CARBONDALE, Ill. — The Bellarmine University baseball team scored four runs in the seventh inning in rallying to defeat Northern Illinois 7-4 in a nonconference, neutral-site game Friday at Southern Illinois' Itchy Jones Stadium.

Bellarmine (10-17) got strong collective pitching. Senior right-hander Deylen Miley delivered a quality start after allowing three runs on nine hits with six strikeouts in 6.0 innings. Freshman right-hander Devin Ecklar (2-1) earned the win after yielding one run on two hits in 2.0 frames. Senior right-hander Anthony Ethington secured his third save after setting NIU (5-19) down in order in the ninth.

After a slow start, Bellarmine's offense ended up producing 11 hits. Freshman first baseman Davis Crane collected three of them, senior third baseman Josh Finerty doubled and tripled, and junior right fielder Jacob Mulcahy cranked his fourth homer of the season among his pair of hits.

Bellarmine trailed 3-0 before scoring one run apiece in the fifth and sixth innings on an RBI double by senior left fielder Chris Gambert and an RBI ground out by junior pinch hitter Matt Higgins.

Bellarmine overtook Northern Illinois with a four-run seventh. Crane had a two-run double in the inning and senior catcher Alex Cleverly added an RBI single.

All four of NIU's runs came via solo homers, the last of which came in the eighth to cut the deficit to 6-4, but Mulcahy capped the scoring by smashing his own solo shot in the bottom half.

Bellarmine was scheduled to play host Southern Illinois after this game, but the contest was canceled due to lightning. The Knights will meet SIU at 7 p.m. (ET) Saturday.

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