It was a festive weekend of softball in Evanston for everything and everyone except for Purdue fans and the side of Welsh-Ryan Arena facing Rachel Lewis when she stepped up to the plate.
Since Lewis joined the Northwestern softball team in 2018, the arena’s brown brick façade has been peppered every spring with her numerous home runs from the neighboring Sharon J. Drysdale Field. It was no different on Friday, when the graduate student sent not one, but two yellow softballs into orbit — and into the wall — to become the program’s all-time home run leader.
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