Lawrence High third baseman Morgan Byrn makes a play in the Lions' sweep by Olathe East on Thursday, May 1, 2014, at LHS.

Lawrence High catcher Audrina Hidalgo, right, steps on home plate for a force out against Olathe East on Thursday, May 1, 2014, at LHS.

It’s not as if this hasn’t happened before.

Back-to-back Class 6A state champion Olathe East, which has mostly steamrolled the rest of the Sunflower League’s softball programs for two years running, made Lawrence High its latest victim in a Hawks sweep Thursday at LHS.

Senior ace Allison Stewart added to her league-leading strikeout total — now 73 — by fanning 10 Lions in a 3-0 win, and O-East cranked out 15 hits in a 9-0 victory to finish the doubleheader.

“They’re a good team,” first-year Lawrence coach Joe Dee Tarbutton said. “When we did hit the ball hard and do some things right, they made plays.”

LHS junior pitcher Megan Sumonja only allowed five hits in the first game, but one was a solo home run cranked off Stewart’s bat in the fourth, and that would have been plenty, as the Lions only dinged Stewart for three hits — junior Kenzie Garvin went 2-for-3 — and just once had a runner reach third base.

While Lawrence (8-6 overall, 3-5 Sunflower League) fared slightly better against O-East’s Game 2 starter, freshman Hayley McGhee (seven innings, five hits, six strikeouts), the Hawks again only allowed one runner to advance to third base over seven innings.

Said Garvin, the speedy, slap-hitting right fielder who went 4-for-6 in the twinbill: “They had really solid defense against us.”

The Hawks (12-0, 7-0) have a bit of everything, actually. Tarbutton couldn’t get over the quality of their two arms, Stewart and McGhee.

“Pitchers hit their spots,” he said, adding the Lions had talked this week about patience at the plate. “It’s just so hard to lay off that.”

Garvin, who had half of Lawrence’s hits in the O-East sweep (Sophie Taylor and Morgan Byrn each had a single, while Marly Carmona went 2-for-3 in the second game), said the Lions never could find a rhythm in the batter’s box.

“They had very similar pitches,” Garvin said of Stewart and McGhee. “Both rise balls were very good.”

She noticed some little things about the Hawks, too.

“They seem like a family,” Garvin said, noting the players and coaches all held hands and had a routine for the national anthem. “You can tell that they’re all together. That’s what we’re trying to do this year.”

With six games left in the regular season, Tarbutton isn’t counting out his group.

“It’s time to win out,” he said. “We have a really good opportunity to control our own destiny now.”

Olathe East 3-9, Lawrence 0-0

O-East 000 110 1 — 3 5 1

Lawrence 000 000 0 — 0 3 2

W –Allison Stewart, 9-0. L — Megan Sumonja, 3-4.

2B — Taylor Officer, Elizabeth Leonard, O-East. HR — Stewart, O-East.

LHS highlights — Sumonja, 7 IP, 5 H, 4 K, 2 BB; Kenzie Garvin, 2-for-3, 2 SB; Sophie Taylor, 1-for-3, SB.

O-East 010 034 1 — 9 15 0

Lawrence 000 000 0 — 0 5 0

W — Hayley McGhee. L — Jolona Shield, 5-2.

2B — Kaylee Byers, Sayde Woten, O-East. 3B — Byers, O-East. HR — Officer, O-East.

LHS highlights — Garvin, 2-for-3; Marly Carmona, 2-for-3.