ROMEOVILLE, Ill. – Lewis University's softball team split its doubleheader against William Jewell at the Urban Youth Academy in on Sunday afternoon in Kansas City. The Flyers won the opening game 5-0 but dropped the nightcap 5-4.
Game 1 – Lewis 5, William Jewell 0
Lewis (18-18, 7-11 GLVC) jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the second inning.
Maggie Joutras (Shorewood, Ill./Providence Catholic High School) doubled down the left field line with one out and scored on
Jalyn Powell's (Tolono, Ill./Unity) single through the right side of the infield.
The Flyers added to their lead with three runs in the third.
Sara Serena (Kankakee, Ill./Kankakee) drove in
Gabi Nilles (North Aurora, Ill./West Aurora) with a groundout to second to make it 2-0. Later in the inning,
Delaney Garden (Carpentersville, Ill./H.D. Jacobs) scored on a wild pitch and
Evie Calderon (Chicago, Ill./Whitney Young) scored on a passed ball.
Lewis' final run came in the fifth on
Carrie Anderson's (Roscoe, Ill./Hononegah Community) single up the middle that scored Serena.
The Flyers outhit the Cardinals (11-25, 5-15 GLVC) 9-6 in the contest with Powell accounting for two of those while Nilles, Garden, Calderon, Joutras, Anderson,
Meghan Bontrager (Milford, Ind./Northridge) and
Payton Wuske (Frankfort, Ill./Lincoln-Way East) had one hit apiece.
Garden tossed a complete game six-hit shutout with five strikeouts and no walks to improve to 9-7.
Game 2 – William Jewell 5, Lewis 4
WJC scored four runs on one hit and an error in the home half of the second. The Cardinals loaded the bases with an error and back-to-back one out walks. Abby Vandiver drove in the first run with a bases loaded walk and Allison Rawls drove in the second run with a bases loaded walk. Hailey Wall drove in the final two runs of the inning with a two-out single up the middle.
Lewis got one of those runs back in the third as Garden drove in Wuske with a two-out single to right.
The Flyers tied the game in the fourth scoring three runs on four hits. Powell drove in her second run of the doubleheader with a single up the middle and then Nilles tied the game with a two-run single to center to drive in Powell and Anderson.
The Cardinals retook the lead in their half of the fifth. Kenzie Jones drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly to center to score Abby Harder.
Lewis was held to just one single over the final two innings.
The Flyers outhit William Jewell 8-3 in the nightcap with Powell accounting for two of those while Nilles, Garden, Serena, Anderson, Bontrager and Wuske had one each.
Wuske pitched the final 4.2 innings in relief of Serena and allowed one run on three hits with one strikeout and three walks to fall to 7-5 on the season. Serena allowed four runs, two earned with five walks in 1.1 innings pitched.
Lewis begins a 10-game homestand this Tuesday (April 12) hosting Parkside in a non-conference doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. at the Lewis Softball Field.
