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OWENSBORO, Ky. – The two bookends of the Great Lakes Valley Conference football standings met Saturday afternoon, as the league-leading UIndy Greyhounds traveled to last-place Kentucky Wesleyan and handed the Panthers a 45-14 defeat.  The triumph marked the Hounds' sixth straight win, as the team has scored 35 or more points throughout the streak.

UIndy's win streak is its longest since it ran off eight straight victories spanning the 1998 and '99 seasons. Before Saturday, the Hounds had not won six consecutive games in the same season since going 6-0 to begin the 1997 campaign.

A week after Mar'quone Edmonds broke the school record for most career receptions, junior quarterback Chris Mills threw for 240 yards and four scores to etch his name as UIndy all-time leader in career TD passes.  Mills' performance upped his career touchdown pass total to 56, one more than former-leader Matt Kohn (2001-04).

 
Though the Greyhounds (6-2, 6-0 GLVC) never trailed on the day, penalty flags and a pick-six by the Panthers conspired to keep the game close through the early going.  KWC (2-6, 0-6) tied the score at seven and again at 14 to run neck-and-neck with the Hounds through the first 19 minutes of play.
 
However, beginning with a 75-yard touchdown run by Klay Fiechter early in the second quarter, UIndy ran off 31 unanswered points to turn the game into a blowout.
 
Behind an overpowering UIndy offensive line, Fiechter needed just 19 carries to amass a personal-best 196 rushing yards, four short of the team's third 200-rushing-yard game since 1983.
 
Defensively, Blake Surface accounted for half of the Hounds' six tackles for a loss.  The junior defensive end delivered his biggest blow with a seven-yard sack in the fourth quarter.
 
Linebacker Todd Hacker recorded a team-high seven total tackles, while fellow-LB Jayme Comer corralled his first interception as a Greyhound to end KWC's final possession.
 
The Greyhounds return to Key Stadium for back-to-back home games, starting with a match-up versus William Jewell Saturday, Oct. 27.  Kickoff is scheduled for 6 p.m.


Notes: UIndy punted just once in the game and not until the fourth quarter ... Mills has thrown four touchdown passes in each of the last three games ... One of Saturday's TD passes went to redshirt-freshman Reece Horn, good for his first career score ... Despite the team's recent blowout wins, the UIndy defense has surrendered just 307 passing yards (102.3 ypg) in the last three games ... The Greyhound offensive line did not allow a sack Saturday.  The team's QBs have been sacked just one time in the last 21 quarters of play.