Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score

INDIANAPOLIS -- The University of Indianapolis baseball team opened the 2011 season by sweeping a doubleheader from in-region foe Hillsdale at Greyhound Park. The Greyhounds (2-0) took the first game, 7-5, and then had to fight from behind to win in walk-off fashion in eight innings in game two, 3-2, against the Chargers (2-5).

Game One

In the first game, the Chargers scored three times in the top of the first, but UIndy came back with two of their own without registering a hit. Hillsdale increased its lead in the second, 4-2, but UIndy put five on the board in the bottom half. Andrew Armour had a two-RBI single in the inning to put UIndy up three, 7-4.

Neither team scored until Hillsdale plated a run in the top of the sixth, but Chris Saroff came on to close out the game in the seventh for the season-opening victory.

JaVaun West earned the win in his first appearance as a Greyhound with four innings of relief allowing no earned runs. Kaleb Cunningham also had two RBI for UIndy and Matt Maringer went 2-for-2 at the plate.

Game Two

The second game of the doubleheader was a pitcher's duel that took extra innings to decide. The Greyhounds scored first as Maringer led off the inning with a double down the left field line and was plated three batters later on a double by Kyler Mason, 1-0.

Patrick Kraft continued to baffle the Hillsdale hitters as he struck out three and allowed only five hits in five innings, but he encountered trouble in the sixth. The Chargers doubled to start the inning and then had runners on the corners after reaching on a bunt single. Kraft was injured on the play and was replaced by Tyler Norton.

Norton gave up a hit to his first batter to tie the game, but didn't allow another run as he punched out Jamie McNeill to end the inning.

After a scoreless seventh, Hillsdale took the lead in the top of the eighth on a sacrifice fly, 2-1, but that was all the damage HC could inflict.

The Greyhounds started fast in the bottom half of the inning to rally as Spencer Smith walked and was advanced to second on a bunt by Armour. Brandon Stevens followed with a single to left, but Smith had to stop at third. Cunningham recorded his third RBI of the afternoon with a sacrifice fly to center to tie the game and score Smith. After a wild pitch, HC intentionally walked Aryn Ross to load the bases. Head coach Gary Vaught then went to a pitch hitter with Saroff going to the plate. On the first pitch, Saroff took one for the team being hit in the back to score the winning run.