INDIANAPOLIS – The No. 12 UIndy softball team (23-5, 7-1 GLVC) recorded two more GLVC wins Friday, downing visiting Bellarmine (10-16, 1-7) by scores of 2-1 and 6-3. Both teams wore special "Team Liam" jerseys in support of Liam Ealy, a muscular dystrophy patience and nephew of Greyhound softball alum Megan (Hall) Slightom.
 
The Hounds are continuing to accept donations to the MDA on behalf of Liam, who will be the guest of honor at the team's April 14 game.
 
UIndy 2, Bellarmine 1
Game one started as an epic pitchers' duel. The two hurlers – UIndy's Lauren Honkomp and Bellarmine's Sabrina Fussenegger – combined to retire the first 21 batter of the day. An error came in the bottom of the fourth and the game's first hit in the top of the fifth, but the score remained 0-0 until the Greyhound bats came alive in the bottom of the fifth.
 
After going hitless for the first four frames, UIndy roped three doubles to the same right-center gap to hang two runs on the board. Cathy Skaggs, Shannon Schuetz and Gianni Iannantone each had a two-bagger in the rally, with the latter two earning RBIs.
 
The Knights pushed across a run in the seventh and put the potential go-ahead score on second with two outs, but Honkomp (8-2) recorded her fourth and final strikeout of the game to end the threat and secure the complete-game victory.
 
UIndy 6, Bellarmine 3
Julia Liceaga's two-run double in the second gave the Hounds a 2-0 lead that held until they broke it open in the sixth when Schuetz once again flexed her muscles. The junior from Aviston, Ill., connected for her second grand slam in five days to give the Hounds a 6-0 advantage in the bottom of the sixth. She is the first Greyhound with two grand slams in a season since Taylor Russell in 2015.
 

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Freshman Haylie Foster (8-1) got the pitching win, going the distance while striking out five. She tossed six scoreless innings before the Knights managed an ultimately meaningless three-run homer in the seventh.
 
Skaggs finished with a combined four hits on the day.
 
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With a wintry forecast in the cards for Central Indiana this weekend, the Greyhounds' scheduled home doubleheader versus the University of Southern Indiana Sunday has been moved to the opponent's field in Evansville. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET.