ROMEOVILLE, Ill. – The Lewis University baseball team completed its four-game sweep of No. 11 Davenport Sunday (April 6), winning 8-2 in the opener and rallied for a 10-6 win in the series finale. The win was the Flyers' ninth straight victory.
 
"The boys played really well all weekend," Lewis baseball coach Mike Vucsko said. "Everything started on the mound. We got three strong starts from (Dylan) Wolff, (Luke) Carlson and (Brendan) Lawry. Then in game four we made a lot of big pitches. Offensively, Friday we battled every at bat and grinded out runs. Today we swung the bats really well led by all the seniors. We still have 20 games left and we need to keep getting better every day."
 
TEAM RECORDS
Davenport 21-10 | Lewis 24-6
 
GAME 1: Lewis 8, No. 11 Davenport 2
 
SUMMARY
Davenport opened the scoring in the top of the second with a RBI single. The Flyers came back in the bottom of the third inning as George Bilecki (Chicago, Ill./Marist) crushed a three-run home run to center field to give the Flyers a 3-1 lead.
 
Chris McDevitt (Chicago, Ill./St. Rita) increased the lead to 5-1 in the bottom of the fourth with a single which drove home two runs. A few batters later it was déjà vu as Bilecki again came up with two runners on and again cleared the fence with a three-run homer to right field to make the score 8-1.
 
The Panthers scored a run in the top of the sixth but that would be it in the seven-inning contest.
 
Bilecki went 2-for-3 with six RBI, while McDevitt added two hits and two RBI. Brendan Lawry (Bolingbrook, Ill./Eckerd College) (6-0) earned the win, allowing five hits and two earned runs in six innings, striking out four. Jackson Bruno (Chicago, Ill./Notre Dame Prep) held the Panthers scoreless in the seventh.
 
GAME 2: Lewis 10, No. 11 Davenport 6
 
SUMMARY
Each team scored a run in the first inning as Bilecki drove home his seventh run of the day on a sacrifice fly. Davenport scored runs in the second and third innings to take a 3-1 lead.
 
The Flyers scored in the bottom of the fifth off a Jason Krol (Chicago, Ill./St. Laurence) groundout to make it 3-2. Davenport came back with three runs in the top of the sixth to make it 6-2.
 
Lewis battled back in the bottom half of the inning as Cole Nelson (St. Charles, Ill/Lenoir Rhyne) homered and a McDevitt single later in the inning drove in a run to make it 6-4. The seventh inning belonged to the Flyers as they scored six runs to take control of the game.
 
A Jackson Hunley (Sun Prairie, Wis./Sun Prairie) single scored a run to make it 6-5. Tyler Phommachanhom (Plainfield, Ill/Parkland CC) drove in two runs with a single to give the Flyers their first lead of the game at 7-6. A McDevitt single extended the lead to 8-6.  A passed ball scored a ninth run and Bilecki finished off the scoring with a RBI single.
 
Daniel Rosado (Burbank, Ill.) came on in the eighth inning and shut the Panthers down over the final two innings, allowing just one hit to earn the save. Kaleb Schulist (Shantytown, WI/UW Parkside) (2-0) came on in relief to pick up the win.
 
McDevitt went 4-for-4 with three runs scored and two RBI, while Phommachanhom went 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBI.
 
UP NEXT
The Flyers host Purdue Northwest Tuesday (April 8) in a doubleheader at 1 p.m.
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
Lewis will honor the 1974, 1975 and 1976 Championship Teams on Saturday, April 12 against Quincy. To sign up visit:
https://www.alumni.lewisu.edu/2025-Baseball-50th-Alumni

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