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Bellarmine University Athletics

Colin Bertsch
Michael Martinez
7
Bellarmine BELL 5-9
9
Winner Indiana IND 8-6
Bellarmine BELL
5-9
7
Final
9
Indiana IND
8-6
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Bellarmine BELL 3 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 10 2
Indiana IND 2 0 1 2 3 0 0 1 X 9 10 1

W: Decker-Petty, Aydan (1-0) L: Johnson, Ryan (0-1) S: Kraft, Ryan (4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball can't make early barrage of doubles, runs hold up as IU rallies again

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The Bellarmine University baseball team's offense cooled off after an early spree of doubles and runs as the Knights fell 9-7 to Indiana on Friday at Bart Kaufman Field.

Bellarmine (5-9) has dropped the first two games of the series despite holding at least a three-run advantage in both contests against Indiana (8-6). The Knights went up 7-2 in the third before the Hoosiers answered with one run in the bottom half and five more over the next two innings to seize the lead.

Bellarmine did plenty of damage over the first three innings — plating seven runs after ripping six doubles and amassing eight total hits — but the Knights' bats largely went silent after that. BU had only two hits over the final six innings, as both teams finished with 10.

Six different Knights accounted for Bellarmine's six doubles over the first three frames. Senior left fielder Tommy Dilz, senior second baseman Peyton Back, freshman shortstop Luke Scales, senior designated hitter Dylan Byerly, senior third baseman Colin Bertsch and senior center fielder Will Aubel all smacked a two-bagger.

Consecutive two-out RBI doubles by Scales and Byerly in the first helped stake Bellarmine to a 3-0 lead. A two-bagger by Dilz in the second set up a sacrifice fly by freshman first baseman Brady Morse. Bertsch then had a two-run double in the third, and Aubel followed immediately with an RBI double to push the Knights' advantage to 7-2.

Indiana pushed one across in the third, two in the fourth and three in the fifth, the latter vaulting the Hoosiers into the lead at 8-7. IU added an insurance run in the eighth. The Hoosiers' MVP was perhaps Craig Yoho, who struck out five while facing the minimum over 3.0 scoreless innings of relief.

Bertsch and sophomore right fielder/pitcher Casey Sorg registered two hits apiece for Bellarmine, which will meet Indiana in the third of the four-game series at 2 p.m. (ET) Saturday.

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