WESTFIELD, IN – The No. 5 UIndy baseball team took game one on Saturday against Hillsdale 7-4. This extends the Greyhounds' win streak to four straight games.

Diego Cardenas picked up his second win in as many starts, pitching seven innings, striking out nine and only allowing two runs. This is the first time in Cardenas' career in which he's had at least two consecutive starts of six plus innings pitched, and nine plus strikeouts.

Armen Torosian and Austin Bode led the Hounds' offense, combining for five of UIndy's seven runs.

Saturday's game was moved to Grand Park Sports Campus in Westfield, IN today due to poor weather conditions at Mt. Dew Park in Marion, Ill.

GAME 1 | UIndy 7, Hillsdale 4
UIndy's Cardenas and Hillsdale's Daniel Higdon both pitched strong outings, each going five plus innings, and limiting both teams' offensive production early on, with both teams only combining for three runs in the first five innings. 

Hillsdale jumped out in front first in the second inning on an RBI triple, but Torosian responded for UIndy in the fourth inning with a two-run home run to left center field, giving the Hounds a 2-1 lead.

After Hillsdale knotted the game up on an RBI single in the sixth inning, UIndy answered with a strong sixth and seventh inning, led by a handful of Hounds.

Luke Smock, Trè Hondras, and Torosian  all drove in runs to extend UIndy's lead to 5-2 after seven. 

The Chargers mounted a comeback effort in the eighth inning, bringing in two runs to cut the lead to one, 5-4 after eight innings. But Bode's two-run RBI single, and Drake Downing's pitching performance in the eighth and ninth innings, closed out the 7-4 win for UIndy.

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UIndy will play a doubleheader in games two and three of the four game weekend series against Hillsdale on Sunday Feb. 23.