ROMEOVILLE, Ill. – Lewis' baseball team rode an 11-run second inning to a 15-2 win over McKendree on Thursday afternoon at Brennan Field. The Flyers improve to 9-8, 7-6 GLVC while the Bearcats fall to 10-7, 3-6 GLVC.

"I thought we did a great job setting a tone for the weekend," Lewis head baseball coach Tim McDonough said. "It's just one game and we need to come out and have the same approach tomorrow."

Lewis sent 15 batters to the plate in the second inning recording 10 hits and two walks. 12 straight hitters reached base safely in the inning. Julian Everett (Frankfort, Ill/Lincoln Way East) opened the scoring launching a solo home run to right with one out in the inning. After a single by Austin Tittle (Lemont, Ill./Lemont), Kevin Barry (Bartlett, Ill./South Elgin) made it 3-0 with a home run to right field. Dalton Crowder (Romeoville, Ill./Plainfield East) followed with a triple to left center and back-to-back walks to Patrick Keaty (South Elgin, Ill./South Elgin) and Joe Preusser (Orland Park, Ill./Brother Rice) loaded the bases for Michael O'Brien (Joliet, Ill./Joliet Catholic).

O'Brien drove in all three runs splitting the gap in left center with a triple to make it 6-0. Anthony Rios (Lemont, Ill./St. Laurence) followed with a double down the right field to drive in O'Brien. Jackson Dvorak (New Lenox, Ill./Providence Catholic) reached on an infield single and then Everett drove in both Rios and Dvorak with a double to left center. Tittle followed with a two-run homer to right to make it 11-0.

"I couldn't be happier about the second inning," McDonough said. "Those don't happen very often, but it was good to see the lineup locked in like we were today."

The Flyers took advantage of two walks and a wild pitch in the third inning to plate two more runs on Dvorak's double to left center.

McKendree got its two runs in the fourth inning on Joe Copeland's two-run homer to right that also scored Jordan Richardson.

Lewis tacked on single runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Keaty drove in Crowder with a sac fly in the fourth inning and in the fifth inning Tittle drove in his third run of the game with a groundout to second that scored Dvorak.

The Flyers pounded out 12 hits in the contest. In addition to the three home runs they also hit two triples and four doubles. O'Brien, Dvorak, Everett, Tittle and Barry had two hits apiece in the contest.

Brad Littleton (Coal City, Ill./) went the distance in this one allowing two runs on five hits and struck out a career-high 13 batters in the contest against three walks to even his record at 3-3.

"Brad did a great job today and had wipeout stuff all day and he did what a number one needs to do," McDonough said.

Lewis and the Bearcats continue their four-game weekend series with a doubleheader on Friday beginning at noon at Brennan Field.