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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Belmont University baseball team won their ninth game in a row on Wednesday night, taking down Lipscomb, 5-1, at Ken Dugan Field.
The nine-game win streak is the longest for the Bruins since the 2015 season, when a Matt Beaty-led team won nine in a row from March 8 to March 22.
At 9-1, Belmont is off to their best start since the 2010 season, when they won their first ten games.
The Bruins have now won ten of the last 12 Battle of the Boulevard matchups with their crosstown rival.
Brodey Heaton got the visitors on the board in the first inning with a mammoth solo home run that cleared the treeline in left-center field. The homer was Heaton's first of the season.
With runners on second and third, Guy Lipscomb then shot a ball to the right side of the infield for an RBI groundout, bringing Belmont's lead to 3-0.
In the top of the third frame, Logan Jarvis scored another Bruin run when he drew a leadoff walk, stole second base, and advanced to third on a wild pitch before coming home on a Taylor double to left field.
Belmont rounded up their scoring with a laser of a home run from Taylor that cleared the left field wall with two outs in the sixth inning, Taylor's first home run since 2019.
Taylor finished his night 2-for-2 with a home run, a double, 2 RBIs, and two walks.
Lipscomb threatened in the ninth inning, loading the bases with one out, but Brennan was able to limit the damage to just one run, on a balk that broke up the shutout, before getting a strikeout to end the game.
With the collective performance on the mound and more solid defense on Wednesday, Belmont has now given up just seven runs in the last nine games.
The Bruins broke their streak of eight straight games without a fielding error, but tremendous glove-work was highlighted by the nabbing of three Bison runners on perfect throws from Campbell, and a few sharply hit grounders that were vacuumed up by Jarvis at third base.
Through nine games, Belmont has a team ERA of 1.00, good for 3rd in NCAA Division I.
Thanks to the home runs from Heaton and Taylor, Belmont had multiple blasts in a game for the first time this season.
Belmont returns home to host Dayton in a three-game series beginning on Friday. First pitch from E.S. Rose Park is scheduled for 4 p.m.
