NASHVILLE - David Mann collected three hits and scored two runs while Ryan Bear drove in three runs to guide UCF to a 10-4 victory over Belmont Saturday afternoon at Greer Stadium in Nashville, Tenn. UCF collected its nine runs on 13 hits en route to the win.
The victory snapped UCF’s season-long four-game losing streak and helped avoid a series sweep to the Bruins after Belmont won game one of the doubleheader Saturday, 1-0.
The win raised UCF’s record to 23-15, 8-7 in the A-Sun while Belmont fell to 17-13 and 13-8 in the conference.
UCF finally scored a run vs. Belmont’s pitching staff when Dee Brown drove in Mann with a RBI-groundout in the first inning.
The Golden Knights extended their lead to 2-0 in the second inning when Drew Butera lined a double down the left field line to score Clay Timpner. Butera tied a career-high with three hits for the game.
Belmont scored its first run of the game on a soft-liner through the right side off the bat of Stephen Sundstrom in the fourth inning to cut the deficit to 3-1.
The Golden Knights answered quickly with two runs in the fifth as Brown drove in his second run of the game with a sacrifice fly and Bear registered a RBI-single up the middle to give UCF a 5-1 lead.
With the two RBI on the day, Brown now has 11 career RBI vs. Belmont in just six games.
UCF blew the game open in the sixth with four runs on five hits to take a commanding 9-1 lead. Dave Lambert drilled a RBI-double in the inning while Bear crushed a two-run double off the top of the wall in center. Bear just missed his second home run of the series as he hit the top of a 15-foot wall in dead center, 400 feet from home plate.
Belmont managed to score three runs in the sixth while UCF tallied one run in the seventh to close out the scoring at 10-4.
The Golden Knights are back in action Tuesday, April 15 at home vs. South Florida at 7 p.m. The non-conference tilt beings a five-game homestand at Jay Bergman Field.
UCF Baseball Blasts Belmont 10-4
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