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MOLINE, Ill. – Augustana banged out 34 hits and Coach Greg Wallace got solid pitching performances from several hurlers Saturday, as the Vikings extended their winning streak to 10 games with a 15-1, 12-3 doubleheader sweep of Rockford at Swanson Stadium/Brunner Field. Augustana is now 13-3 on the year, while the Regents dropped to 6-6.
 
AUGUSTANA 15, ROCKFORD 1
 
Seth Davis (Mullen HS, Aurora, Colo.) and Walter White (East Peoria HS, East Peoria, Ill.) allowed just five hits and one unearned run in Saturday's opener and the offense exploded for 10 runs in the bottom of the fourth.
 
The Regents actually jumped in front in the top of the second. Bobby Barrera led off by reaching on catcher's interference, the second time in as many innings that the Vikings were called for the same infraction. Barrera eventually came around to score the game's first run on another Augustana error.
 
The Vikings tied it in the third. Kyle Lenihan (Romeoville HS, Romeoville, Ill.) drove a one-out single through the left side, moved around to third on an errant pickoff attempt and scored on a sacrifice fly to center off the bat of freshman Tommy Kiriakopoulos (Huntley HS, Lake in the Hills, Ill.). They got two more in the third to take the lead. Junior Trace Gingerich (Sherrard HS, Sherrard, Ill.) had an RBI single.
 
Augustana broke the game open with a huge fourth. Three straight hits started things and senior Danny Fifer (Lincoln-Way West HS, New Lenox, Ill.) lined a two-run double. Gingerich added a two-run single, Lenihan, Kiriakopoulos and senior Brandon Jasper (Central HS, DeWitt, Iowa) RBI singles, junior Alex Fluehr (Harlem HS, Loves Park, Ill.) an RBI double and junior Nathan Gray (Rock Island HS, Rock Island, Ill.) a two-run double. When the frame was over, the Vikings led 13-1. An RBI double by Cayton Wallace (Assumption HS, Rock Island, Ill.) and Fluehr's RBI single made it 15-1 after six. The game was shortened to six and a half innings by the mercy rule.
 
Meanwhile, Davis cruised through five innings before exiting in favor of White. The senior left-hander allowed just two hits and no earned runs, fanning seven and walking one to improve to 5-0 on the year. White threw a pair of scoreless innings and struck out three. Fluehr paced a 17-hit attack, going 4-for-4 with two runs and two RBI. Gingerich was 3-for-4 with two scored and three driven in. Four Vikings had two hits apiece.
 
AUGUSTANA 12, ROCKFORD 3
 
Augustana starter Kyle McGinley (Mullen HS, Denver, Colo.) had a no-hitter through five and a third innings in the nightcap.
 
After taking the lead with an unearned run in the first, the Vikings made it 3-0 in the third on John Swiderski's (Geneva HS, Geneva, Ill.) two-run single. The Augustana catcher added a two-run triple in a five-run fourth inning, when Fluehr also had a two-run double.
 
Rockford's first hit off McGinley was Cole Logemann's one-out, two-run homer following a walk in the sixth. The Regents got a run off the Viking bullpen in the seventh to draw within 8-3, but the hosts put four on the board in the bottom half.
 
Relievers Cooper SantAmour (Moline HS, Moline, Ill.) and Darwin Townsend (Libertyville HS, Libertyville, Ill.) struck out the side in the eighth and ninth, respectively to close things out.
 
McGinley improved to 4-1 on the season with the win. He allowed just two hits and two runs in six innings. He fanned six.
 
Gray, Swiderski and senior Jacques Camalick (Hinsdale Central HS, Burr Ridge, Ill.) each had three hits and Jasper and Fifer added two apiece. Swiderski drove in five runs and Jasper scored four times.
 
Augustana enters CCIW play next weekend, taking on North Central in a three-game series. On Saturday, March 28, the teams will play a twin bill in Naperville, Illinois beginning at 1:00 p.m.