INDIANAPOLIS – The UIndy baseball team played 11 innings of baseball on Tuesday, but in one of the more unique ways. The Greyhounds kicked off their midweek battle with the Lake Erie storm, finalizing a contest that dated back to Feb. 17 at Mercy Health Stadium in Avon, OH in a three-way hosted by the Notre Dame College Falcons where they had snow halt their first battle with the storm in the eighth inning, with the score tied 6-6.
 
The teams finished that contest today at Greyhound Park, with the Storm taking the victory 7-6. The Hounds, despite the setback, came to play in game two using 17 walks issued by the Storm to win 16-9.
 
In game two, five different players recorded multiple free passes in the bout, with Easton Good – three – and Dom Brown – four – leading the Hounds. Outside of walks, the Hounds saw Good, Caleb Vaughn and Dakota Sill record multi-hit days, with the RBI leader going to Zack Williams with three on the day, two of coming via a big sixth-inning double.
 
GAME 1 | Lake Erie 7, UIndy 6
In game one of the abnormal doubleheader, the Hounds were the ones to take the early advantage back on Feb. 17 with a Cole Hampton RBI single into right in the first frame of action. Good applied a sacrifice bunt in the second frame to give the Hounds the early 2-0 lead. That lead evaporated as quickly as they got it as a single and double in the fourth tied it at two.
 
Picking up their starter Dawson Gabe, the Hounds etched across a trio of runs in the bottom half of the fourth, with Good and Brayton Bowen notching ribbies in the process. The Storm continued to claw back in as a run in the sixth and a three-spot in the seventh gave them their first lead of the contest. Situation hitting by Vaughn kept brought the score back tied as the game was halted heading into the top of the eighth.
 
With the game resumed in Indianapolis, both teams were silenced in the eighth as E.J White elicited a one-two-three frame. A walk and a sac bunt left a runner at second in the top of the ninth for White as a single down the left field line scored the eventual winning run for the storm.
 
GAME 2 | UIndy 16, Lake Erie 9
As the first conventional game of the day began, the Hounds attacked early, scratching across a crooked number in the first frame and a pair of runs in both the second and the third. Vaughn was a big part of all three frames as he crushed a two RBI double in the second and used his speed to catch the Storm fielders dozing.
 
 
The Storm went blow-for-blow with the Hounds up until the fifth where a big four spot by the home team marked the beginning of the end for the visitors. A Donaldson RBI walk with bases juiced kicked off the scoring a Zack Williams recorded a RBI sac fly and eventually Sill delivered the death blow with a crushed double into left.
 
 
From that point on it was continued poor pitching by the Storm that kept setting the Hounds up with them walking Dom Brown with bases loaded and hitting Bryce Goodwine right after to score the 15th and 16th run of the contest for the Hounds.
 
UP NEXT
The Hounds will return to GLVC-action on the road, this time heading west to face the McKendree Bearcats. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, the Hounds and Cats will be off campus. On the first day of the four game set they will battle it out on the campus of Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville in Edwardsville, Ill. with that set to begin at 2 p.m. CST. They will play games two through four of the set at GCS Ballpark – home of the Gateway Grizzlies.