INDIANAPOLIS- Junior Brandon Braboy tossed eight strong innings to pick up his third win of the season as the University of Indianapolis baseball team (12-8, 3-3 GLVC) scored a 6-2 win over Bellarmine in the first game of a doubleheader Friday at Greyhound Park.  The Knights would salvage a split, however, with a 6-4 victory in game two.

 

With the scored tied 1-1 in the bottom the third, sophomore Adam Akin led off the frame with a single before freshman Chris Saroff cranked a 2-2 offering over the leftfield wall to give the Hounds a 3-1 lead.  Junior Justin Russell added another run with a solo shot in the fourth.

 

After the Knights (11-9, 4-2) got a run back in the top of the seventh, UIndy tacked on two more in its half of the inning.  Aryn Ross started the frame with a single up the middle and advanced to second on a groundout.  Ben Sondgeroth garnered a walk before Matt Murphy came in to pitch run.  Both Ross and Murphy earned stolen bases just before Dalan Dugger drove them both in with a single down the rightfield line to cap the game's scoring.

 

Braboy threw 120 pitches while allowing two runs and fanning a season-high 10 batters.  Saroff finished the game on the mound by facing the minimum in the ninth.  He gave up a lead-off single before a strikeout and a game-ending 4-6-3 double play punctuated the Greyhound win.

 

Eight of UIndy's nine starting hitters had at least one hit while the six Greyhound runs were scored by six different players.

 

Both teams plated a run in the first before Bellarmine earned a brief 2-1 lead after two and a half.  UIndy answered with a four-hit, three-run effort in the bottom of the third, good for the must productive half inning of the day. Senior Kyle Fisher began the action with a single and was later sacrificed to second.  Saroff brought him in with an opposite-field base knock.  After another single from Ross, Sondgeroth drove a ball to deep center for a two-run double.

 

That would be the end of the Greyhound scoring, however, as the visiting Knights scored two runs in both the fourth and the fifth innings to retake the lead for good.  Down two in the seventh and final inning, UIndy managed to load the bases with two outs but would come up empty.

 

UIndy starter Andrew Werner took the loss by allowing six earned runs in four and a third.  Senior Mike McFadden went the rest of the way with two and two-thirds scoreless innings.