MARION, Ill. – The UIndy baseball team dropped its second game of the GLVC Championship Tournament, 10-7, behind eight unanswered runs from Missouri-St. Louis in the final three innings.
These two sides have played 64 times before today, with UIndy leading the all-time series 43-21. The Tritons and Hounds have only met once before in the GLVC Tournament, when the Greyhounds won 8-3 in 2001.
The bats continued to stay hot for UIndy, with seven Greyhounds connecting for at least one hit, and the first three batters in the order for the Hounds; Austin Bode, Chase Mason and Easton Good, all recording multi-hit games.
Today's game was moved from last night to today due to an over three hour delay in game one on Thursday between Maryville and Missouri S&T.
INS & OUTS
After UMSL scored the game's first two runs of the game in the first inning, the Hounds scored in four consecutive innings starting in the third. Bode, Good and Nick Lukac recorded the first three runs of the game, on a sacrifice fly, a dropped fly ball and an RBI single. Brayton Bowen and Mason capped the scoring onslaught for the Hounds with a three run moonshot to left field from Bowen, and an RBI single from Mason to make the game 7-2 UIndy after six innings.
Diego Cardenas started this one on the mound for UIndy, pitching a full seven innings, which marks his fourth outing this season with at least seven innings pitched. He finished the day with four strikeouts, five earned runs and a season high 15 hits against, but was able to keep the Hounds ahead 7-5 after giving up three runs in the seventh inning.
After Cardenas exited the game, the Hounds used four relievers who combined to give up six of the Tritons eight unanswered runs in the final three frames. Two singles, a sacrifice fly, a wild pitch and an RBI double were what got UMSL back out in front 10-7 after the top of the ninth inning.
The Hounds were unable to get any runner aboard in the bottom of the ninth, after Dustin Hagens closed things out for UMSL, picking up his first save of the season, and sending UMSL to the next round of the winner's bracket in the GLVC Championship Tournament.
UP NEXT
UIndy has a quick turnaround, as they'll look to work their way through the loser's bracket now, with their next game being a rematch against No. 4 Drury tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET, with the winner set to take on No. 2 Illinois Springfield. The Hounds took down Drury in game one of the GLVC Tournament, 9-8 in extra innings on Wednesday.
