ROMEOVILLE, Ill. – Lewis' baseball team completed its three-game sweep of Rockhurst with 12-2 win in eight innings on Monday afternoon at Standard Bank Stadium in Crestwood, Ill. The Flyers improve to 18-18 overall on the season and 13-11 in Great Lakes Valley Conference play while the Hawks fall to 8-27, 5-19 GLVC.

"Very good win today," Lewis head baseball coach Tim McDonough said. "Once again we executed all phases of the game well and good things happen when you get good pitching, timely hitting, clean defense and aggressive base running all clicking together."

The game was scoreless until the fourth inning when Matt McCauley (Oakville, Mo./St. John Vianney) hit a grand slam to put Lewis on top.

"Matt's blast was huge because we felt like we had their guy on the ropes but just couldn't get a big hit with runners on," McDonough said. "I think everyone relaxed a little at that point and we did a good job vs their bullpen in adding on runs."

Rockhurst got a run back in the fifth and added another in the seventh to cut the Flyer lead in half.

Lewis regained its four run lead in the home half of the seventh. Ryan Schefske (Lombard, Ill./Glenbard East) homered to left to make it 5-2 and then later in the inning, Matt Verdun (Homer Glen, Ill./St. Rita) singled to drive in Anthony Rios (Lemont, Ill./St. Laurence).

The Flyers put the game away in the eighth scoring six runs on six hits. Verdun had the big hit in the inning driving in two runs with a double to left.

Lewis outhit the Hawks 13-to-4 in the contest and were led by Verdun, Rios, Brandon Post (Elk Grove Village, Ill./Elk Grove) and Connor Rutherford (DePere, Wis./DePere) with two apiece.

"I felt Matt had really good at-bats today and Rios has been swinging a hot bat as well," McDonough said.

Brad Littleton (Coal City, Ill./) improved to 3-2 allowing two runs on four hits with nine strikeouts in seven innings pitched.

"Brad continues to get better and better with each start and that will be huge for us moving forward as we get into the stretch run," McDonough said. "He had swing and miss stuff today."

The Flyers return to the diamond on Tuesday taking on Parkside in a doubleheader at Brennan Field beginning at 12 p.m.