EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- The Lewis softball team won its league best 11th Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament Championship after defeating Maryville in the semifinals then Indianapolis in the championship game Sunday (May 7). 

TEAM RECORDS
Indianapolis 50-8 | Lewis 35-18

SUMMARY 
Indianapolis broke through with a two-run single which gave the Greyhounds a early 2-0 lead. 

Lewis got one back in the bottom of the third after Anna Frafjord (Sussex, WI/Hamilton High School) hit a solo home run to right. 

The Flyers had a big fifth inning as Lewis scored four times.

Gabi Nilles (North Aurora, IL/West Aurora) ripped a two-run single up the middle which scored Frafjord and Meghan Bontrager (Milford, IN/Northridge) to give the Flyers a 3-2 lead. 

Delaney Garden (Carpentersville, IL/Harry D. Jacobs High School) made it 4-2 after hitting a RBI double down the left field line scoring Nilles from first.

Kristen Graham (Mapleton, IL/Illini Bluffs High School) extended the lead out to 5-2 after driving home Garden on a RBI groundout.

Garden (16-7) picked up the win in the circle after going all seven innings, allowing six hits, giving up two runs and striking out six. 

TEAM RECORDS
Maryville 30-20 | Lewis 34-18

SUMMARY
Lewis 4, Maryville 1
Lewis struck first in the bottom of the second after Bontrager hit a RBI double to left which scored Erica Hoffman (Hebron, IN/Boone Grove High School).

Jalyn Powell (Tolono, IL/Unity) doubled the Lewis lead in the third inning after she singled home Delaney Garden (Carpentersville, IL/Harry D. Jacobs High School). 

Maryville got one back in the fourth inning to cut the deficit in half which made it 2-1 Flyers.

The Flyers responded with a two-run fifth inning after Sara Serena (Kankakee, IL/Kankakee) drove home Nilles and Garden with a two-run two out single to left center. 

Allie Wondrasek (New Lenox, IL/Lincoln-Way West High School) (12-5) picked up the win after allowing four hits, giving up one run, walking two and striking out seven. 

UP NEXT
Lewis received the GLVC's automatic bid to the NCAA Midwest Regional and will await to see its opponent and location during the NCAA Division II Selection Show slated for Monday, May 8 starting at 9 a.m. A link to the show will be on the front page of NCAA.com.