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Evansville, Ind. – Freshman Jessica Saffell (Aurora, Ill./Aurora West) tallied her sixth goal of the season to help the Lewis women's soccer team to a 1-0 victory over host Southern Indiana on Sunday (Sept. 23) at Strassweg Field. The Flyers improve to 6-2 on the season and 4-2 in Great Lakes Valley Conference play. The Eagles fall to 5-3 overall and 4-2 in the GLVC.
 
Senior Fran Abate (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) was able to feed the ball to Saffell, who ran up to collect the pass to beat Southern Indiana's goalkeeper Jackie Lohmann for the goal in the 69^th minute. Saffell had six shots, four on goal, in the game.
 
“This was a big win,” Lewis women's soccer head coach Chris Koenig said. “I am proud of this squad, going 3-1 in conference play on two straight road trips, we're going to enjoy this today.”
 
Flyers' defense was able to keep the Eagles offense at bay, allowing the Southern Indiana to only take six shots in the game. Lewis goalkeeper Arianna Nie (Mokena, Ill./Lincoln-Way East) (Mokena, Ill./Lincoln-West East) had one save.  
 
Lewis' offense had 15 shots, with eight shots on goal, against Southern Indiana. The squad also earned nine corners in the game.
 
“I thought we played well,” Koenig said. “The girls did a lot of what (the coaching staff) asked them to do and they did very well to get a good goal.”

Lewis women's soccer returns home to take on McKendree on Friday (Sept. 28) at Lewis Stadium with first kick set for 7:30 PM.