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SAUGET, Ill.- With a 13-4 win against Southern Indiana Saturday night at GCS Balpark, the University of Indianapolis baseball team earns the chance to play for the 2009 Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship.  The Greyhounds are one of two remaining teams in the double-elimination GLVC Tournament and will need to win two versus Northern Kentucky tomorrow to earn the crown.  Junior Vince Saisi picked up the win by striking out four in six innings of work in just his second start as a Greyhound.

With USI playing in its second loser-go-home game of the day, the Greyhounds coaxed four walks to key a three-run first.  The frame was highlighted by an RBI single by Andrew Armour, the only hit of the inning.

After the Screaming Eagles (37-17) notched a lone run in the top of the second, Indianapolis again put the pressure on USI starter Alex Thieroff in bottom half of two, as UIndy garnered a single and two walks to load the bases with one down.

Eagles head coach Tracy Archuleta had seen enough at that point, as he pulled Thieroff in favor of sophomore Cody Brandenstein.  The move paid off in the short term as Brandenstein got a liner to short and a come-backer to escape with no damage.

A fielder's choice, a double, and a ground out in the third inning made it 4-1 UIndy, but that was quickly overshadowed by the Greyhounds' six-run output the following frame.

UIndy sent eight hitters to the plate before the Eagles managed to get an out.  The rally started with back-to-back doubles from Casey Potter and Justin Russell, as Russell's two-bagger not only drove in a run but also extended his team season-high hit streak to 17 games.

Two singles and a hit batsman convinced Archuleta to make another pitching change, this time going to the freshman Shad Macke.  The move did little initially to deter the outpouring, however, as another hit batsman, a single and a walk combined to score the fourth and fifth Greyhound runs of the inning.

The Hounds added one more in the fourth before the Eagles stopped the bleeding. A sac fly by Scott Lawley punctuated the six-run inning and gave the Hounds a healthy 10-1 advantage.

The USI bats made some noise with solo homers in both the sixth and seventh innings.  Catcher Dylan Mooney accounted for the sixth-inning jack, his fourth dinger of the tournament.

But the Greyhounds all but ended any hopes of an Eagle comeback with three runs in the bottom of the 7th, coming on RBI singles from Adam Akin, Ben Sondgeroth and Armour.

Saisi got his first win as a starter at UIndy, upping his record to 3-2.  The transfer from Oakton Community College allowed two earned runs on four hits and three walks while striking out four in six innings.

UIndy (40-18) faces Northern Kentucky for the 2009 GLVC Championship Sunday, but with NKU still undefeated, the Hounds will need to down the Norse twice tomorrow. Game one is scheduled for 1 p.m. Eastern, 12 Central.