ST. LOUIS – The University of Indianapolis baseball team wrapped up their series with the UMSL Tritons with a day-two doubleheader split. The Tritons took the opening seven-inning game by a score of 3-2.
That loss was avenged and more in the second where the Hounds plated 18 runs in a 18-8 blowout. That run total marks the ninth time the UIndy baseball team has scored double-digit runs this season. In comparison, the Hounds only had ten such games all last season.
Drew Donaldson continued to rake, hitting his third dinger of the season in game one. Game two featured a three headed monster of RBIs with
Caleb Vaughn launching his second dinger of the weekend and grabbing two walks.
Jared Bujdos was a large focus of the Hounds seventh inning seven-run onslaught, crushing a no-doubt about it home run for three RBIs on the day. Finally, with only one at bat,
Brayton Bowen, notched another double on the season, plating three.
GAME 1, UMSL 3, UINDY 2
The closest scoring game of the four, the Greyhound got on the board first with Bujdos roping a ball into centerfield. However, UMSL went blow for blow, hitting a solo shot over the left field wall to even the score. Donaldson, who is top ten in several different hitting metrics in the GLVC, made it a tie ballgame with a homer of his own.
A two run single by the Triton's in the bottom of the third made it 3-2.
Logan Peterson went onto to throw two more innings of scoreless ball followed up by a gem of a inning by
Wyatt Phillips, but the Greyhound hitters couldn't answer.
GAME 2, UINDY 18, UMSL 8
In the wise words of Greyhound skipper
Al Ready, "we can hit," and the Greyhounds showed that off in game two of the doubleheader. UIndy had a collective 1.198 OPS in the second game, sending two out of the park, with four doubles and four stolen bases.
Brady Ware got the party started with a two RBI double in the first. But, after UMSL runs in the second and the third it might have been another tight contest. That thought went out the window in the fourth when
Easton Good crushed a double into left center. A
Brandon DeWitt single and then a two RBI bomb from
Caleb Vaughn capped off a three run inning for the Hounds.
Another Good double in the fifth and then a
Nick Lukac single in the sixth added on two more to the amassing run total. The seventh, however, is where the damage was delt. Donaldson, Ware,
Denton Shepler and Lukac each added one run, but Bujdos laid the hammer down with a towering shot to make it 15-6.
In a pinch hit spot, Bowen, made all of the opportunity, roping a ball down the right field line in the top of the ninth to give the Hounds three more runs.
UP NEXT
The Hounds do not have a long respite before more action, heading to Hammond, Ind. to face off against Purdue Northwest on Tuesday in a battle of the only remaining NCAA Division II schools in Indiana.
