INDIANAPOLIS – The No. 11 UIndy softball team (27-7, 14-2 GLVC) settled for a spilt Sunday afternoon, trading wins with Bellarmine at Baumgartner field. The Greyhounds won their 11th consecutive game with a 6-0 shutout in game one, then fell 5-2 to the talented Knights in game two.
Casey Williamson added to her ever-growing catalog of school records, as the senior center fielder passed former-teammate Jennifer DeMotte for first on the UIndy career walks list.
GAME 1The early and middle innings featured quite the pitchers' duel. All-region hurlers
Morgan Foley and Ally Foster went toe-to-toe for five scoreless frames apiece before the Greyhounds finally broke through in the sixth.
RBI doubles from
Taylor Russell and
Jenny Thompson plated the first two runs of the game. Russell followed that up with a grand slam in the seventh to break it open. The salami was the second of her career and second by a Greyhound in as many days (Williamson).
Meanwhile, Foley (21-3) completed her fourth shutout of the season, striking out 13 and allowing just two hits, while Foster (14-2) endured just her second loss of the season.
In addition to her extra-base hit in the sixth, Thompson also gunned down a Bellarmine base runner trying to steal third.
GAME 2BU starter Alicia Miller limited the Greyhounds to just one hit in the first five innings – a bunt single by Russell. UIndy finally got on the board in the fifth thanks to base hits from
Katie Kelly,
Erika Goodwin and Williamson, with the latter good for an RBI.
The Hounds' only other run came in the top of the seventh on a pinch-hit bomb from
Cassie Reed, good for her first collegiate home run.
Junior
Coryn Tirpak (2-4) took the loss, allowing four runs and seven hits in 4 2/3 innings.
UIndy's schedule shows five straight home doubleheaders, starting with a twin bill versus in-region Urbana Thursday, April 9 starting at 3 p.m.
Note: With Sunday's game originally scheduled to be played at Bellarmine, the Knights were the designated home team and thus batted last in every inning. Flooding in the Louisville area prompted the move.
