NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Belmont baseball team has now won seven straight Atlantic Sun Conference games and is coming off of its second straight A-Sun sweep, taking three from Campbell last weekend. The Bruins now take a quick trip down the road to play at Lipscomb in the annual Battle of the Boulevard. The two teams will square off in a three game series, the first of which will be held at 6:00 p.m. tonight.
Lipscomb welcomes Belmont to Dugan Field with an overall record of 14-27. The Bisons are in secondto last in the Atlantic Sun Conference standings with a league mark of 5-13. LU has lost its last four games, which included a road loss at Austin Peay and a sweep by Mercer last weekend. Three starters lead the Bisons with averages over .300 on the year. M.L. Williams is hitting an outstanding .370 with a teamleading 15 doubles, while Richie Goodenow is batting .366 with nine doubles and four home runs. Josh Chism, who leads the squad with 30 runs batted in, is hitting .342 at the plate. Connor Sinclair is the projected game one starter, and holds a 2-5 record with an ERA of 2.49 and 61 strikeouts in 61.1 innings pitched. Blake Fonfara, who should start game two against the Bruins, holds a 4.46 ERA with 35 strikeouts in 14 appearances.
During Belmont's NCAA era, the Bruins hold a slight 19-15 advantage over Lipscomb in the series. In the first NCAA game between the two teams, BU topped the Bisons by a score of 4-3 on April 7, 1998 at Lipscomb. Last year Belmont took two of three games from LU, winning by scores of 8-3 and 12-10 after falling 12-3 in the first game of the home series.
Recently, the Bruins opened up the brand new E.S. Rose Park on Tuesday, April 26. BU fell to Austin Peay 7-5 as sophomore Judah Akers (Cookeville, Tenn.) hit the first Belmont home run at the new park. The Grand Opening of E.S. Rose Park will take place on Tuesday, May 3 as Belmont hosts Murray State in a non-conference doubleheader at 4 p.m. The offical cermonies are scheduled to take place between games one and two of the doubleheader.
During Belmont's recent hot streak, the back end of the lineup has been on fire. Over the past 10 games sophomore Jared Breen (Marietta, Ga.), freshman Greg Brody (Dacula, Ga.), junior Zac Mitchell (Cordova, Tenn.), and senior Tim Egerton (Smyrna, Tenn.) are first through fourth in batting average for the Bruins.
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