The Lipscomb baseball team lost the second game of the Battle of the Boulevard 13-3 Tuesday night at E.S. Rose Park in Nashville.
The Bruins scored eight runs in the first two innings, and Lipscomb did not get on the board until the third inning. Lipscomb head coach Jeff Forehand told athletics that the Bisons struggled to come back after the rough start.
“When you get down early in the game, it’s deflating for the whole team,” Forehead said. “We got off to a bad start and nobody is trying to figure it out any quicker than the players and the coaching staff.”
Redshirt sophomore infielder Adam Lee got an infield single in the third to start things. Junior infielder Mike Kote hit a triple to score Lee. Redshirt junior outfielder Josh Lee hit a sacrifice fly to score Korte.
Lipscomb would score one more run in the fifth off an RBI single from freshman infielder Hunter Hanks. Hanks went 2-for-4 at the plate. Adam Lee went 2-for-3.
Belmont’s junior infielder Matt Beaty earned six RBIs with a triple that plated two runs as well as a three run homerun. Junior Chase Cunningham got the win for the Bruins giving up two earned runs and two hits.
Redshirt freshman Dalton Curtis took the loss for the Bisons giving up five earned runs and three hits. Curtis’ record falls to 0-3.
The Bisons struggled scoring runners in scoring position leaving nine runners on base throughout the game.
“We got the two runs in the third and had the chance to have a really big inning there but we didn’t,” Forehand said. “We left them loaded in the fourth and two on in the fifth but that’s part of the letdown of that early energy that we didn’t have because they took it away from us.”
Lipscomb plays a three game series beginning Friday with Atlantic Sun conference foe Northern Kentucky at Ken Dugan Field. First pitch is 6 p.m. Friday.
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