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EAST PEORIA, Ill. – The No. 9 UIndy softball team (41-10) survived its first elimination game at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament Saturday, producing a 6-0 shutout versus Illinois Springfield.  Greyhound pitchers Morgan Foley and Coryn Tirpak combined to no-hit the seventh-seeded Prairie Stars (27-25) and end their 2014 season.
 
Foley, who struck out an NCAA-record 30 batters in an opening-round win against Rockhurst yesterday, spun six scoreless innings versus UIS to up her season record to 31-5.  Tirpak came on to finish the job with a 1-2-3 seventh, completing the first no-hitter – combined or otherwise – for the Greyhounds this year.
 
Foley fanned five batters, with a second-inning walk resulting in the only Prairie Star base runner of the day.
 
After scoring just one run in 18 total innings yesterday, the UIndy bats generated a half dozen runs Saturday afternoon, including a four-run outburst in the seventh frame.  The onslaught was led by junior Casey Williamson.  The all-conference first teamer finished with three hits, four RBIs and two runs scored.
 
Williamson cranked a two-run homer to left, driving in herself and Katie Kelly to give the Hounds the lead in the third inning.  Later, back-to-back doubles from Kelly and Williamson fueled the four-run seventh.
 
UIndy advances to play fifth-seeded William Jewell this afternoon at 4 p.m. ET.  WJC (29-22) outlasted the tournament's third seed, Truman State, 8-7, earlier today.  UIndy and Jewell did not face each other in the regular season.

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