The University of Illinois Springfield baseball team extended its home winning streak to 18 games and swept a four-game series over Southern Indiana on Sunday. The Prairie Stars won both ends of the day's doubleheader by scores of 9-1 and 6-2.
 
UIS's pitching was the story of the day as the Prairie Stars staff threw 16 innings, and allowed just 10 hits and two earned runs. The Prairie Stars struck out 30 batters, including 10 each by starters Quinn Gudaitis and Clarke Davenport.
 
UIS got its first four batters of game one on without a hit, and all four scored. That was more than enough for the Prairie Stars as they threw a three-hitter in the game and didn't allow a run until there were two outs in the last inning.
 
Gudaitis threw five innings and allowed just two hits and two walks. Ian Delleman struck out all three batters he faced in the sixth, and Cameron Zunkel got the final three outs.
 
Offensively, Asher Bradd and Zion Pettigrew both homered. Pettigrew had three hits, two runs, and two RBI, and Bradd had two hits, two runs, and two RBI. Kal Youngquist also drove in two, and Brandon Bannon scored three runs. Nick Mayerhofer had a pair of hits.
 
In the second game, UIS pitching was able to get out of trouble throughout the game, stranding 15 Screaming Eagles on base. Southern Indiana was just two-of-19 in the game with runners on base.
 
The score was tied at two until the bottom of the sixth when Austin Alderman had a big two-out single to put UIS ahead. The next inning, Bannon hit a three-run homer to put an exclamation point on the series.
 
Davenport struck out 10 in 4 1/3 innings. He allowed just four hits and walked two in his performance. Brendan Anderson, Tyler Horvath, and Luke Fitton got the final 14 outs, with Horvath earning the victory.
 
Pettigrew and Youngquist both homered in the first inning, as five of the team's six runs came from long balls. Bannon and Youngquist both had two hits, and Pettigrew scored twice.
 
UIS improves to 24-6 overall and 5-3 in GLVC play. The Prairie Stars have a non-conference game on Tuesday at Missouri-St. Louis.