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INDIANAPOLIS -- Notre Dame was swept in a doubleheader by the No. 11 Indianapolis Greyhounds on Wednesday.

The Falcons (0-6) fell, 15-3, in the opener and 6-3 in the nightcap. Seven UI pitchers combined to allow six runs over 14 innings of baseball.

Indianapolis (2-0) came into the season ranked No. 11 by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. Last season, the Greyhounds went 46-16 (.742) en route to winning Great Lakes Valley Conference and NCAA-II Midwest Region titles. UI owns a .665 winning percentage (155-78) since 2009, and over the same stretch the Greyhounds are an impressive 76-21 (.784) at home. Wednesday marked UI's 2013 home opener, and the Greyhounds raced out to an early lead on their home track.

Game One
Notre Dame fell behind, 3-0, in the first inning, and then the Greyhounds exploded for 10 runs on seven hits in the second. Indianapolis got to starter Bryan Pyper for 10 of the 13 runs it scored in the first two frames. Pyper was lifted after an inning-and-two-thirds. He suffered control problems in that second stanza, hitting three consecutive batters after allowing a double and a single. The Greyhounds scored nine of those 10 second-inning runs with two outs.

Indianapolis added two more runs in the bottom of the fourth to up its lead to 15-0. A two-out RBI double by Jared Clovis put NDC on the board in the fifth. That two-bagger marked the first hit of the game allowed by Greyhound starter Josh Witt, who left after the fifth. Witt allowed just the one hit and one run. He walked two and struck out two.

The Falcons managed solo runs in the sixth and the seventh in the eventual 15-3 run-rule loss.

One bright spot for NDC in the game was a four-inning relief stint turned in by senior right-hander Tyler DeCrapio (two hits, two runs, four strikeouts).  

For the game, the Greyhounds outhit the Falcons, 11-4. Notre Dame committed four errors in the loss.

Game Two
Freshman left-hander Tanner Scott started game two, and he was lifted with two outs in the second inning after walking four.  Scott allowed one run in the first and two in the second. Right-hander Matt Kastelic came on for Scott, and he allowed two runs (one earned) in the third.

On the other side of the scorecard, Notre Dame's offense was unable to get anything going against UI's Hugo Lalonde. The Falcons were held scoreless over Lalonde's five frames. He fanned seven NDC batters before handing over a 5-0 lead to reliever Sean Elliot.

Kastelic kept the Greyhounds at bay, pitching scoreless innings in the fourth, fifth and sixth, and that set up the Falcons' getting back in the game in the top of the seventh.

In that inning Jesse Carriere knocked in a run with a double and came into score on a Jarlys Mejia single. Jon Koepf and Eric Mathews also singled in the inning, as the Falcons hung a three on the Greyhound Park scoreboard.

The Greyhounds bounced back in the home half of the seventh, with senior third baseman Tyler O'Daniel homering on a 2-0 pitch as the first UI batter in that inning. That sent the Greyhounds into the eighth with a 6-3 lead.

Reliever Phil Wheeler set down the Falcons, one-two-three, in the eighth, and Aaron Gregory pitched a scoreless ninth to preserve the win.

Senior third baseman Jon Koepf had hits in both games and went a combined 4-for-6 on wednesday. He has collected at last one base hit in each of four games played this season.

Junior first baseman Kevin Bernay also had a hit in both of Wednesday's games in Indianapolis; he went 2-for-4. After sitting out in the first game, Eric Mathews went 3-for-4 in game two.

The NDC offense was hamstrung by its performance leading off innings. In 16 frames, the Falcons got  just two lead-off men aboard.