AZUSA, Calif. -- Saturday belonged to Derek Wohlers and Brad McKinney. Today, it was Josh Grant's turn.

The junior college transfer, who was making just his third career start, hurled Azusa Pacific's third straight complete game in lifting the Cougars to a crucial 7-0 GSAC win over The Master's College.

The win moves the Cougars to 27-15 overall, 12-10 GSAC and brings them to within one-half game of the Mustangs for the fourth and final playoff spot with 6 games to go. The Mustangs fall to 20-16, 12-9.

In his second straight impressive start, Grant threw a dominating 9 innings, scattering 5 hits, none in the final 3 innings, to pick up the first shutout of his career as well as his first-ever complete game. He threw 7 solid innings in his last start, a 9-7 win over the NAIA's No. 3-ranked Lewis-Clark St. (Idaho).

Not even a 20-minute power-outage could slow Grant, who struck out 4 and walked just 1. He allowed just one runner to reach third as the Cougars' got their second straight impressive win over The Master's. Three weeks ago, McKinney threw a complete-game in a 7-1 win over the Mustangs.

The game began as a pitcher's dual between Grant and the Mustang's Jake Ebner until the Cougars got to Ebner for a run in the third. Jake Haaker finished 2-for-3 and led off the third with a single to center. Courtesy runner Chris Cardinale moved to second on a wild pitch, took third on Stephen Vogt's fly out to right and later scored on Ebner's second wild pitch of the inning to give the Cougars what turned out to be the only run they needed.

The Cougars added another run in the fifth on an RBI-double by Vogt, who in his first at-bat extended his hitting streak to 24 games. Again, Haaker and Cardinale factored in the run as Haaker drew a one-out walk, and courtesy runner Cardinale advanced to second on a balk to set up Vogt.

The Master's biggest threat came in the sixth when they were trailing just 2-0. Philip Seston, who finished with 2 hits, delivered a 1-out laser to left that got by Nick Mercado and allowed Seston to advance to second. He then stole third, but was left stranded after Grant struck out Brett Jaime and then induced Tim Murphy into an inning-ending fly out to right. The Mustangs had just one more base runner the rest of the night when Jaime drew a 1-out walk in the ninth as Grant retired 11 of the game's final 12 batters.

Cameron Radonich was 2-for-4, and he gave the Cougars a 4-0 cushion with a 2-run shot in the Cougars' 3-run sixth that chased Ebner. Coba Canales added an RBI single in the sixth, and Billy Gwinn was 3-for-4 and banged his third homer of the season, a 2-run shot in the seventh, that gave the Cougars their 7-0 lead.