ROMEOVILLE, Ill. – The No. 20-ranked University of Indianapolis baseball team made its first major accomplishment of the season, clinching the Great Lakes Valley Conference regular season title by defeating Lewis in the second game of the doubleheader.
 
The Hounds dropped the first game of the twill bill 7-4, falling just short of a big seventh-inning comeback, but rebounded and more in game two, scratching across a big six-run second frame to give them a lead they never lost.
 
Caleb Vaughn hammered a grand slam in the seventh of game one while Easton Good led the Hounds in the second affair with a three-RBI bout.
 
GAME 1 | Lewis 7, UIndy 4
After a lockdown first inning by Jackson Kirkpatrick, the Flyers used some timely patience in the second inning to score a pair of bases-loaded walks that signaled the end of the day for Kirk. With Payton Plym coming in for relief with the bases still juiced Mikey Kocen golfed a 3-2 slider deep over the centerfield wall to make it a six run inning for the home team.
 
That lead held for the remainder of the game, with it taking until the top of the seventh for the Hounds to respond. Two walks and a single loaded the bases for Caleb Vaughn who blasted a ball over the dead-center wall to bring the lead down to three. The Cardiac Hounds got started too late however, failing to convert the comeback.
 
GAME 2 | UIndy 10, Lewis 6
The Flyers scratched across a run in the bottom of the first, but with the Hounds already hot from the first game, it didn't take long for them to respond. The Hounds started with a RBI-bunt by Bryce Goodwine which started a cycle of Hounds success. From there, Easton Good, Drew Donaldson and Zack Williams went single after single to make it 6-1.
 

HE IS SPEED! ??

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— UIndy Baseball (@UIndyBaseball) May 3, 2024

 
The Flyers attempted to comeback in the third and fourth, scratching a three in the third and one in the fourth. But the Hounds kept going blow-for-blow, punching back with three in the top of the fifth with the final run coming via a Good sac bunt. Cole Hampton tallied another in the sixth with a big RBI double in the sixth.
 

GOOD OL' COUNTRY HARDBALL! ??

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— UIndy Baseball (@UIndyBaseball) May 3, 2024

 
UP NEXT
The Greyhounds will go for the split on Saturday with the Flyers. First pitch in Romeoville is set for 1 p.m. ET.