Carol Stream, Ill. - The Wheaton offense pounded out 14 hits including five extra base hits en route to an 11-1 run-rule victory over Benedictine University on Tuesday night at Lee Pfund Stadium. With the win, Wheaton moves to 20-16 on the season while Benedictine falls to 20-15. The teams will meet again on Wednesday night at 6 PM at Benedictine.

Wheaton scored 11 runs on 14 hits with one error while the Eagles scored one run on six hits with two errors. Wheaton's John Schmitz allowed one run on six hits with three walks and two strikeouts in a complete game effort. Nick Diessner took the loss for the Eagles allowing seven runs (six earned) on eight hits with no walks and three strikeouts in 4.1 innings. Spencer Lehman allowed just one hit with two strikeouts in 1.2 innings and Jake Andrews allowed four runs (three earned) on five hits with two walks and a strikeout in a third of an inning.
 Wheaton took the lead in the bottom of the second inning when the Thunder opened the inning with a Trey Martin triple followed by a Kyle Mellinger (PICTURED RIGHT) double. Michael Szalach's groundout later scored Mellinger to give Wheaton a 2-0 lead.

The Thunder then blew the game open with a five-run third inning that started with a towering home run by Johnny Peltz. An RBI single by Justin Swider later in the inning pushed the lead to 4-0 before Martin delivered the big blow with a three-run home run that hooked around the left field foul pole and ended Diessner's night on the mound.

The Eagles cracked the scoreboard for their only run of the game in the top of the sixth but Schmitz limited the damaged by stranding two runners to end the inning. With storm clouds looming, Wheaton finished the game off in the bottom of the seventh inning by scoring four runs with just one out. Singles by Taylor Howe, Swider and Martin loaded the bases with no outs ahead of a two-run single by Mellinger. Two batters later, Martin scored on a passed ball and Matt Krause (PICTURED LEFT) came up with the final hit to plate Mellinger and give Wheaton the 11-1 run-rule victory.

Trey Martin was 4-4 on the night with three runs driven in and three runs scored. Martin was a double shy of his first career cycle. Swider, Mellinger, Peltz and Krause each had two hits along with at least one run scored and driven in.

Note Worthy: Tonight's game was originially scheduled for March 27...Trey Martin's home run was the 29th of his career...with his three runs scored Martin moved past Danny Pyne into fourth place in program history...the home run by Johnny Peltz was the first of his career...with two triples tonight, Wheaton is now eighth in Division III with 20 three-baggers...Wheaton scored double-digit runs for the first time since a 15-4 victory over Elmhurst on April 1, breaking a streak of 16 consecutive games with single digit runs