Box Score
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Belmont University baseball team earned their first road sweep over a Power Five opponent in program history on Sunday, edging out Purdue, 8-6, at Alexander Field in West Lafayette, Ind.
Belmont (26-14, 9-3 OVC) led 8-2 at the seventh inning stretch and withstood a furious Purdue rally at the end to hold on for their third win in a row over the Boilermakers. Purdue had the tying run on first base with two outs in the ninth, but Kyle Brennan (SV, 13) got a game-ending groundout to secure the victory.
With the win, the Bruins swept a Power Five opponent for the first time since 2000, when they took down Iowa in three straight games at home in Nashville.
One day after picking up four hits in Belmont's 11-1 win on Saturday, Guy Lipscomb went 3-for-5 with two RBIs to lead the offense. Logan Jarvis chipped in a 2-for-4 outing with a home run and two RBIs, and Jack Capobianco collected his second three-hit game of the season, going 3-for-4 with a couple of bunt singles and a double.
The Bruins combined for 31 hits in the final two games of the series, and outscored Purdue 22-9 over the weekend.
Jalen Borders (W, 4-2) continued the theme of strong starting pitching, as he went four innings and allowed just two earned runs. Combined, Andy Bean, Joshua South, and Borders went 18 innings and allowed just five runs on the weekend.
Dominic Baratta pitched well in relief, going 2 2/3 innings with just one run allowed and three strikeouts.
Belmont jumped ahead in the first inning when Carson Shacklett drew a leadoff walk and John Behrends doubled to put men at second and third base with nobody out. Lipscomb then sent a grounder to the right side to give the Bruins a 1-0 lead.
Purdue tied it up 1-1 in the second inning, but the Bruins regained the advantage in the third frame by getting a two-out grounrule double from Mason Landers that drove in Lipscomb, who had stolen second base after singling to leadoff the frame.
Lipscomb's stolen base was his 30th of the season, tying the single-season program record for steals (Matt Reynolds, 2005).
After Landers' RBI double, Jarvis stepped in and smashed his second home run of the season over the right-field wall, a two-run shot that gave Belmont a 4-1 lead.
The Bruins then got two RBI singles in the fourth inning from Lipscomb and Heaton to stretch the lead to 6-1, and tacked on two more in the fifth on an RBI single from Shacklett and a sacrifice fly from Behrends, making it 8-2 midway through the fifth inning.
Purdue rallied with one run in the seventh, two in the eighth, and one in the ninth, but Brennan held on to record the save.
The Boilermakers left 17 men on base, with Borders, Baratta, Will Jenkins, and Brennan able to pitch well with runners on the basepaths behind them.
Belmont finishes out their nine-game road stretch with a midweek contest at Evansville on Tuesday. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.
Belmont took down Evansville, 7-4, at E.S. Rose Park earlier this season behind two home runs from Tommy Crider.
