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Eddie Mathis
Adam Pruiett
Eddie Mathis (center) pitched 8.0 strong innings against Drury in the NCAA Midwest Regional.
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Bellarmine BU 34-20
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Winner Drury University DU 37-18
Bellarmine BU
34-20
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Final
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Drury University DU
37-18
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Bellarmine BU 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 9 1
Drury University DU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 6 1

W: Austin, A. (5-2) L: Mathis, Eddie (9-4)

Game Recap: Baseball | | by Adam Pruiett, Assistant SID

Drury deals Knights another gut-wrenching postseason loss, 3-2, in NCAA Regional

MIDLAND, Mich. — Drury has specialized this postseason in delivering heartbreaking losses to the Bellarmine University baseball team.

After scoring twice in the ninth to knock off the Knights 7-6 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament, the fourth-seeded Panthers once again rallied with two runs in the last inning to defeat fifth-seeded Bellarmine 3-2 on Thursday in the opening round of the Midwest Regional of the DII NCAA Tournament at Northwood's Gerace Stadium.

Bellarmine (34-20) will meet eighth-seeded Kentucky Wesleyan at 10 a.m. Friday. KWC fell 10-2 to top-seeded Northwood.

Eddie Mathis was brilliant in limiting Drury (37-18) to only two hits over the first 7.0 innings, and the sophomore left-hander may have had a perfect eighth if not for a bad-hop single to third. Instead, with two outs and that runner on base, Devan O'Bryan smacked an RBI double that cut Bellarmine's lead to 2-1.

Drury tied it at 2-2 when Nic Perkins led off the ninth with a solo homer to left field, and KK Daniel followed with a double to the same area. Senior right-hander Will Birch entered for Mathis and faced Ryan Kayhill, who laid down a sacrifice bunt. The throw to first was errant, allowing pinch runner Patrick Hoerning to race home with the winning run.

Mathis (9-4) took the hard-to-swallow loss after allowing two earned runs on six hits in 8.0 innings pitched with six strikeouts against one walk. Drury reliever Alex Austin (5-2) earned the win with 2.2 scoreless innings of relief.

Bellarmine amassed all nine of its hits before the eighth inning, but the Knights left 11 runners on base. Bellarmine scored both its runs in the seventh off GLVC Player of the Year Ryan Colombo after junior shortstop Drew Greenwood doubled, sophomore right fielder Alex Phillips singled and sophomore designated hitter Zac Wiley plated them both with a laser into the left-center gap.

Greenwood, Wiley and junior second baseman Alex Ralph had two hits apiece for Bellarmine.

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