TIFFIN, Ohio – The seventh-seeded UIndy softball team on Friday crafted one of the biggest comebacks its lengthy postseason history, downing GLVC-rival Lewis, 7-4, to move to tomorrow's NCAA DII Midwest Regional 2 final. The Greyhounds trailed 4-0 after four innings before scoring in each of the final three frames, including a go-ahead four-run rally in the top of the seventh.
 
UIndy's Saturday opponent will be Hillsdale, who defeated both Tiffin and Lewis to join the Hounds in the 1 p.m. final. The Chargers will need to defeat the Greyhounds twice to move on the the Super Regional, while UIndy needs just a single win to advance.
 
INS & OUTS
The outcome became far from certain after Lewis—the GLVC's co-regular season champion—tacked on two runs in the third and two more in the fourth, with the latter rally chasing UIndy's No. 1-starter Cheyenne Eads.

But senior pitcher Jayden Casebolt came on to get the Hounds out of the inning and proceeded to hang three more zeros on the board to give the Hounds a chance.

In the top of the fifth, back-to-back RBI doubles from Brooklyn Willis and Cara Cooper halved the Flyer lead. Cooper's knock gave her 22 doubles on the year, breaking the program's single-season record set by Casey Williamson in 2012.
 

Congrats to Cara Cooper, our a new single-season doubles queen! ?? pic.twitter.com/3vHOEZcOQd

— UIndy Softball (@UIndySoftball) May 9, 2025

In the sixth, Casebolt helped herself with a two-out single, scoring Sydney Oliver and bringing the Greyhounds to within one.

Casebolt retired the Flyers without incident in the bottom half of the sixth, setting the stage for a thrilling seventh. Willis led off the inning in emphatic fashion, sending a 0-1 pitch over the leftfield fence to tie it up.

Doubles from Cooper and Eads sandwiched a costly Lewis error, collectively accounting for two more tallies. Oliver followed with a bloop hit before Maya Rodriguez's single up the middle scored Eads with the Hounds' seventh and final run.
 

What a seventh inning!! ??#D2SB x #ONEHOUND

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— UIndy Softball (@UIndySoftball) May 9, 2025

Casebolt finished her first appearance of the postseason by tossing a 1-2-3 seventh to seal the victory. She finished with a line of 3 2/3 innings, two hits, zero walks and zero runs, moving her record  to 13-6 in the process.

FUN FACT
UIndy has now won 40 games or more in each of the last six full seasons.