Box scores
UIndy 4, Bellarmine 2
UIndy 4, Bellarmine 3  (12 inn.)

LOUISVILLE, Ky.- The University of Indianapolis baseball team (37-15, 24-9 GLVC) closed its 2009 regular season in dramatic fashion Sunday with a pair of road wins versus a talented Bellarmine team at Knights Field.  After winning game one 4-2, Justin Russell scored the game-winning run in the 12th inning of the capper to give the Hounds a 4-3 win and the series.

GAME 1  (7 inn.)
In his final tune-up before the GLVC Tournament, Jordan Tiegs cruised through the first six innings, allowing just three hits and zero runs.

Meanwhile, the Greyhound offense broke through with two runs in both the fourth and fifth frames.  Chase Kittinger began the first rally with a double down the leftfield line and later scored on a Bellarmine error, before Danny Collier, who got the start at first base, finished it with a solo shot to stake the Hounds to a 2-0 lead after third and a half.

UIndy pushed across two more in the following inning on a homer from shortstop Adam Akin, runs that would prove large later.

After hanging six zeros on the scoreboard, Tiegs, a transfer from College of Charleston, looked destined for his first shutout in a Greyhound uniform, but with the score 4-0 Hounds in the bottom of the seventh, the Knights finally got to the UIndy starter.

BU (32-22, 19-13) chased Tiegs by starting the frame with a hit batsman and two singles, the last of which was coupled with an error to plate two runners.

Now up just two with one on and no outs, senior reliever Travis Kempton got the call to try and lock down the win.  Kempton surrendered an infield single to the first batter he faced but then proceeded to strike out the side to earn his third save of the season.

GAME 2  (12 inn.)
Just as in the opener, neither team scored until the fourth inning until Scott Lawley picked up an RBI single to put the Hounds up 1-0.

The Knights took their first lead of the day with a two-run homer in the fifth, but the Greyhounds answered with a two-run shot of their own in the seventh.  With Travis Capps on first, Justin Russell drove a pitch to left center for his third dinger this season, giving UIndy a 3-2 lead.

Though he didn't start, Andrew Werner had pitched four innings heading into the bottom of the ninth and looked to pick up the win, but a base hit, a sacrifice bunt and an RBI single conspired against the senior hurler and allowed the Knights to force extra innings.

Neither team managed more than a single through the first five half-innings of extras until UIndy came through with the eventual game winner in the 12th.

With one down, the Greyhounds strung together three straight singles to load the bases for clean-up man Ben Sondgeroth.  Sondgeroth delivered with sac fly to left, scoring Russell with the go-ahead run.

After Kempton shut down Bellarmine for two innings, David Early garnered his team-leading fourth save by working a scoreless 12th.

UIndy competes for the 2009 GLVC Championship this coming week and will face Rockhurst in the opener.  Click here for the official tournament webpage.