Box score

WINTER HAVEN, Fla.-  The UIndy baseball team left the Sunshine State on a high note Wednesday, as the Greyhounds torched Division-II Mansfield University, 14-1, in its last game at the Russmatt Central Florida Invite.  The Greyhounds (4-5) scored in each of the first five innings and finished the game with 11 hits.

Despite the early 9:30 a.m. first pitch, the UIndy bats were awake right from the start as the Hounds hung two runs on the Mountaineers in the bottom of the first inning.  After a Matt Maringer leadoff double and two subsequent walks, third baseman Chris Saroff plated a pair of runs with a two-out single.

UIndy kept the pressure on when right fielder and nine-hole hitter Bryce Feller led off the second with a homerun to left.  Later, first baseman Jake Hartley added an RBI double to help make it 5-0 Hounds after two.

The runs kept coming for UIndy, as the Hounds scored three more in the third, two in the fourth and four in the fifth.  The 14 runs came one shy f the team's season high.

In addition to his homer, Feller added a pair of walks and scored three times.  Nate Koontz amassed two hits, two runs and two walks, while Maringer (pictured) also had two hits and scored twice.

In his first start of the season, right-hander Chad Moore cruised through three innings before running into trouble in the fourth.  The Mountaineers (6-11) notched their only run of the day in the frame on a walk, a wild pitch, a single and a sacrifice fly.  Moore then gave up a second single in inning and was pulled in favor of Ryan Hollenberg.

Hollenberg (1-0) induced a double play and ultimately got the win after working one-and-two-third innings of relief.

Alex Wood and Tyler Norton also came out of the 'pen, with each tossing a scoreless inning.

UIndy returns to the Midwest to open conference play this weekend.  The Hounds will play a doubleheader at Missouri S&T Saturday, then head to Drury for two more games Sunday.  Both twin bills will start at 1 p.m. Eastern.


Note: Wednesday's game was scheduled to go nine innings, but the mercy rule was triggered after the Hounds went up by at more than nine runs after seven innings.