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INDIANAPOLIS – The UIndy football team celebrated a soggy 2013 homecoming with a 34-3 win versus GLVC-rival Missouri S&T Saturday night.  Between heavy downpours and a 38-minute lightning delay, senior Klay Fiechter scored his 31st career rushing touchdown to snap a 51-year-old school record.
 
Fiechter's total surpassed that of former Greyhound-standout Jim Ware (1959-62).  The second-quarter score helped UIndy to its third straight win on homecoming and ninth in its last 10.

The score was tied 3-3 when the lightning delay stopped play with 6:22 left in the second.  After earning an interception on the first snap after the stoppage, the Greyhounds ran off 31 unanswered points to open its Great Lakes Valley Conference season with a victory.

The UIndy defense racked up five interceptions on the night, including three from junior corner Andre Smith.
 
A 10-win team just a season ago, the Miners (1-4) have faced three ranked teams already this season and have won just one of their first five games under new head coach Tyler Fenwick.  S&T managed to outgain UIndy, 297-270, but the Miners' minus-five turnover ratio more than negated its nearly 300 total yards of offense
 
With the rain starting right on cue with the kickoff, S&T earned a 24-yard field goal on the first drive of the game but were held scoreless the rest of the half.
 
Shortly after UIndy got on the board with a 20-yard boot from junior Scott Miller early in the second, Mother Nature intervened to cause a rare lightning delay, stopping the game for nearly 40 minutes.
 
The stoppage was perhaps a bad omen for the Miners, as on the first snap after resuming play, UIndy linebacker Derrick Bryant stepped in front of a Reed Brown pass for his first career interception – the eighth of the year for the Hounds.
 
The ensuing touchdown not only broke the rushing touchdown record for Fiechter, but also broke open the flood gates for the Greyhounds.  Defensive interceptions and offensive touchdowns became the theme for the Hounds, as the home team garnered five picks and four TDs while the Miners found the red zone only twice.
 
Late in the third quarter, UIndy endured an injury to its senior quarterback Chris Mills, but redshirt-sophomore Connor Barthel stepped in and led the Hounds to pair of scoring drives.  The Cathedral High School product rushed for 15 yards on two carries to help set up a 35-yard FG by Miller.
 
Barthel later completed his first pass of the season to his former high school target, Reece Horn, and later notched his first-ever collegiate TD pass with a 13-yard connection to junior Greg Johnson.

UIndy capped the scoring with a 14-yard TD run from junior Matt Ripp.

Defensively, senior linebacker Todd Hacker had a team-high eight tackles.  Senior Mike Phillips had two tackles for a loss, includingt a big 10-yard sack.  Sophomore Josh Bass punctuated the game with an interception on the game's final play.
 
The Greyhounds will be away from Key Stadium for the next two weeks, starting with a conference clash at McKendree Saturday, Oct. 12.  Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. ET.
 
 
Notes:  UIndy had zero turnovers for the first time this season, and its three points allowed marked a season low…Junior Pavel Polochanin launched a personal-best 59-yard punt that stalled inside the Miner five-yard line…Redshirt-freshman Jacob Moran also notched a career high with 29 rushing yards on six carries.