INDIANAPOLIS – In a matchup of the top two teams in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, the fourth-ranked UIndy softball team handed No. 16 McKendree a pair of losses Saturday at Baumgartner Field. The wins pushed the Greyhounds' GLVC record to an incredible 23-1, clinching the league's regular season championship with more than a week remaining on the schedule. By dowing the Bearcats 3-2 and 2-1, the Hounds netted their 10th GLVC regular season title since 2010 and fourth in the last six years.
 
GAME 1 | UIndy 3, McK 2
While McKendree ace Sami Huck carried a no-hitter into the late innings, the game remained scoreless until the Greyhounds finally broke through in the bottom of the fifth. With two outs, Peyton Cusack broke up the no-no with a hard-hit ball to third base. She came around on a Brooklyn Willis base hit, and later Cheyenne Eads piled on with an RBI single.
 
McKendree answered with a two-run homer from Jasmine Myers in the top of the sixth, but the Hounds took the lead for good in the bottom half of the inning on a double by Maya Rodriguez and a game-winning RBI single by Cusack.
 

Cusack ?? Clutch

The Hounds retake the lead on Peyton's single!!#ONEHOUND pic.twitter.com/A5dJ696bMO

— UIndy Softball (@UIndySoftball) April 25, 2026

 
Eads earned the win in the circle, moving to 24-2 on the year. She hung six zeros on the scoreboard, with Myers' sixth-inning home run representing the only damage. Eads finished with eight Ks and one walk in the complete-game performance.
 
Cusack amassed two hits, a run and an RBI to lead the offense out of the nine spot. Both Willis and Rodriguez had a hit and a run scored.
 
GAME 2 | UIndy 2, McK 1
UIndy earned another one-run win over the visiting Bearcats, this time in walk-off fashion. With the score knotted at 1-1 in the bottom of the seventh, a half a dozen Greyhounds combined to deliver the game winner. A walk (Paige Vickery), a successful sac bunt (Ella Palm), a pinch runner (Shelby Cook), and an infield single (Brooklyn) loaded the bases for Eads. As she had already done twice on the afternoon, Eads took one on the arm to force home Cook with the game-winning score.
 

Cheyenne Eads takes one for the team with a walk-off hit by pitch! ?? #ONEHOUND pic.twitter.com/RuKxF2vgR9

— UIndy Softball (@UIndySoftball) April 25, 2026

Eads was credited with both UIndy RBIs. Including her walk-off HBP, she settled for a sac fly in the fifth when her near-grand slam was robbed by McKendree center fielder Addy Case.
 
Game-two starter Cailtin Bunte held the potent McKendree offense in check most of the game, with one unearned run in the seventh accounting for the whole of Bearcat scoring. Bunte (24-1) scattered six hits while striking out six and walking two in the win.
 
Willis compiled three hits in game two, while Cusack made it a four-hit day by going 2-for-2 while adding a walk.