NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A marathon day of baseball ended in triumphant fashion for Bellarmine University, as the Knights regrouped from a 7-2 loss against Lipscomb with a 19-17 victory in an Atlantic Sun Conference doubleheader Saturday at Ken Dugan Field.

GAME 1: Lipscomb 7, Bellarmine 2
Bellarmine (6-17, 2-4 ASUN) took a 2-0 lead in the fourth after an RBI double by junior Garrett Rusch and another run on a wild pitch, but Lipscomb (8-14, 3-3) tied it up with a two-run fifth before plating five in the seventh while clinching the series.

Rusch, freshman Landon Akers and junior Eli Watson had two hits apiece. Sophomore right-hander Zach Horwith tossed 4.0 shutout innings and senior right-hander Arren Hash had a scoreless frame.

GAME 2: Bellarmine 19, Lipscomb 17
In a wild contest, Bellarmine built an 18-8 lead after four innings and then held off Lipscomb's comeback bid to salvage a win in the series finale. The 19 runs were a season high.

Watson and senior Casey Sorg both collected three hits and four RBI. Akers and freshman Christian Kiper notched two hits and two RBI apiece while McKay Whitaker launched his first homer in a Knights uniform.

Bellarmine piled up three runs each in the first and third innings, and six runs apiece in the second and fourth innings as the lead climbed to 10. However, Lipscomb scored nine of the game's next 10 runs to make it a barnburner.

In the ninth, the Bisons had the tying run at the plate when senior right-hander Cooper Hellman sewed up the win with a game-ending strikeout. Hellman amassed five strikeouts in 3.1 innings, calming Lipscomb's frenetic rally down while being credited with the victory for his effective relief in the offense-dominated game.

Bellarmine took the lead for good in the second when Watson followed Sorg's game-tying, two-run single with a go-ahead, two-run double. Whitaker then smashed a three-run homer in the inning to push the advantage to 9-4.

Akers delivered an RBI double and Watson an RBI single in a three-run third, and Sorg had a two-run single and Kiper a two-run double in the six-run fourth. Junior Luke Scales had helped get things going in a three-run first with a two-run triple.

Bellarmine will play at 6 p.m. (ET) Tuesday at Indiana.

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