QUINCY, Ill. – Junior Morgan Foley became the second active Division II pitcher to surpass 1,000 career strikeouts Friday, helping the UIndy softball team to a doubleheader sweep at Quincy.  The ninth-ranked Greyhounds (37-9, 22-4 GLVC) earned a pair of comeback wins – 3-2 and 5-3 – versus the Hawks as Foley earned the pitching victory in both ends of a doubleheader.
 
Foley (28-4) finished the day with 1,010 career Ks, second only to Missouri-St. Louis' Hannah Perryman (1,041) among all active D-II hurlers.
 
GAME 1
Quincy (18-26, 7-19) put Foley and the Hounds in an earlier hole when a leadoff walk and a two-run homer from senior Kelsey Key gave the home team a 2-0 advantage in the bottom of the first.
 
Foley settled down from that point, however, as only one base runner got as far as third base the balance of the game.  Strikeout No. 1,000 came in the fourth inning when Key went down swinging on a full count offering.  Foley finished with 11 Ks and three walks in the complete-game effort.
 
Meanwhile, the Greyhound offense slowly went to work on the Quincy lead.  Sophomore Natalie Lalich starting the scoring with a solo shot in the fourth, good for her ninth round tripper of year.
 
The very next inning, Taylor Weck drew a leadoff walk and later scored the tying run on an Erika Goodwin single.
 
Weck delivered more heroics to start the seventh and final frame, driving the first pitch of the inning into the left-center gap for a double.  After a wild pitch advanced her to third base, the Plainfield, Ill., product crossed the plate with the game winner thanks to Katie Kelly's sac fly.
 
GAME 2
UIndy returned the first-inning favor in game two, scoring twice in the opening frame to build the early edge.  Goodwin started the contest with a free pass, followed by a single by Sydney Russell.  They later scored on consecutive singles by Casey Williamson and Taylor Russell.
 
Junior pitcher Coryn Tirpak got the start in game two and battled for 3 1/3 innings but eventually surrendered the lead back to the Hawks in the fourth.  Now trailing 3-2 with runners at second and third and only one out, the Hounds went back to Foley, who got a harmless ground ball and a strikeout to end the threat.
 
With the Quincy offense once again stifled, UIndy generated single runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to ultimately earn the sweep.  UIndy tied it with an RBI knock from Williamson that scored Goodwin, while the decisive blow came on a one-run single by Kelly that plated freshman Jessie Noone.
 
UIndy wraps up the regular season with a twin bill at Truman State Sunday starting at 1 p.m. ET.