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Box Score 2 NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Belmont University baseball team split Saturday's doubleheader against Creighton at Rose Park, winning the first game 3-2 and dropping the second game 9-3.
Junior Logan Jarvis recorded a season-high three hits in game one to go with two RBIs, collecting his first career triple in the process. Sophomore Joshua South picked up his first win of the season, pitching five innings and recording five strikeouts without giving up an earned run. Freshman Andy Bean collected his first career save in the game one win.
Game One
Creighton looked to jump to an early lead in the top of the third inning with runners on second and third base with one out, but South collected a strikeout and forced a groundout to retire the side and keep things scoreless. A single from Jack Rando and two drawn walks loaded the bases for Belmont a half-inning later before Jarvis drove in the game's first two runs with a single to right field.
Junior Jackson Campbell followed up with a single to first base to score Crider from second base, giving the Bruins a 3-0 lead. Creighton cut the deficit in the top of the fifth inning by capitalizing off a Belmont throwing error after a strikeout to make it a two-run game. Jarvis answered back with his first career triple with two outs in the next-half inning, but Belmont was forced into a strikeout the following at-bat.
Belmont, who did not record a triple during the 2020 season, had a triple in each of its first four games in 2021. It is the first time since the 2015 season where at least three different players record a triple in the first four games of a Belmont season.
Following a Creighton double and a single to advance runners at the corners, the Bluejays collected a sacrifice fly to cut the deficit to one run in the top of the sixth inning. Bean struck out three of the final five batters he faced, sealing the win for Belmont and giving him his first career save.
Game Two
Sophomore John Behrends got the bottom of the first inning for the Bruins with a one-out double and later scored off an RBI double from Tommy Crider to give the game's first run to Belmont. A single up the middle by Jarvis scored Crider from second base, giving Belmont a 2-0 lead.
Freshman Drew Lowry hit his first collegiate home run in the bottom of the second inning, giving Belmont a three-run cushion. Creighton quickly got two runners on-base in the next half-inning and later scored off a two-RBI triple, with a Belmont fielding error allowing the tying run to score.
Loading the bases in the top of the sixth inning, Creighton opened the gap by drawing three bases-loaded walks to take a 6-3 lead. A Belmont fielding error in the outfield allowed three more runs to score to give the Bluejays a 9-3 lead. The Bruins were forced out in six of its final seven batters to end the second, seven-inning game.
Belmont (3-2) hits the road for the first time in the 2021 season, facing Ole Miss on Friday at 6:30 p.m. in Oxford, Miss. Ole Miss is currently ranked No. 1 in the country.
