INDIANAPOLIS – The 10th-ranked UIndy softball team (34-8, 19-3 GLVC) celebrated Senior Day with a doubleheader sweep of visiting Maryville Friday evening.  Sandwiched between wins of 5-0 and 3-2, the Greyhounds honored seniors Amanda Ciran, Sydney Russell, Taylor Russell, Jessica Vleck and Casey Williamson.
 
The senior quintet has contributed to a lofty .827 winning percentage, highest in program history for any four-year span.  Also, the group needs just three more victories to surpass the school record of 184 wins in a four-year stretch.
 
GAME 1
UIndy received home runs for T. Russell and Williamson while getting a combined two-hit shutout from Morgan Foley and Ciran on the way to the 5-0 win in the opener.
 
Russell's two-run bomb plated sister Sydney to get the Greyhounds on the board in the fourth.  Two innings later, Williamson led off the sixth with a line-drive shot to extend the lead.
 
Taylor and Vleck scored the final two runs for the Hounds.  Russell walked and scored on an error, while Vleck beat out a bunt single and later crossed on a Jenny Thompson sac fly.
 
Foley (25-4) was once again brilliant in the circle.  The NFCA Player of the Year candidate limited Maryville to just two hits – both singles – while fanning six in six scoreless innings.
 
Ciran got the call in the final frame and spun a hitless seventh in her first action in a conference game this season.
 
GAME 2
Unlike the first game, the Hounds fell behind in the capper.  The Saints (12-27, 8-16) scored the first tally of the game without a base hit, using a hit batsman, a stolen base and two sacrifice bunts to push across a run.
 
Later, a solo homer from Sheridon Sprague put the visitors up 2-0 through four innings.
 
The Greyhounds managed a three-run fifth inning, however, to ultimately earn the "W".  Sophomore third baseman Katie Kelly started the rally with a leadoff single.  After a passed ball put her on second, S. Russell delivered an RBI knock up the middle to score Kelly and put the Hounds in the scoring column.
 
Williamson issued the game-winning blow one batter later, as her second home run of the day cleared the center field netting to put the home team up by one.
 
Maryville would later position the potential tying run at third but could not close the deal.
 
Junior Coryn Tirpak (5-4) got the pitching win, going 5 2/3 innings while allowing two runs.  Foley came on in the sixth to compete the four-out save.
 
Saturday proves to be a big day for the Hounds.  UIndy hosts No. 3 Missouri-St. Louis in a top-10 showdown starting at noon ET.  The Tritons (37-3, 22-2) are the only team ahead of the Greyhounds in the GLVC standings and in the latest regional rankings.
 
The probable starters for game one will be a pair of All-Americans, as Foley will go toe-to-toe with UMSL's ace Hannah Perryman.
 
In addition, UIndy is holding its annual Alumni Day Saturday and will welcome back a number of former players to Baumgartner Field.