April 6, 2010
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Outside of
allowing six runs in the first inning, Belmont baseball kept pace
with 19th-ranked Vanderbilt in a 12-5 loss on Tuesday night at
Hawkins Field.
Junior Derek Hamblen gave
the Bruins an early 1-0 lead by extend his career-long hitting
streak to 17 games with a deep homerun to left field in the first
inning. Hamblen finished with 2-for-3, adding a double in the fifth
inning.
Vanderbilt sent 11 batters to
the plate in the first to claim the lead with six runs on seven
hits.
Prior to Tuesday evening,
Vanderbilt right-handed starter Drew Hayes (3-0) allowed just one
homerun in 21 2/3 innings inning pitched. Belmont eclipsed that
total in the second inning as junior Tim Egerton hit
Belmont's second homerun in as many innings in the leadoff
spot.
Belmont pitching started to
level off after Vanderbilt's six-run first inning, holding the
Commodores scoreless for four innings. Sophomore right-handed
starter Matt
Hamann (4-2) pitched two of those scoreless innings, but
allowed the six runs and struck out one in his first start of the
season.
The Bruin offense put up three
runs in the fourth inning to come within one run at 5-6. The inning
started with two straight singles from Egerton and Vinny Casha. Phillip Parsley
drove in Zeblo with an infield single, followed by Jared Breen's two-run
double to left field which capped off Belmont's three-run, four-hit
inning.
Garrett Fanchier
entered in the bottom of the fourth inning to retire the `Dores in
order, going on to hold the 19th-ranked team scoreless for a fourth
straight inning before allowing six runs with one strikeout through
five innings.
Starting for the second time
at shortstop this season, Breen went 2-for-3 with two RBI. Egerton,
who started for the second time a second base, went 2-for-3 with
one RBI.
Vanderbilt improves to 25-6 on
the season and 20-2 in non-conference games, as Belmont falls to
16-14.
Neither team recorded an error
- marking the first time this season that Belmont or its opponent
went error-less.
Belmont faces its
second-straight ranked opponent in a nightcap with No. 25 WKU
tomorrow in Bowling Green, Ky., beginning at 6 p.m.
