INDIANAPOLIS – It is back to back sweeps for the University of Indianapolis baseball team, taking all three games of a homestand against Grand Valley State. The wins move the Hounds to 6-0 on the season.
Logan Peterson picked up his second win of the season, going seven innings while only giving up two earned runs on five hits.
Brandon DeWitt was the driving force of the Hounds lineup, going 4-5 with his first dinger of the season.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Peterson did not start out hot in the first, hitting the first batter he saw and walking the second. The Lakers took full advantage of the poor start, scoring a run off a Peterson error and another off of a double play, making it 2-0 after the first half of the first frame. DeWitt answered back immediately, pulling a ball over the right field fence to make it 1-0. Caleb Vaugh's bullet of a hit to the shortstop was too much to handle, netting him a single a little bit later. A Vaughn steal and
Denton Shepler single made it a brand new ballgame after the first.
The Lakers grabbed the lead once more in the top of the third, scoring off of a Jake Rydquist Single. Some tricky baserunning in the top of the fourth as well grabbed a run for the Lakers, making it 4-2.
Nick Lukac, the hero of the Saturday doubleheader, stayed hot, crushing a ball into left center, sending Shepler home.
The lefty stroke of the Hounds continued to provide power, with Shepler leading off the bottom of the sixth with a mammoth shot over the right field wall to tie it at 4-4. Later, poor pitch control by the Lakers resulted in a run being score and the Hounds regaining the lead.
The final runs of the contest came via a long home run by
Jared Bujdos, his second of the season, scoring
Brady Ware in the process and finding the final score of 7-4.
Frankie Klemm was lights out in the eighth in relief, with Ware coming in for the save.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- The Hounds only struck out six times in the contest
- Three different Hounds stole a bag, with DeWitt, Vaughn and
Easton Good helping elevate the Hounds baserunning numbers.
- Across the Grand Valley series, Lukac hit .636 with a 1.727 OPS in his three starts at third.
UP NEXT
The Hounds have the incoming weekend off, not playing again until March. 7 where they host the Purdue Northwest Pride, with the first pitch of the first game coming at 1 p.m. and the second game set to start at 4 p.m.
