INDIANAPOLIS – It is now 13 wins in a row for the University of Indianapolis baseball team and a perfect 11-0 in GLVC-action after they swept the Southwest Baptist Bearcats on Saturday afternoon.
 
Carter Nowak was the star of the show during game one, going complete from the mound in the Hounds 9-2 victory. Nowak limited the Bearcats to just three hits across seven frames, striking out ten and only walking two.
 
For game two, it was the birthday boy Easton Good who set the tone with a leadoff home run. He later plated another run on route to a 3 for 4 day as the Hounds leadoff man.
 
GAME 1 | UIndy 9, SBU 2
One of the only two extra-base hits the Bearcats recorded across all seven frames came in the first frame. A triple down the right field line scored the first Bearcat run of the ballgame, a feat they replicated in the top of the third, launching their other XBH for their second run of the contest.
 
Looking to support Nowak's efforts, the Hounds finally broke open the ballgame with a four-run third, the big punch coming from a Zack Williams 3 RBI triple deep down the right-field line.
 
 
The offense of the Hounds did not lay off the gas from there as they slapped up runs in the next three frames with Williams continuing his big day with another pair of ribbies off a hot single up the middle in the fourth. Both Nick Lukac and Drew Donaldson tallied RBI as well through the stretch.
 
Nowak went on to shut down the Bearcats after the third, attacking the visitors early in counts on way to his third win of the year.
 
GAME 2 | UIndy 12, SBU 10
On just the second pitch of the ballgame, Good set the pace with a dome scraping bomb to right field, setting off what ended up being a 10-run first frame for the Hounds.
 
 
Hampton nearly made it a multi-homer inning in the first, but the wind denied him scoring the second XBH of the frame and the second run. From that point, poor pitching by the Bearcats scored four more runs before a sac fly by Donaldson plated another. Situational hitting and more bases-loaded walks left the first heavy in the Hounds favor.
 
Two more runs were enough for the Hounds in the second as they rode out the 12-run lead through the remainder of the contest. The Bearcats didn't roll over, however, clawing back into the ballgame with big fourth and fifth frames, bringing it to the final score.
 
E.J. White captured his fifth save of the season, coming in and eliciting three fly balls in the seventh to shut down the ballgame.
 
HOUND BYTES
 
UP NEXT
The series finale and a chance at win 14 in a row is on deck for the Hounds as they will battle it out with the SBU Bearcats one last time at Greyhound Park at noon on Sunday.