Gerry Mayhew put on a show in Wednesday’s rematch with Lehigh Valley, racking up a hat trick to propel the Checkers to a 4-1 win.

The veteran forward broke open the scoring with a power-play tally in the first – a goal that Lehigh Valley responded to shortly after to push the game into the first intermission deadlocked.

Mayhew took over in the middle frame, though. He picked up a loose puck from the slot and wired it to the back of the net to regain the lead for the home team early on in the period, then entered the zone with speed and pulled off a slick shot to cap off the hat trick against his former team.

That individual effort was more than enough for the Checkers to coast to a weekday sweep – Henry Bowlby tacked on one more tally later in the second, and Mack Guzda turned aside 17 of the 18 shots he faced to send the Phantoms packing.