Game 1 I Game 2

NEW PALESTINE, Ind. -- Senior Meaghan Raynes allowed one run over 6.1 innings, while junior Amanda Mackey drilled a three-run homerun, leading IUPUI to a 4-1 win over Southern Utah in the first game of the teams' doubleheader Saturday afternoon.  The Thunderbirds took the rubber game of the series, 9-0.

In game one, IUPUI (2-16, 1-8 Summit) held Southern Utah (12-25, 7-4 Summit) scoreless for six innings, stranding 9 Thunderbird runners in the process.  Raynes (1-4) allowed 6 hits, 1 run, 1 earned run, 3 walks and 4 strikeouts over 6.1 innings.  After Southern Utah scored their first run with a line drive off of Raynes, Amy Raker toed the rubber and retired the final two batters for her first collegiate save.

Raynes received all the runs she would need in the third inning, when Chelsie Hale led off the inning with a double to left field.  Stacy Harte followed Hale with a sharp single to left, leaving runners at first and third.  With Mia Ettl at the plate, a steal of second by Harte led to a throwing error on the Southern Utah catcher, allowing Hale to cross the dish with the game's first run.

After Ettl was hit by a pitch, Mackey crushed a pitch to left, easily clearing the 200-foot sign and giving the Jaguars a 4-0 lead.

Three of the Jaguars' four hits in the game came in the inning, but Raynes made the lead stand up, allowing just three hits in her final 3.1 innings of work.

In game two, Southern Utah right-hander Bubba Kearns shut down the Jaguar attack that had scored 11 runs in the series' first two games.  Kearns allowed 3 hits, while walking none in picking up her first win of the season.

 The Thunderbirds scored the only run they would need in the second inning, when Ali Daniels singles and scored on Caroline Fernandez' line drive down the left-field line.  Southern Utah tacked on another run in third to chase starter Jessica McGown (0-5) before Rodeo Carli lofted a homerun to left off IUPUI reliever Lea Corcoran in the fifth.

Down 4-0, IUPUI tried to mount a comeback in the sixth, putting a runner on before Jenna Crockett skyed a drive to center field, only to come up a foot shy of the fence.

Southern Utah put the game away in seventh inning, getting five runs off of two IUPUI errors.

The Jaguars will continue their homestand on Monday, April 7, when they will host Butler University.  The doubleheader is scheduled to begin a 4 p.m. and will be played at the IUPUI softball complex.