ROMEOVILLE, Ill. – Lewis' baseball overcame a three-run deficit but was unable to hold a pair of one run leads as it dropped the series finale at William Jewell 7-6 on Saturday afternoon at Talley Stadium in Liberty, Mo. The Flyers fall to 21-20 overall and are 14-13 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference while the Cardinals improve to 17-24-1 and 11-16 in the GLVC.

"We just didn't play well enough to win plain and simple," Lewis head baseball coach Tim McDonough said. "We made too many mistakes and those things always come back to bite you in close games.

"I thought we did a nice job fighting back to get the lead on two separate occasions and that has been a constant for us all season. We just have to find a way to close out games late. When we do that we are very tough to beat."

William Jewell jumped out to the early lead scoring single runs in each of the first two innings. Lewis got on the board in the fourth on Matt Verdun's (Homer Glen, Ill./St. Rita) RBI single scoring Anthony Rios (Lemont, Ill./St. Laurence).

The Cardinals extended their lead to 4-1 with single runs in the fifth and sixth innings. The Flyers rallied in the seventh scoring four runs on three hits and two errors. Anthony Cavalieri (Western Springs, Ill./Fenwick) drove in the first run with a single to left to drive in Michael O'Brien (Joliet, Ill./Joliet Catholic). Later in the inning Ryan Schefske (Lombard, Ill./Glenbard East) tripled to center to bring home Cavalieri to make it 4-3. Rios gave Lewis its first lead of the day hitting a two-run homer down the left field line to make it 5-4.

Jewell tied the game in its half of the seventh on a two out triple to right center scoring Chase Redick.

The Flyers regained the lead in the eighth on Brandon Post's (Elk Grove Village, Ill./Elk Grove) RBI double to right to drive in Verdun.

The Cardinals responded with two runs in the bottom of the eighth to retake the lead. Mason Goade drove in the tying run reaching on an error on a bunt attempt and then Zac Vorst gave them the lead with sacrifice bunt to the pitcher.

Lewis had one final chance in the ninth but was retired in order to end the game.

The Flyers had 10 hits in the contest and were led by Rios with three of them while Post and Verdun had two apiece. Ryan Ward (Hanover Park, Ill./Hoffman Estates) took the loss allowing three runs on three hits in his 2.1 innings of relief work.

Lewis is back in action on Wednesday (April 24) traveling up to Kenosha, Wis., to take on the Parkside Rangers at Simmons Field in a doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m.