ROSEMONT, Ill. -- The Lewis University softball team was defeated by Wisconsin-Parkside 5-3 at The Dome at the Parkway Bank Sports Complex Sunday (Feb. 26). 

TEAM RECORDS
Parkside (6-6) | Lewis (5-4)

SUMMARY
Lewis grabbed a 2-0 lead in the opening inning after Kristen Graham (Mapleton, IL/Illini Bluffs High School) reached on an error which scored Jalyn Powell (Tolono, IL/Unity) and Delaney Garden (Carpentersville, IL/Harry D. Jacobs High School). 

Parkside responded in its top half of the second inning with two of its own with a two-run double. 

The difference came in the fourth inning after the Rangers scored three runs when Lewis committed a pair of errors on the same play to make it 5-2. 

The Flyers looked to rally in the fifth after Gabi Nilles (North Aurora, IL/West Aurora) ripped a RBI single that scored Anna Frafjord (Sussex, WI/Hamilton High School). That score would hold with Parkside winning 5-3.

Sara Serena (Kankakee, IL/Kankakee) (0-2) took the defeat after going 3 and 1/3 innings, scattering five hits, allowing five runs, three earned, walking three and striking out one. 

Allie Wondrasek (New Lenox, IL/Lincoln-Way West High School) pitched 3.2 scoreless innings in relief while only allowing four hits and striking out four. 

UP NEXT 
Lewis will be back in action for THE Spring Games which take place Sunday, March 5-Saturday, March 11 with 12 games in six days for the Flyers.