KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The 12th-ranked UIndy softball team capped its weekend with a doubleheader sweep at Rockhurst Sunday afternoon.  The Greyhounds downed the host Hawks 5-1 and 5-3 to improve to 18-6 on the season and 7-1 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference.  Junior pitcher Morgan Foley twirled nine innings on the day, allowing just one run while notching a win and a save.
 
GAME 1
Per usual, Foley (13-3) got the start in game one, and also per usual, picked up the complete-game win.  Just one Hawk reached home plate while 10 sat down after strikeouts.
 
Offensively, sophomore Natalie Lalich powered in the initial runs for the Hounds, as her two-run homer in the fourth gave the visitors the game's first lead.
 
Later, doubles from sisters Taylor and Sydney Russell kept UIndy in front; Taylor put herself in scoring position in the sixth prior to Sammy Beckwith's single, while Sydney drove in Katie Kelly with her seventh-inning two bagger.
 
Lalich also had a second-inning double to her credit, and Jessie Noone recorded an RBI single in the fifth.
 
GAME 2
The UIndy offense again generated five runs in game two, two of which came in the top of the first.  After singles from Erika Goodwin and Casey Williamson, T. Russell singled up the middle to score Goodwin, while Williamson came around immediately after on a Rockhurst error.
 
Williamson added RBI doubles in the fifth and seventh frames, scoring S. Russell each time.  Beckwith, who started both ends of the doubleheader behind the plate, added a sixth-inning double and later scored on a seventh-inning RBI groundout from Tayler Weck.
 
Junior Coryn Tirpak (1-3) got her first win of the season in the circle, holding the Hawks (13-9, 4-4) to three runs – two earned – in five-plus innings.  The Monticello, Ind., native scattered seven hits and walked zero.
 
With a one-run lead in the bottom of the sixth, Tirpak gave up a leadoff single, prompting the Hounds to go to Foley.  The 2014 Division II Pitcher of the Year retired the final six batters in order to protect the lead and thus earn save No. 3.
 
UIndy hopes to open play at Baumgartner Field Wednesday, Mar. 24.  Weather permitting, the Greyhounds will host in-region Ohio Dominican for a doubleheader starting at 3 p.m.