NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Dee Brown’s game-winning RBI in extra innings lifted UCF (11-4, 2-1 A-Sun) to a 5-2 victory over Lipscomb (2-7, 1-2 A-Sun) and the series victory Saturday afternoon at Dugan Field in Nashville. The Golden Knights scored three runs in the top of the eighth inning to secure the 5-2 win. Lipscomb won the first game of the doubleheader 4-3 in come-from-behind fashion after erasing a 3-0 deficit in the sixth inning.
The win for the Golden Knights was a special one as head coach Jay Bergman moved into sole possession of 24th place on the all-time wins list in NCAA history. Saturday's win was Bergman's 1,055th of his brilliant career, moving him past former Delaware head coach Bob Hannah.
Junior reliever Darren Newlin (1-0) was brilliant in relief in the game two victory for the Knights. Newlin pitched 4.1 innings of scoreless baseball to earn his first career victory. Newlin fanned five and yielded just two hits in the win.
In the second game, Lipscomb took the lead in the first inning with one run. Zack Miller singled in a run after two walks by UCF starter Taylor Meier to give the Bison a 1-0 lead. Lipscomb added an unearned run after Dave Lambert dropped the third out of the inning with the bases loaded to score Lipscomb’s second run of the inning.
A Lipscomb fielding error in the fifth led to UCF’s first run of the game. Kevin Richmond hit a ball to first base that was misplayed, allowing Marshall Bernhard to score on the play.
In the UCF seventh, Ryan Bono led off with a being hit by a pitch. After a sacrifice bunt by Drew Butera to advance pinch runner Jon Cooper to second, Bernhard advanced Cooper to third with a groundout to second. On a 0-2 count to Richmond, the junior laced a single up the middle to tie the game at 2-2.
In the UCF eighth, David Mann led off the frame with a walk and Clay Timpner followed with a single through the right side to put runners on first and second with no outs. With Dee Brown at the plate, Lipscomb starter Seth Kuwik uncorked a wild pitch to advance both runners to second and third base, respectively. Brown then followed with a sacrifice fly to center to give the Knights their first lead of the game, 3-2. Jon Cooper added a RBI-double to push the lead to 4-2.
After Cooper’s double, UCF looked to take a 5-2 lead as Butera hit a RBI-double down the right field line. After the run scored, the umpires met and overruled the call on the field and ruled Cooper back to second, saying it was a foul ball. On the very next pitch, Butera calmly drilled a RBI-double again, to score Cooper giving the Knights a 5-2 lead.
Baseball Earns 5-2 Extra-Inning Win At Lipscomb
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