CRESTVIEW HILLS, Ky. – The No. 7 UIndy Softball team split an in-region doubleheader on Tuesday, bouncing back for a game-two win Thomas More.
 
Following a tough extra-inning affair in the opener, the Greyhounds exploded for double-digit runs for the fourth time in six games in a 13-3 victory. With the win, UIndy now holds a 6-1 series advantage against Thomas More.
 
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The Hounds stay on the road for a twin bill on Wednesday at Ohio Dominican. First pitch in Columbus is set for 2 p.m.
 
GAME 2 | UIndy 13, TMU 3 (6 innings)
UIndy opened the floodgates in the second inning, crossing the plate 10 times to give freshman southpaw Caitlin Bunte more than enough to work with on the rubber. It was Bunte herself that got the scoring started, doubling home Josie Jager with nobody out in the frame. Three straight singles stretched the lead to four when Cheynne Eads upped her single-season hit-by-pitch record to 23 – after setting the new school standard in game one.
 
Just as the offense began, it ended with an RBI double, this time from Sydney Oliver, driving in both Bunte and Jager.
 
It was all business inside the circle for Bunte, scattering just two hits in four innings of work. The rookie struck out six Saints, while inducing four groundouts, in only 55 pitches
 
The sophomore Oliver finished with four ribbies in the win, while Maya Rodriguez joined her teammate with a game-best three hits.
 
GAME 1 | TMU 3, UIndy 2 (8 innings)
The Hounds failed to capitalize in Tuesday's opener, leaving 10 on base in eight innings. Paige Vickey and Shelby Cook drove in the team's only runs, each on sacrifice flies that scored Brooklyn Willis and Jager, respectively. Rodriguez went 2-for-3 at the dish, with Christina Stankus and Willis each producing a two-bagger.
 
Eads was near perfect in the circle, striking out 13 in seven innings before the game went into extras. After Cook's sac fly in the top of the eighth, Eads quickly got two outs as the tying runner (placed on second to start the extra frame) loomed; back-to-back knocks cost Eads and the Greyhounds, as both runs that crossed the plate were unearned, to seal the Saints' upset.
 
Eads – this time as a batter – broke the single-season program HBP record in the fifth inning with her 22nd bean of the spring.