OMAHA, Neb. -- Three Bruin pitchers combined for 27 strikeouts in 14 innings of work on Saturday afternoon to give the Bellevue University baseball team a pair of non-conference victories over Waldorf University and Presentation College at John Stella Field at Brown Park.
The Bruins (16-8) downed Waldorf (5-9) 5-1 in their first game of the day before going on to dispatch Presentation (4-17) by a count of 10-2 in the nightcap. Waldorf defeated Presentation 8-2 in the first game of the day.
Bruin pitching has now recorded five-straight games with at least 10 strikeouts. Four of BU's last five games have seen their starters record 10-or-more punch outs with the exception coming in Tuesday's staff day win over York in which four different pitchers saw the mound.
Game One: BU 5, Waldorf 1
Bellevue scored four third inning runs to provide more than enough support for right-hander Corey Jackson who turned in a dominant performance on the hill. Jackson (4-2) fired a complete game five-hitter in which he allowed just one run while striking out 13 against a pair of walks.
David Calderon-Tatis (0-3) took the loss for Waldorf after yielding four runs on six hits and striking out three over four innings of work.
With a 4-0 lead in the home half of the sixth, Alec Lee tacked onto the Bruins advantage with a solo home run. His third blast of the year, leading off the inning, provided a little insurance as Waldorf would scratch across a run in the seventh to avoid the shutout.
Lee, along with Conner Barnett, had two hits to lead the Bruins offense.
Game Two: BU 10, PC 2
Bellevue scored in every inning to back an exceptional start from Charlie Patterson (3-0) that saw the left-hander work six innings of five-hit ball in which he struck out 13 and allowed just one run.
Nine Bruins recorded a hit in the game with Zach Diehl leading the way with a 3-for-4 effort from the nine-hole. Payton Higgins and Josh Vaughan each delivered a pair of base knocks.
Bellevue opened the scoring with a pair of runs on an Alec Lee single in the first.
They tacked on two more in the second courtesy of a home run from Vaughan and a sac fly by Cody Banks.
Brenton Davis homered in the third ahead of Riley Baasch fourth inning RBI-single as BU pushed their lead to 6-0.
PC got a run back in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI-single from John Froese but four more Bellevue runs over the next three innings put the game out of reach.
Gavin Lim (1-3), the first of three PC pitchers, took the loss allowing four runs on five hits in two innings of work.
Up Next:
Bellevue wraps up the weekend tomorrow with a 2 p.m. first pitch against Waldorf.
