EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Lewis University's softball team dropped a pair of one-run games at Southern Indiana on Sunday afternoon in Evansville, Ind. The Screaming Eagles won the first game 1-0 and the nightcap 2-1 in nine innings. The Flyers drop to 10-12, 1-5 GLVC while USI improves to 16-8, 2-0 GLVC.
Game 1 – Southern Indiana 1, Lewis 0
The Screaming Eagles scored the only run of the game in the second inning on a home run to left center off the bat of Katie Back with one out in the inning.
Lewis had the tying run on base in the fourth and sixth innings but couldn't bring it around.
Delaney Garden (Carpentersville, Ill./H.D. Jacobs) went the distance allowing the one run on three hits with a pair of strikeouts and two walks to fall to 5-4.
Sara Serena (Kankakee, Ill./Kankakee) had two hits in the contest while
Maggie Joutras (Shorewood, Ill./Providence Catholic High School) added one.
Game 2 – Southern Indiana 2, Lewis 1
The nightcap was scoreless through six innings but Serena changed that hitting a 2-1 pitch out to left center to lead off the seventh for her third home run of the season to put the Flyers on top 1-0.
USI scored the tying run in the bottom half of the inning as Lexi Fair doubled to left with two out in the inning and then Back singled to right center to drive in Fair.
Lewis had a chance to regain the lead in the eighth but
Payton Wuske (Frankfort, Ill./Lincoln-Way East) was thrown out at the plate trying to score on
Gabi Nilles (North Aurora, Ill./West Aurora) single.
The Screaming Eagles scored the winning run in the bottom of the ninth. They loaded the bases with two singles and a dropped throw on a bunt attempt to open the inning. Back drove in the winning run with a single to right center to drive in Rachel Martinez with the winning run.
The Flyers had five hits in the second game and were led by Serena with two while Nilles, Joutras and Wuske had one each.
Wuske was the tough luck loser as she pitched eight-plus innings allowing two runs on eight hits with five strikeouts but walked eight to fall to 4-3 on the season.
Lewis returns to the diamond on Monday as it travels to Indianapolis to take on the Greyhounds of UIndy in a doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m. (CDT).
