MARION, Ill. – The No. 5-seeded UIndy baseball team bowed out of the GLVC Championship Tournament at the hands of No. 4-seeded Drury in a 10-8 late night thriller that saw 18 runs and 29 hits combined between the two teams.

This was the sixth meeting between these two teams this season, and the second of the GLVC Tournament, with the Panthers taking the season series 4-2 over the Greyhounds, Almost every game these two sides played this season was jam packed with offense, with double digit runs being scored in all but one game, and at least 20 hits combined in four of those six games played.

Tonight's game also saw 11 batters between both teams record multi-hit games, including five for the Greyhounds; Bret Perry, Cole Hampton, Easton Good, Ian Kennedy, and Nick Lukac.

INS & OUTS
Like every game so far in the GLVC tournament for UIndy, the Hounds offense came out on fire. They scored five of the game's first seven runs, with the highlight moment in that early barrage being from Ian Kennedy who hit a three run home run in the bottom of the first to put UIndy ahead 4-0. Nick Lukac was responsible for the other two UIndy runs in the first and third innings with an RBI single and double to put UIndy in front 5-2 after three.

Carter Nowak got the start for the Greyhounds in game two of the day. The redshirt junior had a solid outing for UIndy tonight, pitching 5.2 innings on 90 pitches while punching out six and allowing four runs on 10 hits.

The Panthers continued to make good contact with the ball all game and were finally rewarded with a three run sixth inning that consisted of two singles that drove in the three Drury runs off of UIndy's Frankie Klemm to knot the game at five a piece after six.

But most of the drama in this one came late, as there were eight runs scored and 10 hits in the final two frames. Drury's Logan Reidelberger pushed Drury out in front 7-5 in the top of the eighth on an RBI double, but Good and Perry both recorded bases loaded singles in the bottom of the eighth to square the game back up.

With things all tied headed to the ninth, and Klemm still on the mound for the third straight game, the Hounds looked to hang on, but were unable to as Drury tacked on three runs with two outs to extend their lead to 10-7. Brayton Bowen got one run back for the Hounds in the bottom of the ninth, but it was not enough as Drury advanced to the next round of the GLVC Tournament to take on Illinois Springfield with a 10-8 victory over UIndy.

UP NEXT
With the loss tonight, the Hounds' GLVC title run comes to end, but that does not mean the end of their season, as the team still has the hopes of a third consecutive NCAA Super Regional title. They will learn their fate on Sunday night at 9 p.m. in the NCAA DII Selection Show.