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Box Score 2 NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Belmont University baseball team split Friday's doubleheader with Northern Kentucky at Rose Park, winning the first game 5-4 and dropping the second game 11-10.
Junior Stone Selby picked up his second career win in game one and junior Kyle Brennan recorded his 16th career save. Sophomore John Behrends and freshman Mason Landers led the Bruins offensively in game two, each going three-for-four at the plate.
Game One
After three shutout innings, Northern Kentucky struck first by scoring four runs in the top of the fourth inning. Belmont chipped away at the deficit, starting with a solo home run from Carson Shacklett in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Following two one-out singles, junior Logan Jarvis collected an RBI double to cut the NKU lead 4-2. A single to right field from junior Jackson Campbell allowed Belmont to cut the deficit to one run, with freshman Drew Lowry delivering the tying and go-ahead runs with his first career triple.
Brennan forced a groundout, strikeout and a fly out in the top of the seventh inning to seal the save and the win. The Franklin, Tenn. native is now two wins away from moving into a tie with Will Tucker (2001-04) for fourth on the program's all-time career save list. Belmont won its first seven-inning game since a 14-4 victory over Murray State on April 30, 2017.
Game Two
With both teams scoring one run each after one inning, the Bruins opened the gap with a seven-run third-inning lead. The scoring spree marked the second time in the last three years where the Bruins have scored at least seven runs in an inning, with that last outing coming on March 2, 2019 against Bowling Green.
A Tommy Crider triple and a single from Jarvis drove in two runs to push Belmont out to a 3-1 lead, with Campbell hitting his first home run of the season and 19th career bomb to double the advantage. With Crider's triple, the 2021 team is the first team in the last 10 years of the program to record a triple in each of its first three games of the season.
Following an RBI single from Jack Capobianco, Behrends collected a double down the right field line to bring in two more runs. Shacklett scored two innings later off the double steal attempt to make it a 9-1 game after five innings.
NKU used a six-run top of the sixth inning to cut the deficit to two runs, but Landers hit his first collegiate home run to add an insurance run for Belmont. The Norse, however, answered with four runs in the top of the seventh inning to complete the comeback.
Belmont takes on Creighton in a doubleheader on Saturday starting at noon at Rose Park.
