Moline, Ill. - A day after snapping Augustana's ten-game winning streak, the Thunder baseball team ran the Vikings losing streak to three games as Wheaton swept the Vikings with a 4-3 victory on Saturday afternoon. The series wrapped up with Wheaton winning all three games by one run after wins of 1-0 and 4-3 on Friday afternoon. Wheaton's record now stands at 21-10 overall and 11-8 in the CCIW while the Vikings fell to 22-8-1 overall and 11-4 in the conference. Wheaton will travel to Carthage on Wednesday for the rubber match of a three-game series with the Red Men beginning at 6 pm.

Wheaton tallied its four runs on 11 hits with one defensive error. Christian Bolhuis limited the Vikings to three runs, two earned, on eight hits with five strikeouts. Caleb Selk and Jacob Garrity each provided a perfect inning of relief with one strikeout each before David Solfelt earned his third save of the season with a perfect ninth inning. Sam Cregen took his first loss of the season for the Vikings, surrendering three runs on six hits in three innings of work.

Augustana took the first lead in the bottom of the second inning, taking advantage of a one-out error to push across an unearned run. Wheaton answered in the top of the third inning when Nick Mailman and Ben Brittain started the inning with singles before Joel Pierce drove a double to deep center field to tie the game. Pierce and Brittain came in to score later in the inning on a two-out double to deep left field by Sam Reichert, pushing the lead to 3-2.

After the Vikings cut the lead in half with a run in the bottom of the third, Wheaton responded in the next inning after Luke Roudabush reached on a walk and moved around to third on an errant pickoff throw. Mailman followed with a single to center to put Wheaton ahead 4-2.

The Vikings pulled within a run in the bottom of the fifth inning and threatened to pull even in the bottom of the sixth inning, but Bolhuis stranded a pair of runners with an inning-ending strikeout to keep the Thunder ahead. The Wheaton bullpen shut it down from there with Selk, Garrity, and Solfelt retiring the final nine Viking hitters of the day to preserve the sweep.

Mailman, Brittain, and Reichert each had multi-hit days with Reichert driving in two runs and Mailman scoring once and driving in a run.