CONWAY, Ark. — Matt Higgins made history again and padded another newly set record that he owns, and the Bellarmine University baseball team piled up 20 hits in the opening game of a doubleheader split with Central Arkansas.

The Knights captured the opener 10-5 before UCA flipped the script in the tail end to secure a 10-5 win Saturday in ASUN action at Bear Stadium as the teams played a twin bill due to anticipated inclement weather on Sunday.

One day after becoming the program's all-time home run king, Higgins seized the top perch on the career RBI list. In the tail end, the senior left fielder swatted a two-run homer that vaulted him past Patrick Brady with 173 career RBIs. Higgins spiked his program-record career homer total to 38 after smashing his 15th long ball of the season.

Additionally, with three runs scored over the doubleheader, Higgins moved into fourth on the career runs scored list with 158. His most recent came on his 10th homer in the last 13 games.

The 20 hits in Saturday's opener marked the second time this season Bellarmine (8-31, 6-12 ASUN) has amassed at least 20, as the Knights set a Division-I era program record with 22 against North Alabama in the tail end of an April 9 doubleheader. All nine players tallied at least one hit, and seven delivered multi-hit games.

Bellarmine led off Saturday's opener with five straight hits against Central Arkansas (18-20, 12-6). Senior right fielder Jacob Mulcahy had the third of the bunch with a two-run single to start the scoring, and senior shortstop Clayton Mehlbauer added an RBI single for a 3-0 lead in the first.

The Knights would increase that advantage to 6-0 in the fifth after a two-run homer by junior third baseman Peyton Back, his fifth of the season. UCA would rally to within 6-4, but Mulcahy followed a sacrifice fly by senior second baseman Colin Bertsch by smashing a two-run homer in the eighth as Bellarmine pulled away.

Mulcahy's homer was his fourth of the season — he missed another by inches on a double off the wall — and came during an outing in which he went 4-for-6 with four RBIs. Mehlbauer and junior catcher Gabe Bratetic notched three hits apiece while Higgins, Bertsch, sophomore first baseman Davis Crane and senior designated hitter A.J. Arnold collected two each.

Junior righthander Nolan Pender pocketed his third win of the season, allowing four runs on six hits with two strikeouts in 6.0 innings pitched. Senior lefthander Nick Parrish secured his second save after allowing one run over the final 3.0 innings.

Central Arkansas largely commanded the tail end. Crane blasted a solo homer in the fifth for his third long ball of the season, and sophomore catcher Ashton Smith drove in a run to cut the deficit to 5-2, but the Bears countered with a four-run sixth.

Arnold registered two of Bellarmine's seven hits in the tail end.

Bellarmine will host Austin Peay at 3 p.m. (ET) Wednesday.

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