Box scores
UIndy 13, UW-Parside 9
UIndy 22, UW-Parkside 9

INDIANAPOLIS- The University of Indianapolis baseball team closed out the home portion of its 2009 schedule in grand fashion Sunday at Greyhound Park.  UIndy completed a four-game sweep of visiting Wisconsin-Parkside with wins of 13-9 and 22-9, with both senior Ben Sondgeroth and junior Adam Akin recording grand slams on the day.  The two wins came on Senior Day and, coupled with a St. Joseph's loss today, clinched a conference tourney berth for the Greyhounds.

The Hounds racked-up a gaudy 77 runs in four games versus Parkside, compared to a relatively low 29 runs from the Rangers (4-41, 3-25 GLVC).  The series started with a program record 31-run performance from the Hounds in game one Saturday, and wrapped up with a 22-run output in Sunday's capper.  In all, UIndy totaled nine homeruns on the weekend.

GAME 1  (7 inn.)
Indianapolis trailed 6-0 early in game one but battled back to eventually tie it.  With the score locked at 8-8 in the bottom of the sixth, the Greyhounds surged for five big runs, with four coming on Sondgeroth's game-winning bomb.

The Greyhounds loaded them up without a hit, as a lead-off hit by pitch, an error and an outless fielder's choice ensured Sondgeroth would bat with three on and nobody out.  The Rock Falls, Ill. native responded by yanking one to left and watching it curl around the foul pole for his first grand slam in a Greyhound uniform.

The homerun helped make a winner out of a fellow senior, as Travis Kempton garnered the W by allowing one run and three hits and striking out three in 1.1 innings of work.

Five Hounds scored two runs while senor Casey Potter added a solo shot in the third.

GAME 2  (9 inn.)
After the Rangers went quietly in top of the first, leadoff man Justin Russell took the second pitch he saw over the outfield fence to stake UIndy to a quick 1-0 lead.

The next two innings saw the Hounds up their lead to 11-0, thanks in part to homers from Akin and Matt Murphy.  Akin's bomb came in the second on a 1-0 count with the bases loaded, while Murphy's happened in the third inning with no one on and the count full.

Indianapolis capped its scoring with seven unearned tallies in the eight.  Already up 15-8, the Greyhounds benefited from three Ranger errors in the frame, with the highlight coming on a two-run pinch-hit double from senior Erik Rieker.

UIndy starter Andrew Werner went six innings to collect the win.  He is now 5-2 on the year after giving up four runs and six hits while striking out six.

Russell and Adam Rusche each scored four runs in the game, Murphy went 5-for-6 with three runs and three RBI, and Akin finished 4-for-5 with eight driven in while also coming just a single away from hitting for the cycle.

UIndy (34-16, 21-7) wraps up the 2009 regular season next weekend with a four-game tilt at GLVC East rival Bellarmine.  The opponents will play two Friday and two Sunday, as UIndy's undergraduate commencement is scheduled for Saturday.


Note:  Six of UIndy's 40 homeruns this season have been grand slams…Parkside doubled the Greyhounds' hit total in the first game, 14 to 7, yet still lost by four runs.