INDIANAPOLIS – The No. 7 UIndy softball team highlighted an exciting Saturday at Baumgartner Field with a pair of walk-off wins against Missouri S&T, edging past the visiting Miners by scores of 4-3 and 2-1. The game-one victory netted the program its 11th 40-win season, all coming since 2012.
 
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The Greyhounds stay home for a twin bill versus Lincoln on Sunday. First pitch from Baumgartner Field is scheduled for noon ET.
 
GAME 1 | UIndy 4, S&T 3 (8 innings)
In a rematch of the 2024 GLVC Tournament championship, the Hounds took a 3-2 lead into the top of the seventh, but the Miners more than managed to stay alive with a two-out, two-run home run from sophomore Morgan Williams.
 
The Greyhounds were undeterred, however, forcing extras with a game-tying double from Brooklyn Willis in the seventh. Cheyenne Eads tossed a 1-2-3 eighth, setting the stage for some walk-off heroics in the bottom half. A single and two walks loaded the bases for Cara Cooper, who sent the ball back up the middle to plate Sydney Oliver with the game winner.
 
Eads pitched the entire game, striking out a half dozen and walking zero in the extra-inning affair. She notched her 20th win in the process, moving to 20-2 on the year.
 
Willis finished with two doubles and two walks, Eads was hit twice by a pitch—upping her DII-leading total to 25, and Emma Piercy got on base three times before scoring the tying run in the seventh.
 
GAME 2 | UIndy 2, S&T 1
The teams once again entered the bottom of the seventh locked in a stalemate. And as they've done all day (and all season), the Greyhounds found a way to win.
 
Despite mustering just one run and four hits in the first six frames, UIndy put the pressure on right away with an HBP from Shelby Cook and a perfect bunt single by Peyton Cusack. Oliver's sacrifice moved both runners up and a Miners error loaded them up once again for Cooper. The All-LVC First Teamer worked the count full and ultimately took ball four to author her second walk-off AB of the day.
 
Like Eads did in game one, freshman pitcher Caitlin Bunte spun a six-K, zero-walk complete game. She allowed just on run and is now a stellar 20-1 on the year.
 
Cook's RBI double in the fourth accounted for the only other Greyhound run.