ROMEOVILLE, Ill.- The Drury Panthers ended their 2018 season with a pair of losses at Lewis on Sunday falling 7-2 in game one and 12-11 in game two.
 
Drury finished the year 20-24 and 11-17 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. Lewis ended their season with a 21-29 record and a 10-18 mark in the conference.
 
Drury had a 2-0 lead through the first four innings of game one, but the Flyers struck for three runs in the fifth and put the game away with a four-run sixth inning. Four of the seven runs allowed by Panthers starter Kasey Cazares (9-8) were unearned as Lewis took advantage of three Drury errors.
 
Cazares homered in the game while Megan Tersteeg went 2 for 2 at the plate with a walk.
 
In game two, Drury broke a 4-4 tie erupting for six runs in the top of the fifth but then surrendered seven runs in the bottom half of the frame to fall behind 11-10.
 
After Lewis tacked on an insurance run in the sixth, the Panthers threatened in the top of the seventh as Natalie Lopez hit her second home run of the season to pull Drury within a run of the lead, but Lewis would get a pop up and a ground out to end the game.
 
Jacy Ummel went 3 for 5 in the game for the Panthers and drove in three runs. Ummel had hits in both halves of Sunday's doubleheader to end the year with a 16-game hitting streak. Ozark native Emily Stringer went 3 for 4 with two runs, an RBI and a stolen base in the final game of her college career.
 
Drury's 11-17 record in the GLVC matches the team's best mark in the league since 2012. After being picked to finish 15th in the conference's preseason coaches' poll, they finished in 11th place in the GLVC standings.
 
The Panthers completed their first season under head coach Jerry Breaux, who was in his 25th year overall as a collegiate head coach.
 
 
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