fROMEOVILLE, Ill. – The No. 20-ranked University of Indianapolis baseball team trailed by seven runs heading into the seventh inning against the Lewis Flyers, and as they had done so many times this season, they activated a little Cardiac Hounds magic plating 12 runs over the next three innings including a massive eight-run seventh.
 
The win not only spoiled the Flyers senior day but gave the Hounds ample momentum heading into the conference tournament where they're likely to face the Flyers once again.
 
Jacob Flaherty was the hero of the pitching staff, sitting down nine Flyers from the sixth through the eighth, including a perfect 1-2-3 seventh frame. The junior out of Cincinnati, Ohio gave up just one hit, a home run in the eighth, while punching out three.
 
From the plate it was Caleb Vaughn and Easton Good who combined for eight of the Greyhounds 14 total runs. Vaughn added a pair of doubles while Good hammered a big two run shot in the top of the ninth to ice the contest.
 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
Dawson Gabe toed the slab for the Hounds in the finale and tossed up a pair of zeros through the first two frames. The long ball for the Flyers eventually came into play as they hammered five balls out of the park off Gabe to amount to a 9-2 lead.
 
The big inning came for the Hounds in the seventh though as a Good shallow-infield single scored Eli Burkhart from third. Continued sloppy pitching from Lewis then allowed Zack Williams and Cole Hampton to nab free-RBIs. The final blow and the lead for the Hounds came in the pinch-hit at bat for Luis Vergara where a big single up the middle scored Dakota Sill and gave the Hounds their first lead.
 
 
Vaughn and Sill added more in the eighth, ballooning the Hound lead to 12-9. Two more Flyer home runs sandwiched Good's missile over the right field wall, leaving it 14-13.
 
UP NEXT
The UIndy baseball team awaits to see how the rest of the conference ends their regular season, but as it stands they will face an incredibly familiar foe in the Lewis Flyers on Wednesday, May 8th in the GLVC Conference Tournament. Stay tuned to @UIndybaseball on X for updates.