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LISLE, Ill. - Surviving a weather delay of over two hours in the second contest, the Benedictine University baseball team swept away Rockford on Sunday.

The Eagles opened with a 6-0 victory and followed suit by rallying to an 8-2 decision despite storms in the second contest.

Benedictine wasted no time in game one, scoring four runs. Tim Hendricks led off the game with a double and scored with one away on a single from Ryan Mullin. Kyle Bock broke open the game with a two out, two-run double. Bock scored later on an error. Mullin extended the lead to 5-0 in the second with a two out RBI single.

Ryan Rickert rode the early wave, working seven blank innings. Rickert scattered five hits, walked one, and struck out five. Dylan Smith finished off the contest with two blank innings. Mullin logged three hits in the opening win while Tim Hendricks and Bock picked up two each.

Rockford built a 2-0 lead early in the second game with runs in the first and fourth but did not score again. Benedictine pulled within a single tally with a two out Mike Luschen RBI single in the fourth. The Eagles finally broke through before the weather with three runs in the sixth. Max Oppenheimer delivered a two-run single to put Benedictine ahead 3-2. Matthew Higgs would add an RBI single. Storms rolled through before the bottom of the seventh, causing a delay of over two hours. Benedictine left no doubt with a four run seventh to put the game away.

Cody Netzel earned the win in relief, tossing 1.2 hitless innings. Tim Feeley came on following the delay to work the final two innings for the save. Higgs, Bock, Kevin Hendricks, and Luschen collected two hits apiece. Hendricks scored three times.

Benedictine (20-14, 14-4) travels to Wheaton on Tuesday night.