JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – The UIndy baseball team split its first two games of this weekend's four game series against Davenport, in a rematch of last season's NCAA Midwest Regional.
In game one the Hounds and Panthers battled in an epic 11 inning thriller that saw 33 combined runs and 43 combined hits, with the Hounds prevailing 17-16. While in game two, Davenport continued its hot hitting, racking up 16 runs in a 16-6 win over the Hounds.
Austin Bode showed out for the Greyhounds today, racking up eight hits, six RBIs, five runs and three home runs in two games played. His three home runs all came in game one, and marked his first three-run home run game in his collegiate career. This is also the first game for a Greyhound player with three home runs since 2022 when Caleb Vaughn hit three against Missouri S&T.
GAME 1 | UIndy 17, Davenport 16 (11 inn.)
These teams are no strangers to high scoring affairs, the Hounds and Panthers played six times in 2025 and had 20 or more runs scored in three of those six contests. Today was no different with 33 runs and 43 hits continuing the trend of last season.
The Greyhounds found success off the Panthers pitching rotation, scoring eight of the team's first 10 runs off of four combined home runs from; Bode, Brayton Bowen and Garrett Rusch. Chase Mason and Gavin Duran also got in on the action with an RBI triple and single of their own to give the Hounds a 10-6 lead after five innings.
After Bode's third home run of the game in the top of the ninth, the Greyhounds held a three run lead, 13-10, headed to the bottom half of the frame. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Davenport found life, driving home three runs to send the game to extras, where the teams would combine for seven more runs.
Mason and Joey Humphrey added the Greyhounds' sixth and seventh home runs of the contest in the top of the 10th to push the UIndy lead back out to three, but once again with two outs in the bottom half of the inning the Panthers found life, and garnered three runs to send the game to its 11th frame.
Gavin Duran would drive in the game's eventual game winning run on a bases loaded sacrifice fly to give UIndy a 17-16 lead headed to the final half inning, where Drake Downing went 1-2-3 to seal this marathon of a game with a Greyhound win.
GAME 2 | UIndy 6, Davenport 16 (7 inn.)
In game two of the day, the Panthers bats stayed hot, scoring 13 of the game's 14 runs to jump out to a 13-1 lead after four innings. Humphrey scored in the Greyhounds' lone run of the first four innings on a wild pitch from Davenport's Easton Remick.
The Greyhounds were able to cut into the Panthers' lead with five runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings. Solen Munson, who entered the game as a pinch hitter, drove home the eighth home run of Friday for UIndy in the fifth, while also knocking in an RBI single in the seventh to trim Davenport's lead to 13-6.
Travis Liford's RBI double in the seventh inning invoked the final straw for the Greyhounds in game two, jumping out to a 10 run lead and ending the game early due to the run rule after seven frames.
UP NEXT
The Greyhounds and Panthers will meet once again tomorrow in a double header, with game one set for a 4 p.m. ET first pitch in what is expected to be an exciting ending to the four game series.
