ROMEOVILLE, Ill. – The sixth ranked Lewis women's volleyball team extended its winning streak to six matches with a sweep of Quincy on Saturday afternoon at Neil Carey Arena. The Flyers improve to 12-1, 2-0 in the GLVC while the Hawks drop to 5-10, 0-2 GLVC.

Lewis used a 7-2 run midway through the opening set to break an 11-all tie to take a five-point lead on a kill from Ava Venema (Westmont, Ill./Timothy Christian). The Flyers stretched the lead to 23-16 after an error from Emily Rehagen. Quincy refused to go quietly scoring three straight points to cut Lewis' lead to 23-19 after a kill from Sarah Brown.

The Flyers scored the final two points to take the opener 25-19. Lewis hit only .195 in the first stanza but held the Hawks to a negative .024 attack percentage.

The Flyers led wire-to-wire in the middle frame building a 13-point lead in the stanza on its way to a 25-12 win. Alexandra Preuss (Elmhurst, Ill./York) and Colleen Wilhelm (Euclid, Ohio/Lake Catholic) led Lewis with four kills apiece in the set. The Flyers hit .467 in the frame with 14 kills against zero errors in 30 attempts.

The third set saw eight ties and two lead changes. Lewis gained some separation thanks to a 10-2 run that broke a tie at 10. Preuss had three aces in the run while Megan Schlechte (Strasburg, Ill./Stewardson-Strasburg) added a pair of kills. The Flyers went onto win the frame 25-15 to complete the sweep.

Venema led the offensive attack with eight kills while Preuss added seven kills and Schlechte and Wilhelm finished with six kills each. Mikah Freppon (Cold Spring, Ky./Newport Central Catholic) dished out 28 assists and Ronni Katarzynski (Winfield, Ill./West Chicago) had 20 digs.

Lewis finished the match with a hitting percentage of .290 (37k/8e/100ta). The Flyers also had five aces, 50 digs and seven total blocks.

Lewis concludes its homestand on Tuesday hosting former GLVC rival Parkside at 7 p.m. at Neil Carey Arena.