INDIANAPOLIS — The No. 25-ranked University of Indianapolis baseball team picked up wins No. 30 and No. 31 on Saturday, taking down the Truman State Bulldogs in a pair of exciting games.
Will Spear was the hero in game one, as with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth – in the normally scheduled seven inning contest – Spear sent a ball deep to right field for the game winning sacrifice fly to secure the Hounds win.
Game two saw
Drew Donaldson keep his hot streak going as he went 2 for 4 with two RBIs.
GAME 1 | UIndy 7, Truman 6
The Bulldogs got going early, plating four against
Carter Nowak in the first, taking advantage of early count pitches to do so.
Caleb Vaughn answered in the bottom half of the inning where he scored both
Cole Hampton and
Easton Good on a single to shallow left field, leaving it 4-2 after just a frame.
The hounds continued to chip away scratching across to in the fourth and one in the sixth to force extras. That sixth inning run came via the longball with
Cole Hampton hammering his team leading seventh of the year.
Home runs continued to fuel the Hounds as after a top of the eighth run by the Bulldogs,
Zack Williams led off the bottom half of the inning with a bomb of his own. From there it was big at bat after big at bat for the Hounds as
Luis Vergara drew a big walk to load the bases for Spear. Facing a 3-1 count, Spear did what he was asked and secured the game one win.
GAME 2 | UIndy 9, Truman 7
Unlike in game one, the Hounds were the aggressors early, plating runs in every inning except for the sixth. Hampton got the party started in the first, doubling to deep left center to give the Hounds the lead.
Nick Lukac added on in the second with his first homer of the season, an opposite field shot that fired up the UIndy crowd.
From there it was all UIndy up until the sixth. That was when the Bulldogs attempted to replicate the "Cardiac Hounds" style of baseball. But, thanks to a big save from
Austin Bestul, the Hounds survived and kept to their winnings way.
UP NEXT
Senior day is on the docket tomorrow as the Hounds will look to celebrate their seniors at Greyhound Park. Action is set for noon.
