Box Score
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Belmont University baseball team dropped a Battle of the Boulevard contest to Lipscomb on Tuesday night, 3-2, at E.S. Rose Park.
The game finishes the season series with crosstown foe Lipscomb at 1-1. Belmont (31-17, 13-5 OVC) beat the Bisons, 5-1, on March 2 at Ken Dugan Field.
Belmont got a great start on the mound from freshman right-hander Jordan Zuger, who went a career-high six innings and picked up five strikeouts while only giving up one run. Zuger exited after six innings with Bruins in front 2-1, but ended up with a no-decision.
Will Jenkins (L, 2-1) took the loss in relief, while Kyle Brennan delivered two scoreless frames to keep Belmont within striking distance.
The Bruins were outhit 8-7 on the night, with three of their seven hits coming from junior second baseman Jack Capobianco, who finished 3-for-4 on the night. Tuesday marked the 13th one-run contest of the season for the Bruins, who are now 6-7 in such games.
Lipscomb jumped ahead in the opening frame with an RBI single to make it 1-0 in favor of the visitors, but the Bruins would tie the game up in the bottom of the second when Capobianco delivered a two-out single to left field that scored Brodey Heaton from second base.
Belmont would take their only lead in the ensuing third inning, when Heaton ripped a single into left field that allowed Guy Lipscomb to score from second base, after Lipscomb had singled and gotten to second on a passed ball.
The Bisons leaped in front for good on a two-RBI ground-rule double in the top of the seventh inning to make it 3-2. Jenkins had retired the first two Bison batters and had two strikes on a third before Lipscomb mounted a rally and plated the two runs with two outs.
Belmont appeared to be in position to tie or take the lead in the bottom of the seventh inning, when Capobianco picked up a leadoff single and advanced to second on a Grayson Taylor sacrifice bunt, putting a runner at second base with one out.
However, although Capobianco would get to third base on a wild pitch with two outs and John Behrends walked, Lipscomb struck out to retire the side.
Belmont would be unable to get another baserunner the rest of the night, falling by just a run to their crosstown rival.
Belmont will have a quick turnaround, hosting North Alabama on Wednesday night at 5 p.m. The status of the viability of Wednesday night's ESPN+ stream is uncertain, though live audio play-by-play will be broadcast on the Bruin Sports Network should there not be a video stream of the action.
