INDIANAPOLIS – The No. 15 UIndy softball team (31-11, 14-5 GLVC) salvaged a split with visiting Quincy University Sunday, with both games of the twin bill needing extra innings for a verdict. After logging a lot of time and effort in the morning to get their home field ready, the Greyhounds dropped the opener in eight innings, 7-6, before overcoming an eight-run deficit in game two to win in walk-off fashion in the ninth, 9-8.
 
GAME 1 | Quincy 7, UIndy 6 (8 inn.)
With Hounds leading heading into the seventh, the Hawks (16-23, 6-15) scored twice to force extras before pushing across the go-ahead run in the top of the eighth; Quincy's leadoff hitter reached on an error and ultimately came home on a suicide squeeze play.
 
Freshman Haylie Foster went 3 for 3 at the dish to lead the Hounds offensively. She managed a double and a run scored in the third before clubbing her first collegiate home run with a two-run shot in the fourth.

Brooke Montgomery and Taylor Podschweit each added two hits.
 
GAME 2 | UIndy 9, Quincy 8 (9 inn.)
The second contest also went past the regulation seven frames, with the Greyhounds completing an unlikely comeback to eventually get the win.
 
The Hawks piled on with eight unanswered runs in the first four frames, including five in the third alone, to put the Hounds in a deep hole. But UIndy went to work on the deficit, starting with a five-run frame of its own in the bottom of the fourth. Ten Hounds came to the plate that inning, with Montgomery, Podschweit and Julia Liceaga each delivering an RBI single. The Greyhounds manufactured three runs in the sixth as well, setting up more extra innings.
 
With the score knotted at 8-8 through eight and a half, the Hounds led off the bottom of the ninth with back-to-back bunt singles from Jessie Noone and Hanna Burris. Both were moved over by a sacrifice from Liceaga before the Hawks pitched around Montgomery in hopes of a potential force play at home.
 
It never came, however, as Taylor Danielson lifted a 0-1 pitch to deep right field which hooked out of fair territory but still in play. The Hawk right fielder opted to catch the ball, allowing the speedy Noone to cross easily with the game winner.
 
It made a winner out of pitcher Lauren Honkomp (12-5), who coming in and got the Hounds out of a second-and-third, one-out situation in the top of the ninth.
 
But it was Halie Waters that kept the game close and allowed the Hounds time to come back. The freshman reliever was the third Greyhound to throw a pitch in a troublesome third inning, but she went on to hang zeros in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth before finishing with a line six hits, two runs and two strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings.
 
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The Greyhounds are scheduled to host non-conference but in-region Walsh for a doubleheader Wednesday, April 18 starting at 3 p.m. ET.