ROMEOVILLE, Ill. – The Lewis Flyer baseball used a big first inning to defeat Purdue Northwest 13-3 in seven innings on Thursday afternoon at Brennan Field. The Flyers won for the fifth time in their last six games to improve to 15-19-1 on the season.

Lewis sent 13 batters to the plate in its half of the first scoring 10 runs on eight hits. Neal Tyrell (Minooka, Ill./Minooka), Branden Post, Ethan Bloom (Schaumburg, Ill./Hoffman Estates) and Troy Hajdukovic (Palatine, Ill./Fremd) each drove in a run with singles. Connor Rutherford (DePere, Wis./DePere) made it 7-0 with a double to right to score Hajdukovic. Trayvon Johnson (Berkeley, Ill./St. Joseph's) capped the inning with a three-run homer to right.

The Flyers added to their lead in the fourth. Anthony Cavalieri (Western Springs, Ill./Fenwick) opened the inning with a single, went to third on Johnson's double to right and scored on a sacrifice fly to left off the bat of Post.

The Pride (14-15) got on the board in the fifth on an RBI single from Hunter Thorn but Charlie Wright (Lemont, Ill./Lemont) was able to avoid further damage getting an inning ending double play.

Lewis added to its lead in the sixth on a two-run pinch hit home run to right field off the bat of Kyle Kane (Westchester, Ill./Nazareth). Purdue Northwest scored twice in the seventh on a wild pitch and a ground out to second to make it 13-3.

Nine Flyers recorded a hit in the contest led by Rutherford, Cavalieri and Johnson with two hits each. Johnson drove in three runs while Post and Kane had two RBIs each. Wright held the Pride to one run on five hits with three strikeouts to pick up his first win of the season.

Lewis plays its final home games of the regular season this weekend taking on 25^th ranked Bellarmine in a four-game series beginning on Saturday afternoon at 12 p.m.