MELBOURNE, Fla. – The No. 11 UIndy softball team opened its annual Spring Break trip to Central Florida with two wins on Sunday. In the first of their six contests at the Space Coast Spring Games, the Greyhounds downed West Chester, 5-3, before handing Winona State a 2-1 defeat. It marked just the second all-time meeting with each school and the first time facing either in 23 years.
 
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UIndy picks right back up tomorrow with a matchup with Ferris State at 10 a.m. and a 2:30 meeting versus Gannon.
 
GAME 1 | UIndy 5, WCU 3
UIndy earned the comeback win thanks to a timely three-run rally in the bottom of the sixth. Trailing 3-2, the Hounds combined small ball with the long ball to surge ahead. Freshman Christina Stankus lit the fuse with a leadoff, pinch-hit double. Two bunts followed, including a successful squeeze play with Sydney Oliver scoring Stankus with the tying run. The lineup flipped and so did the score, as sophomore slugger Brooklyn Willis cleared the leftfield fence with a go-ahead two-run blast.
 
Starting pitcher Caitlin Bunte went six-plus innings to get the win and move to 7-1 on the season. Cheyenne Eads came on to retire the final three Golden Rams to earn her first save of the year.
 
Cara Cooper finished with a single, a double and a run scored; Shelby Cook had a two-run single in the first inning; and Josie Jager earned two walks.
 
GAME 2 | UIndy 2, WSU 1
All the game's scoring came in the first two innings, with the Greyhounds' two-run outburst in the top of the first proving sufficient. Sophomore Maya Rodriguez provided the decisive hit, as her two-out single plated Cara Cooper and Cheyenne Eads to put the Hounds ahead.
                                                                                  
The Warriors pushed across a single run in the bottom of the second, but that proved to lone tally of the afternoon against Eads, the UIndy ace. She scattered seven hits and four walks in the complete-game win, upping her record to a perfect 8-0.
 
At the plate, Eads chipped in a run and a walk, and Josie Jager had a pair of singles.