INDIANAPOLIS – The University of Indianapolis baseball team split day one of a four-game set with the visiting William Jewell Cardinals. Originally scheduled over three days, the Hounds moved their GLVC-set to a two-day doubleheader format. Jewell picked up the first game win in seven, winning 17-3, but the Greyhounds refused to roll over, winning game two 8-3.
 
Will Spear had a solid offensive day, recording an RBI in the first contest and two in the second. Brady Ware, nearing a week removed from history, pitched an excellent game two, going five and two-thirds with three earned runs and six punchouts.
 
GAME 1 | JEWELL 17, UINDY 3
Game one was a struggle for the Hounds. The Cardinals put their foot on the gas early, scoring in the first and the third. The Hounds went onto answer in the second and the fifth, but big innings in the fourth and the ninth were enough to put the Hounds away.
 
Drew Donaldson went 3-3 with a double and a walk while Denton Shepler also picked up an RBI in the loss. Despite the result, Seth Spencer walked away with only three earned runs, striking out four over five frames.
 
GAME 2 | UINDY 8, JEWELL 3
The second matchup didn't start too hot for the Hounds, giving up a sacrifice fly in the first to give the Cardinals a 1-0 lead. They added onto that with a towering shot over the left center wall in the second and it looked like it was going to be a repeat of the first day contest.
 
Back-to-back doubles by the "Twin Shredders" in Nick Lukac and Jared Bujdos fought that notion, however, giving the Hounds their first run of the contest. Spear made his presence known just an at bat later, crushing a ball into center, scoring Bujdos. Ware, the man, the myth, the legend, was the next on the scoring train, roping a ball into right field scoring both Donaldson and Easton Good. A Cardinal Wild pitch would score the final run of the second making it 6-3.
 
A towering Donaldson dinger into right-center field added another in the sixth. While the long-ball was working, small ball was too with Zack Williams squaring around on a second and third suicide squeeze, allowing the lighting fast Vaughn to score the eighth run of the contest.
 
UP NEXT
The same schedule is on deck tomorrow for the Hounds as they finish the series with Jewell Cardinals. Noon is the scheduled fist pitch for tomorrow's doubleheader.