(rv) Belmont (8-1) vs. Lipscomb (3-3)
Ken Dugan Field | Nashville, Tenn.
Wednesday, March 2 | 3 p.m. CT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Winners of eight straight, the Belmont University baseball team will make their first road trip on Wednesday, when they make the short drive down Belmont Boulevard to face off against rival Lipscomb.
First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Ken Dugan Field.
The game will be livestreamed for free on the Lipscomb Athletics YouTube page, while Noah Syverson will have the audio play-by-play call on the Bruin Sports Network. Live stats will be available through BelmontBruins.com, and Twitter updates will be posted to @BelmontBaseball.
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Belmont enters on an eight-game winning streak, tied for the longest active streak in the country and the longest Bruin winning streak since Belmont won eight straight to close out the Covid-19-shortened 2020 season
- Belmont received four votes in the Feb. 28 USA Today baseball coaches poll, the most votes for the Bruins since June 30, 2011, after they beat Oklahoma State and Troy to advance to their first Regional Finals
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At 8-1, Belmont is off to their best start since 2010, when they began 10-0
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Belmont is t-1st in the country in shutouts (4) with No. 6 Stanford and No. 1 Texas
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Belmont has not committed a fielding error in the last eight games, and has the second-best fielding percentage in the country (.993)
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Bruin pitchers have been dominant to start the season, only allowing nine runs in the first nine games. Belmont is currently 2nd in the country in team ERA (1.12)
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Guy Lipscomb currently ranks 2nd in the country in stolen bases (11)
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Carson Shacklett hit two home runs in a single day against Youngstown State last weekend, blasting two balls over the right field fence in a doubleheader on Saturday. In 48 starts last year, Shacklett hit one home run.
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Joshua South won his seventh career OVC Pitcher of the Week honor after this past weekend, when he shutout Youngstown State over seven innings with just three weakly hit singles allowed, one walk, and nine strikeouts
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Belmont's projected starter on Wednesday is Jordan Zuger, who made his collegiate debut against Middle Tennessee last Wednesday and went three innings, giving up one run
- Mason Landers had the best game of his career against Lipscomb last season, when he hit two home runs and drove in a season-high four runs on April 6, becoming the first player since Nick Egli (3/31/2015) to hit two home runs in a Battle of the Boulevard game.
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Lipscomb head coach Jeff Forehand is a former Belmont second baseman who played under legendary Bruin coach Dave Whitten, and graduated in 1989
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Forehand picked up his 600th career victory earlier this season with a victory over Akron
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Lipscomb plays Middle Tennessee in Murfreesboro on Tuesday. The Bruins beat the Blue Raiders last Wednesday, 11-1, to clinch head coach Dave Jarvis' 1,000th career victory
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Lipscomb took two of three at home against Akron on Opening Weekend to start their 2022 season.
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After beating Bradley at home last Friday, they then lost back-to-back games against Pitt at Ken Dugan Field last weekend on Saturday and Sunday.
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Lipscomb was picked to finish 10th in the preseason A-SUN poll. Liberty, who recently entered the D1Baseball Top 25, was picked to win the conference for the third year in a row.
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Belmont has won 9 of the last 11 meetings
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In the NCAA era (1998 to present), Belmont leads the series 33-20
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The Bisons lead the all-time series 102-50
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Belmont has played Lipscomb more times than any other opponent
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Belmont and Lipscomb first met on April 24, 1954, with Lipscomb winning 4-1
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In 2021, the two programs split a 7-inning doubleheader at E.S. Rose Park, with Belmont winning the first game, 5-4, and Lipscomb taking the second game, 10-9
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Lipscomb will come to E.S. Rose Park on May 10 to finish the season series
