INDIANAPOLIS – The top-seeded UIndy softball team stayed alive at the NCAA Midwest Regional 1 Friday afternoon, downing No. 5-seed Southern Indiana, 11-3, in the bracket's first elimination game. The Greyhounds (51-4) exploded for a combined nine runs in the fifth and sixth innings, capped by the first career grand slam by freshman Marisa Brown (pictured) in the sixth.
 
The result advances UIndy to another elimination contest, this time versus fourth-seeded Grand Valley State at approximately 4:10 p.m. ET Friday. That winner will move on to the regional final versus Trevecca Nazarene Sunday at 3 p.m. USI, meanwhile, ends its season at 35-21.

Senior Morgan Foley set yet another school record. The Louisville, Ky., got the win in the circle, upping her mark to 40-3 on the year to break her own program record for pitching wins in a season.
 
Offensively, UIndy got things going early with a pair of runs in the first. Katie Kelly and Erika Goodwin led off the inning with back-to-back walks. A sac bunt and the rare out-less fielder's choice followed to load them up for senior Jenny Thompson, who sent one right back up the middle, deflecting off the USI pitcher into right field to score two.
 
Bookending a three-run top of the sixth for USI (all unearned), the Greyhound offense unloaded for nine runs combined in what proved to be the final two innings to run-rule the visiting Eagles.
 
UIndy strung together five singles and two walks in the fifth to craft a five-run rally that including five RBIs from five different batters. Conversely, the four runs in the sixth came on one swing when freshman Marisa Brown, making her first-ever postseason start, launched a 1-2 offering to centerfield, clearing the Baumgartner Field fence. It marked Brown's first career grand slam while putting her team up eight to invoke the run rule.
 
Foley tossed five scoreless frames, striking out three and walking two on the way to her record-setting win. Senior relievers Coryn Tirpak and Miranda Tamayo combined to get the final three outs.