Box scores
G1: UIndy 5, West Georgia 3
G2: UIndy 7, West Georgia 5

CARROLLTON, Ga.- Two days after its originally-scheduled start date, the 2010 UIndy baseball season began with a pair of victories Sunday as the 14th-ranked Greyhounds topped West Georgia 5-3 and 7-5 at Cole Field.  After snow postponed the season opener Friday and then again Saturday, UIndy starter Cory Rupert delivered a strong performance with 10 strikeouts in seven innings to help the Hounds to the win in game one.

GAME 1
Rupert eventually struck out the side in the bottom of the first, but not before two singles and an error conspired to hang an unearned run against the junior hurler.  The Southport grad settled in from that point, however, keeping the Wolves hitless for each of the next three innings.  Rupert garnered multiple Ks in four of his seven innings of work on the way to matching a career high.

Meanwhile, the Greyhound offense got off to a somewhat slow start.  After Danny Collier's first at bat of his senior season produced a solo homerun in the second inning, UIndy failed to score again until the eighth.

Behind one run and down to their last six outs, the Hounds notched four big tallies in the eighth, capped by a two-run bomb from Aryn Ross.  Ross' shot followed an RBI single from Chase Kittinger and a sac fly from Chris Ulrey.


GAME 2
Coming off a 10-win season in 2009, game two starter Cory White had a 1-2-3 first but ran into some trouble in the next two frames.  The Wolves put up threes run – all unearned – over the next two innings, aided by a Greyhound throwing error, a wild pitch and a passed ball.

The Hounds never trailed, however, as the visitors put up four runs in the first two innings, including three in the second, highlighted by a two-run single from Adam Akin.

UIndy tacked on single tallies in the fourth, fifth and sixth, with its final run coming on an RBI double from Ulrey.

Down 7-3 heading into the bottom of the ninth, the Wolves crept closer by plating two against junior Donovan Drake, but senior reliever David Early came on to get the final two outs and earn the save.

UIndy hopes the Georgian weather improves before next weekend as the Greyhounds head back to the Peach State for a three-game series at Columbus State Saturday and Sunday.


Note:  The Greyhounds are ranked 14th in the latest Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Division II Poll.  They also appear in the top 20 in the National College Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) D-II poll, sitting at No. 17.