The Raven baseball team pushed their winning streak to eight straight over the first two games of their weekend four-game homestead against Peru State College on Saturday before dropping the second half of the series on Sunday.

Benedictine (14-13, 10-4 HAAC) swept Saturday's doubleheader over Peru State (15-15, 8-8 HAAC) 6-5 and 9-4 before the Bobcat bats came alive on Sunday to pull even on the weekend with 10-1 and 16-3 wins.

In game one Saturday, Benedictine sent Adam Burns (Soph., Overland Park) to the hill coming off his first HAAC Pitcher of the Week award for his efforts during the Baker series.

Burns threw his second consecutive complete game as the Ravens earned a comeback win. He finished with six strikeouts while giving up four earned runs off 12 hits to move to 4-3 on the season.

After going up 2-0, Benedictine allowed four unanswered runs before pulling even with a two-run fifth inning. Benedictine added a run in the sixth to take a 5-4 lead before Peru State answered with a run in the seventh to force the Ravens to bat.

In the seventh inning, Alan Burns (Sr., Overland Park) hit a sacrifice fly to right field to score pinch runner Jerome Roehm (Fr., Hutchinson) and give the Ravens their first win of the series.

Benedictine had three extra base hits at the plate with second baseman Ben Raun (Jr., Lincoln, Neb.) and third baseman Paul Heit (Fr., Overland Park) picking up a double. Tim Yeargain (Sr., St. Louis) added a pinch-hit double while Raun and center fielder Ben Loughman (Sr., Lenexa) each finished with two hits. Heit finished 3 for 3.

In game two, John Scofield (Soph., Grandview, Mo.) earned the start on the hill for the Ravens. Benedictine staked Scofield to a 5-0 lead after the first inning and never looked back as he improved to 2-2 on the season.

Scofield threw the first four innings of the game, giving up three earned runs off six hits before Brett Slobodzian (Sr., Platte City, Mo.) threw the final three innings in relief.

At the plate the Ravens belted out 12 hits which led to their season high 9-run effort.

First baseman Sean O'Grady (Sr., San Jose) went 3 for 3 with two RBIs, three runs scored, a double and capped off the Ravens scoring with a solo home run in the sixth to push Benedictine ahead by five runs.

Right field Gordan Weliver (Sr., Englewood, Colo.) and catcher Patrick Waselth (Soph., Tulsa) each went 2 for 2 at the plate with Walseth recording three RBIs.

On Sunday, Benedictine sent Derek Surdez (Sr., Vermillion) and John Huber (Sr., Olathe) to the hill for the start.

Surdez threw five and one-third innings to suffer a game-one loss while Huber threw four innings in game two to suffer the loss.

O'Grady recorded a double at the plate while Yeargain drove in the Ravens lone run in game one with a sacrifice fly that scored Brenden Watamamiuk (Soph., Westlock, Alberta) in the bottom of the first.

In the series finale, the Ravens were held hitless through three and one-third innings as Peru State pitcher Marshall Klontz faced the minimum until Watamamiuk broke up the perfect game bid and no-hitter with a single in the fourth.

Watamamiuk's single sparked a Raven rally at the plate which led to three runs but Benedictine couldn't push across anymore runs over the remaining innings against Klontz.

Yeargain capped off a solid weekend with his first triple of the season that drove in two of the Ravens three runs in the sixth and later scored what proved to be Benedictine's final run.

The Ravens remain at home for a HAAC cross divisional doubleheader at 1 p.m. Monday against Graceland University.