Box scores
G1: CSU 3, UIndy 2
G2: CSU 14, UIndy 6

COLUMBUS, Ga.- The 12th-ranked UIndy baseball team was handed a pair of losses by Columbus State at Ragsdale Field Saturday.  The Cougars edged the Greyhounds 3-2 in game one before earning a 14-6 victory in the capper.  Senior second baseman Adam Akin had three hits on the day.

GAME 1
CSU (8-2) upped its winning streak to six with a 3-2 win in the opener.  The Hounds had a chance in the ninth but came up just short to earn their first loss of the season.
 
Neither team got on the board until the fourth inning.  Seniors Adam Akin and Chase Kittinger started the frame with back-to-back singles, and after Aryn Ross walked, Akin scored on a base knock from designated hitter Zach Kreeger.

The Cougars quickly answered with a one-out solo shot from their DH, Wes Adkins, to knot it at one.

UIndy mustered just a single over the next to frames before Columbus St. tacked on two more in the sixth with two more homeruns off Rupert.  The Greyhounds' all-region pitcher had given up just one homer in his previous 115 innings heading into today.

Rupert came out for the seventh, but after surrendering a lead-off triple, the junior was pulled in favor of senior Vince Saisi with a score 3-1 Cougars.  Rupert got 10 ground balls in six-plus innings, but gave up eight hits and two walks to leave the game on the hook.

Saisi, meanwhile, came in with a man on third and nobody out, but coaxed a pop out, a line out and a strikeout to keep the score at 3-1 Cougars.

The score remained the same heading into the ninth, where senior first baseman Danny Collier got things started with a single.  Though a strikeout followed, the Hounds got a break as a Cougar error made it first and second with one down.

Left-hander Scott Mourey replaced Saisi and delivered a pinch-hit single to score Collier and move the tying run to third.  Andrew Armour pinch ran for Morey and promptly stole second, but with the potential winning run in scoring position, CSU hurler Wade Dudley got a strikeout and a fly ball to end the threat and earn the save.

Eight different Greyhounds accounted for UIndy's eights hits, all of which were singles.


GAME 2
Columbus State kept it rolling with a 14-6 win in the second game, thanks chiefly to an 11-run seventh.

UIndy starter Cory White got the nod in game two, and after allowing the first two Cougars to reach, the senior sat down the next three to escape the first unscathed.

After going down in order the in top of the first, the Hounds gave White a slight lead on an RBI single from Travis Capps in the second, but Columbus St. got the run back plus another to go up 2-1 after three.

CSU got another one in the fifth before UIndy earned its first multi-run inning of the day in a two-run sixth.  Two singles and an error plated the tying tally before Michael Bradburn earned his first RBI as a Greyhound on a fielder's choice.

With White's day done after five, the Cougars broke it opening versus the Greyhound bullpen in the sixth.  The Cougars scored 11 runs in the frame, highlighted by a three-run jack from Cameron Griffin.

The Hounds plated three more in the final two innings, with Chris Ulrey hitting the only UIndy extra-base hit of the day with an eighth-inning homerun before later picking up an RBI single in the ninth.  The damage was done, however, as the Greyhounds fell to 2-2 on the young season, while the Cougars have now won seven straight.

UIndy's stays in town for a single game with the Cougars tomorrow.  First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.