LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Bellarmine University baseball team will conclude the regular season in this week of play with a road contest Tuesday at Eastern Kentucky followed by a three-game home series against Youngstown State.

The four contests are all nonconference games. Bellarmine (13-30) will face EKU (16-29) in Richmond, Kentucky, at 6 p.m. (ET) Tuesday. The Knights will then host Youngstown State (26-21) in what is their standard home schedule for a three-game weekend series, with the Friday and Saturday contests starting at 2 p.m. and Sunday's first pitch slated for 1 p.m.

Eastern Kentucky and Bellarmine will soon be colleagues in the ASUN. The Knights debuted in the conference this school year after entering Division I, while EKU announced in late January that all 16 of its athletic teams were joining the ASUN on July 1.

Eastern Kentucky follows its contest against Bellarmine with its last regular-season series in the Ohio Valley Conference, as the Colonels will welcome Belmont for a three-game set. EKU is coming off an OVC series at Southeast Missouri, winning the middle game 8-0 but falling 6-2 and 7-6 in the bookend contests. The Colonels boast a notable 6-3 home win over then-No. 7 Louisville.

Caleb Upshaw leads Eastern Kentucky in home runs (nine) and RBIs (44) while hitting .308, which is just behind the team-best .310 of Daniel Harris IV, who has six homers and 34 RBIs. Charles Ludwick has smacked seven homers.

Youngstown State is a member of the Horizon League. The Penguins won three of four last weekend in a league series against Purdue Fort Wayne to move to 21-15 in conference play. They've had six- and five-game win streaks this season.

Youngstown State has been strong offensively, carrying a .291 team batting average while averaging about a homer per game. Five regulars are hitting .305 or higher, led by Dominick Bucko at .331. Bucko is also the RBI leader with 39. Jeff Wehler is pacing the team with eight homers, but two more players have seven and another has six.

In the Purdue Fort Wayne series, Collin Floyd (7-3, 2.16 ERA, 91 strikeouts in 83.1 innings), Colin Clark (5-5, 7.16, 66 in 60.1) and Jon Snyder (4-2, 3.08, 79 in 61.1) were the team's starting pitchers in the first three games. Gary Clift Jr. has tallied seven saves.

Bellarmine lost two of three last weekend in an ASUN home series against Lipscomb, and the Knights could be forgiven for thinking they should have swept the Bisons — or, at the very least, won the series. Bellarmine dropped the first two games 5-3 and 9-8 after holding leads through the sixth and eighth innings, respectively, in the contests. In the latter, it seemed as if the baseball gods ganged up against the Knights, as whacky plays abounded in Lipscomb's comeback win.

Bellarmine did deliver a resilient effort in the series finale, regrouping for a 10-4 victory. Senior outfielder/designated hitter Chris Gambert launched a pair of homers, including a grand slam, while becoming the program's career home-run leader. Freshman right-hander Nolan Pender did not allow an earned run over 7.0 innings in the finale, capping a series in which senior right-handers Deylen Miley and Jacob Nagel also delivered solid starts.

Gambert had three total home runs in the series to bump his team lead to 10. He's also the RBI leader with 31. Junior outfielder Matt Higgins tops Bellarmine with a .356 batting average and has seven homers and 29 RBIs. Senior third baseman Josh Finerty is hitting .300 with a team-high 18 extra-base hits.

Freshman first baseman Davis Crane has become a regular in the starting lineup and is hitting .301 with two of his four homers coming in the most recent Lipscomb series. Junior shortstop Clayton Mehlbauer went 4-for-4 in the finale against the Bisons and is batting .288 with six home runs. Junior utility Jacob Mulcahy went 9-for-16 last week, posting four straight multi-hit games.

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