when Gunnar Heidt stroked a two-out, two-run single up the middle off of Furman starting pitcher Jake Wolff (2-2).

The Cougars added three more runs in the fifth on a Blake Butler RBI single that chased Wolff, and with a two-run single to right field by Ben Boykin that drove home Devon Reed and Butler.

Furman scratched across its lone run in the eighth on an Alex Abrams single that scored Will Muzika to make it a 5-1 game, but the Cougars answered in the bottom of the inning with a pinch hit RBI single by Bradley Goodson.

The College of Charleston tallied 11 hits in the contest, including two each by Butler, Heidt, and Ryan Welke, who led off the Cougar third with a single and scored the game's first run, and later doubled and scored in the fifth.

Jordan Simpson had two of Furman's seven hits.  The Paladins stranded 10 runners.

Wolff was charged with the loss after allowing five runs on six hits over four innings.  He walked one and struck out three.

Furman returns to action on Tuesday when it takes on USC Upstate at Fluor Field in a 7:00 p.m. game that is a home contest for the Spartans.