One of the most lopsided series of the South Atlantic League season finally came to an end Monday night at Lake Olmstead Stadium.

And fittingly, the Augusta GreenJackets defeated the Lexington Legends, 5-1.

The win completed a dominating four-game sweep in a series featuring teams heading in opposite directions. The GreenJackets, whose 78-46 overall record leads the SAL, outscored Lexington, owners of the league's worst overall record at 40-85, by a total score of 37-5.

"It was good for us," GreenJackets manager Andy Skeels said. "The thing that is important here is that you've got to beat the teams you're supposed to beat."

Monday night's game kept the trend going.

The first six GreenJackets batters reached base, and five of them scored. Shane Jordan, Nick Noonan and Juan Ciriaco started the game with three consecutive hits.

After Jordan scored, Thomas Neal reached on catcher's interference, and Dayton Buller and Angel Villalona combined to drive in four runs with a pair of RBI hits.

Villalona finished the night 3-for-4 with two RBI.

That's all the scoring the home team needed. GreenJackets starter Craig Clark gave up a double to Chris Jackson to start the game. Jackson scored later in the inning on a sacrifice fly, but Clark shut down the visitors the rest of the way. He left after six innings -- allowing just two hits and striking out six.

"It seemed like we put them out early, and then our pitching just dominated," Noonan said. "It puts less pressure on our offense when they're pitching like that."

Andrew De La Garza and Ryan Paul combined for three perfect innings to send the visitors home winless.

Lexington starter Jake Leonhardt (4-13) was tagged for five runs over 4 1/3 innings.

Reach Billy Byler at (706) 823-3216 or billy.byler@augustachronicle.com.