St. Ambrose got back to .500 by sweeping a doubleheader at Calumet by scores of 13-0 and 20-4 Friday in Whiting, Ind. The Bees banged out a total of 35 hits in the two games.

Twenty-one of those hits came in the opener.

Jeremy Conforti led the way, going 4-for-5 with two RBIs and three runs scored. His two-run home run in the first inning started a five-run frame for the Bees.

Joey Fitzgerald Jr. finished 3-for-4 with a home run, three RBIs and a pair of runs scored. Brandon Roth was 3-for-5 with two RBIs and two runs scored. Filip Milatovic also had three hits.

Brandon Matias collected two hits while Daniel Laughery, Jake Pauley, Noah Chase, Aaron Vertuno, Caden Thode and Kevin Niedzwiedz each had one hit. Thode drove in three runs, while Ethan McCombs scored twice.

Leading 5-0 after one, SAU tacked on two runs in the second then scored three in both the fifth and sixth innings.

Brad Niedzwiedz threw a complete-game shutout. He allowed seven hits while striking out six.

In the second game, after a Pauley ground out scored Laughery in the top of the first, Calumet came back with four runs in the bottom of the inning.

A Kevin Niedzwiedz sacrifice fly cut the deficit to 4-2 in the second and a two-run home run from Roth tied the game in the fourth. The Bees took the lead later in the inning and added two more runs in the fifth. St. Ambrose broke things open with a 10-run sixth inning, capped by a Matias three-run homer.

Thode hit a two-run shot and Vertuno added a two-run double in the seventh.

Roth, Thode and Kevin Niedzwiedz each recorded a pair of hits in the second game. Laughery, McCombs, Conforti, Vertuno, Matias, Fitzgerald, Milatovic and Bryce Vorwald also had hits.

Joe Turek earned the win after striking out nine over five innings. Hayden Kingsbury registered three strikeouts over the final two frames.

The teams will complete their four-game series with a doubleheader at Black Hawk College in Moline, Ill., Saturday.