KISSIMMEE, Fla.- The Greyhound softball team took a pair of wins at the Rebel Spring Games Tuesday, besting Stonehill 4-0 in its first game of the day, and taking a victory over Adelphi 3-1 in game two. the Greyhounds improve to 12-5-1 with the day's wins.
UINDY 4 - STONEHILL 0
The first game of the day was an old-fashioned pitcher's dual between the Greyhounds and the Skyhawks. Neither team put up a hit in the ballgame until UIndy's half of the fourth inning, when Keltz broke the hit drought with a single to right field.
UIndy scored all three of its runs in the fifth inning, with
Jessica Breeden reaching on a fielding error by the Stonehill secondbaseman with one out. She would reach third on a pair of passed balls, and scored on an RBI single up the middle by
Krysta Bradford with two outs.
Kelsey Rummel followed with an infield single, and advanced on Stonehill trying to get Bradford at third. When the dust settled, the Greyhounds had runners on second and third with two outs and
Jamie Keltz at the plate.
Keltz hit a groundball that was mis-handled by the Skyhawk firstbaseman, scoring both Bradford and Rummel to put UIndy up 3-0.
The Greyhounds added one more in the bottom of the sixth, with
Audrey Ernst sending a pinch-hit double over the shortstop's head. Ernst stole third, and came in to score on an overthrow of the catcher trying to catch her on the steal of third.
Megan Gutierrez took the win in the circle, tossing a two-hit shutout for the 4-0 victory. The Greyhound senior struckout four to improve her record to 2-0 on the season.
UINDY 3 - ADELPHI 1
The Greyhounds scored a single run in each of three innings to pick up their second win of the day at the Rebel Spring Games.
UIndy took the early lead on a solo home run to centerfield in the second by
Cori Eckerle, and went up 2-0 on a score by Rummel in the third inning. Rummel reached on a single to left field, stole second, and came home on an error by the Panther secondbaseman two batters later.
After Adelphi answered with one run on two hits and a Greyhound error in the bottom of the third, UIndy tallied one more run. A one-out single to left by
Che' Hanebrink started things off, and she came all the way home two batters later on a single up the middle by Rummel.
Ernst picked up the win in game two, moving to 2-0 on the season. The Greyhound sophomore struck out three in four innings of work before making way for DeMotte in relief. Rummel was 3-for-3 at the plate with a run scored and an RBI in the game, to close out a 4-for-5 effort on the day at the dish.
UIndy faces off with Augustana and Tiffin Thursday at the Rebel Spring Games.