MARION, Ill. – The No. 8 seed Lewis University baseball team fell to top seeded Indianapolis 5-2 Thursday (May 9) in a Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament opening round contest. The Flyers now move to the elimination bracket where they will face off with No. 5 seed Missouri-St. Louis Friday at 12:30 p.m.
 
TEAM RECORDS
Lewis 26-25 | Indianapolis 35-16
 
SUMMARY
The Greyhounds opened the scoring with a leadoff triple and the runner scoring on a passed ball. The lead was extended to 2-0 in the bottom of the third on a RBI single.
 
Lewis got on the board in the top of the fourth as Cain Headrick (Custer Park, Ill./Providence Catholic) opened the inning with a home run to left field. The Flyers looked to even the score in the fifth after back-to-back batters got hit by a pitch to open the inning. However, a double play and a ground out left a runner stranded on third base.
 
Indianapolis regained its two-run lead in the bottom of the sixth on a RBI single. Lewis cut the deficit in half right back in the top of the seventh. A George Bilecki (Chicago, Ill./Marist) single was followed by a Patrick Keaty (South Elgin, Ill./South Elgin) double and a Thomas Fox (Norfolk, Va./Norfolk Christian) walk to load the bases with no outs. The Flyers could only muster one run from there on a Mikey Kocen (Beach Park, Ill.) sacrifice fly.
 
The lead was extended to 5-2 in the bottom of the seventh on a two-run home run. Lewis went down in order in the eighth inning and only had a Fox single in the ninth as the game ended with a strikeout.
 
Headrick had two hits to lead the Flyer offense. Dylan Wolff (Joliet, Ill.) went six innings on the mound, allowing two earned runs on seven hits, striking out two.