The Shorter Hawks (11-1, 1-1) where able to sweep the weekend against the Oakland City Mighty Oaks (1-4, 0-0) on Sunday. Shorter's offense kept on trucking from their performance in game 2, and the pitching staff kept up the good work like they had done all weekend.
 
Shorter got on the board first in the bottom of the second on an RBI from Justin Guyton ground out that scored Matt Christian, and they added another on an RBI single from Jakob Woods that scored Aaron Reardon. The score after two inning was 2-0 in favor of Shorter.
 
Oakland City got on the board in the top of the third inning when Devan Franz hit an RBI triple to right center that scored Tanner Singleton, and it made the score 2-1 still in favor of Shorter.
 
The Hawks added another run in the bottom of the third inning when Matt Christian hit an RBI single to right field scoring Mike Avendano, making the score 3-1.
 
The Shorter offense exploded in the bottom of the fifth inning to pretty much put the game out of reach. Woods picked up another RBI when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, which scored Andy Ferreiro from third. Kaleeq Branning then launched a grand slam, his third of the year, over the center field fence. Ferriro added an RBI single later in the inning, on his second at bat of the inning, that scored Bailey Gerstner. Avendano scored on a wild pitch a couple of batters later, and Guyton added a 2 RBI single to left to bring the score to 12-1 Shorter after 5 innings.
 
The Shorter offense stayed hot in the sixth inning as well, Gerstner got the sixth started for the Hawks when he sent a ball over the fence in right field for a two run homerun, Gerstner's first home run of the year. Later in the inning Peter "Alex" Wittman drove in Ferreiro on a double to right, and Luis Acevedo scored Christian and Wittman on his 2 RBI single to center. The score after 6 innings saw Shorter with the lead 17-1.
 
Oakland City would score another run in the top of the seventh on an RBI ground out to second base by Tyler Roberts, and that would bring the score to the final score of 17-2.
 
Jaydon Berry got the win in relief for the Hawks throwing 2 innings, giving up 0 runs, and giving up 1 hit. Dominic Murgo, Ethan Hawthorne, Zach Courtwright, and Ivan Nunez all threw an inning a piece out of the bullpen.
 
Devan Franz took the loss for Oakland City throwing 3.1 innings, giving up 3 runs, all earned, and striking out 3.
 
The Hawks will be back in action on Tuesday February 25^th when they travel to Milledgeville, Georgia to take on the Georgia College Bobcats. First pitch is set for 4:00 pm eastern time. The Hawks will be back at home on Friday and Saturday, February 28-29, when the welcome the University of West Georgia to town for their first home conference series of the year.