Baseball Begins Final Non-Conference Series On Friday Against Lindenwood

Belmont (7-11) vs. Lindenwood (3-14) 

Friday, March 17 | 4pm 

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Saturday, March 18 | 1pm 

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Saturday, March 18 | 3:30pm (approx.) 

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Sunday, March 19 | 1pm 

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E.S. Rose Park | Nashville, Tennessee 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Belmont University baseball team begins their final week of non-conference action with a four-game series against Lindenwood this weekend at E.S. Rose Park. 

Friday's opener is scheduled for 4 p.m., Saturday will feature a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m., and first pitch in Sunday's finale will come at 1 p.m. 

Live radio play-by-play of all four games will be broadcast on iHeartRadio or the Bruin Sports Network, and live stats will be available on BelmontBruins.com. 

Admission to all games at E.S. Rose Park is free. 

What's Bruin 

• Belmont is coming off a 15-6 loss to No. 6 Vanderbilt at First Horizon Park on Tuesday night 

• The Bruins tallied 12 hits, tied for the most given up by Vanderbilt in a game this season 

• Junior shortstop Sam Kirkpatrick finished 3-for-5 on Tuesday, collecting his eighth multi-hit game and fourth three-hit game of the season 

• Kirkpatrick, a native of Franklin, Tenn., currently leads the Missouri Valley Conference in hits (27) and is 43rd nationally 

• Junior second baseman Jack Rando hit a missile off the left field foul pole at First Horizon Park on Tuesday, his second home run of the season and the third of his career 

• Junior left-hander Andy Bean is the projected Friday starter on the mound 

• Bean, a native of Fisherville, Tenn., is currently eighth all-time in program history in career winning percentage (.714)  

• With 179 career strikeouts, Bean needs seven more to pass Austin Coley (2012-14) to move into the top ten in the program's NCAA Division I-era 

• Redshirt freshman two-way player Ethan Harden has been a versatile weapon for Belmont, and has recorded a save, a win, and a start on the mound, has started games in center field and in right field, and hit his first career home run two weekends ago 

• Among qualified pitchers, Harden leads the team with a 0.93 ERA 

• Two weekends ago, Belmont collected one of their most memorable home series wins in program history, taking two out of three from Kansas for their first home series win over a Power Five opponent since 2001 

• Junior left-hander Dominic Baratta is the projected Sunday starter on the mound 

• Belmont is 4-0 on Sunday games at home this year 

• Baratta, a native of Dunedin, Fla., is coming off his best career performance, going six innings while allowing just one run while recording 11 strikeouts to just two walks in a 4-3 win over Western Illinois last Sunday 

• Belmont is third in the MVC in strikeouts (152) 

• Over the last three seasons, Belmont has gone 46-23 at home (.667) 

About the Lions 

• Lindenwood is in their first season as members of the Ohio Valley Conference and as participants in NCAA Division I 

• From 2013-2022, Lindenwood competed in NCAA Division II 

• Lindenwood has had trouble offensively through the first month of the season, hitting .191 as a team with a .255 slugging percentage 

• Lindenwood was picked to finish ninth out of nine teams in the OVC Preseason Poll 

• Belmont will face Southern Indiana on Tuesday, March 21, at E.S. Rose Park, another new OVC team 

Series History 

• This weekend marks the first-ever meetings between Belmont and Lindenwood 

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