BOLIVAR, Mo – The opening contest of a four-game road series at Southwest Baptist started with a bang for the UIndy baseball team, going for seven doubles, four dingers and an outstanding 18 hits in the process of a 15-2 victory in seven innings.

Seth Spencer got the start on the bump, going five innings with only one earned run for his fourth win of the year. His despite handing out eight free passes, Spencer was quality, giving up only three hits in his series opener.

Offensively there were a plethora of Greyhounds to fill up the scorebook, but Caleb Vaughn and Isaac Bair stood out, each grabbing three RBIs. Vaughn utilized the longball, hitting his fifth AND sixth of the season with them accounting for all his RBIs. Bair had his best game of the season, going 3-4 from the plate with a pair of doubles and a dinger to his name.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Hounds woke up feeling dangerous, and that showed in the first three frames of the contest. Bair was the first to the bomb party, crushing a ball to the left center to make it 2-0. Just a frame later Drew Donaldson would get his, going oppo. Seeing Drewby's bomb, Vaughn had to match it, launching a ball over the left field wall making it three dingers in the same amount of innings.

The fourth saw the runs keep piling on for the Greyhounds with Easton Good playing some situational baseball, floating a ball into center for a sacrifice fly. Brandon DeWitt, Donaldson and Brady Ware were the closeouts for the inning, combining for three more runs in the fourth. The inning was bookended well, with Zack Williams earning a sacrifice fly just as Good had done to start the frame.

With a now 9-0 deficit, the Bearcats poking across one in the fourth and one in the fifth, but that was all the offense that would be had for the Cats. The Hounds piled on even further in the sixth, grabbing three more runs via another Z-Willy sac fly and a pair of singles by the left side of the infield in Nick Lukac and Good.

Ending the day, Vaughn added insult to injury, homering for the second time of the day for his first career multi-homer game this season.

UP NEXT
Doubleheader Saturday is on deck for the Hounds tomorrow, starting at 1 p.m. ET in Bolivar, Mo.