ST. LOUIS—The No. 6 UIndy softball team traded wins with Missouri-St. Louis Saturday afternoon, blanking the host Tritons, 3-0, before falling in the capper, 3-1. The latter result snapped a 12-game winning streak for the Greyhounds.
 
Saturday's matchup featured the top two teams in the GLVC standings, though UIndy had already clinched the conference's regular season title last weekend.
 
GAME 1 | UIndy 3, UMSL 0
With UIndy ace Kenzee Smith doing her part from the circle, five full innings would pass before a single run was scored, and it was the Hounds that broke the seal in the top of the sixth on a clutch hit from Piper Belden.
 
With two outs and the bases juiced, Head Coach Melissa Frost went to her bench and called upon the lefthanded-swinging Belden. The senior out of Greenwood, Ind., delivered with a gap-finding liner to the opposite field, plating all three base runners to put the Greyhounds in front.
 

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Piper Belden's pinch-hit, bases-loaded double puts the Hounds in front in top of the 6th! pic.twitter.com/YzXUjyRHMv

— UIndy Athletics (@UIndyAthletics) April 29, 2023

 
Smith (27-3) finished the job with a 1-2-3 seventh, fanning the final two batters to up her strikeout total to six for the day. The outing was good for her ninth shutout of the season.
 
Junior shortstop Sydnee Perry finished 2-for-3 at the plate with a run scored as the also Greyhound with more than one base hit.
 
GAME 2 | UMSL 3, UIndy 1
UIndy struck quickly in the second, earning a 1-0 lead in the top of the first. LEadoff hitter Jocelyn Calvin dropped a tailing flyball just inside the rightfield line for a standup triple and crossed the plate two batters later on Emily O'Connor's RBI groundout.
 
That was the whole of the Greyhounds' scoring, however, as UMSL game-two starter Annie Scaramuzzi (5-3) went on to retire 13 consecutive UIndy batters and finish with a one-hit shutout.
 
All three of the Tritons' tallies came via the long ball, including back-to-back solo shots in the bottom of the fourth. Starter Jayden Casebolt (10-2) was charged with all three runs to endure just her second loss in 14 starts on the year. Freshman Alexa Huth pitched the final 2 2/3 innings without allowing a run.
 
UP NEXT
The Greyhound wrap up the regular season tomorrow at Missouri S&T. First pitch is set for 1 p.m. ET.