ROLLA, Mo.—For the second straight day, sixth-ranked UIndy softball team garnered a road doubleheader split, wrapping up the regular season with a 1-0 win and a 4-1 defeat at Missouri S&T. Junior All-American
Kenzee Smith headlined the day with a complete game shutout in game one.
The victory pushed the Greyhounds' GLVC win total to 20 for the fourth time in the last four complete seasons and 10th time overall.
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GAME 1 | UIndy 1, S&T 0
After the Greyhounds pushed across the lone run of the game in the top of the first, Smith was on point. She surrendered just two hits and two walks in her second shutout of the weekend, fanning nine along the way. A fielding error in the bottom of the sixth accounted for the Miners' only base runner across the final five innings.
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Despite trailing the entire game, S&T starter Bryn Woolridge had a no-hitter going until the top of the seventh. The Hounds managed their one and only hit of the contest on a single up the middle from freshman
Shelby Cook.
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GAME 2 | S&T 4, UIndy 1
The Hounds once again got on the board first, with
Sydnee Perry's RBI single in the second staking UIndy to the early lead. But the Miners responded with a game-tying home run from Rachel Smith in the next half inning.
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Smith struck again with a go-ahead RBI single in the third, giving the Miners a lead they would not relinquish.
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Kaitlyn Brown got the starting nod in the circle, lasting 1 2/3 innings.
Alexa Huth (3-1) got the Hounds out of the second, but the freshman reliever would surrender the decisive runs in the third to earn her fist collegiate loss.
Jayden Casebolt finished the game by striking out five and allowing one run in 3 2/3 innings of work.
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Perry finished 2-for-3 at the dish, while
Lexy Rees had a double and a run scored.
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UP NEXT
The GLVC Championship Tournament is on tap. As the regular season champs, the Greyhounds earned the No. 1 seed in the eight-team, double-elimination bracket. More details coming at UIndyAthletics.com.
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