LAKE WALES, Fla. -- The 10th-ranked Bellevue University baseball team defeated Lawrence Tech University 10-5 and Concordia University 3-0 on Friday to finish pool play with a 3-1 record at the Warner Invitational.
Bellevue ups their record to 13-6 while LTU falls to 4-10 on the season and Concordia drops to 10-6-1.
Game One: BU 10, LTU 5
All nine Bruin starters recorded a base hit, led by Brenton Davis' three-hit game, as Bellevue took down Lawrence Tech 10-5 in Friday's first game.
Kanta Kobayashi, Conner Barnett, Alec Ackerman, and Zach Diehl all had multi-hit games and Alex Stufft hit his third home run of the year.
Lawrence Tech jumped out to an early lead with runs in each of the first two innings.
Bellevue answered with a run in the second on an RBI-single by Diehl and the two teams traded runs in the third as LTU took a 3-2 lead into the fourth.
The Bruins put up six in the fourth, highlighted by Stufft's two-run homer to left center.
The Blue Devils answered with two runs in the fifth to cut the deficit to 8-5.
BU picked up insurance runs in the fifth and sixth innings to put the game away.
Charlie Patterson (4-0) earned the win, going four innings and allowing five runs on seven hits. Zane Layden and Stufft (Save, 1), who struck out three in 1.2 innings in his BU mound debut, combined on three scoreless innings of relief to preserve the win.
Ben Schmidt (0-3) took the loss for LTU. He allowed eight runs on 13 hits in 3.2 innings of work.
Game Two: BU 3, CUNE 0
Elijah Johnson (4-1) was virtually unhittable as he struck out 13 batters in firing a two-hit shutout as Bellevue defeated Concordia, 3-0.
BU struck first, manufacturing a run in the top of the first. Kanta Kobayashi led off with a walk, stole second and took third on a wild pitch before coming home on a ground ball double play.
Johnson worked around a walk and a single in the first and allowed his lone other hit with two outs in the fourth before getting a strikeout to end the frame with runners on the corners.
The Bruins added some insurance in the seventh with Josh Vaughan scoring on a wild pitch and Zach Diehl scoring on a fly ball and throwing error during Nathan Sprenger's at-bat.
Johnson retired the final 10 batters he faced, including punching out six.
Cale Mathison (0-1) took the loss for CUNE, allowing a run on three hits in 4.2 innings. He struck out six and walked four before giving way to Jacob Lycan out of the pen.
Up Next:
Bellevue will take on #11 St. Thomas University tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. (CST) with the winner playing again immediately after against #25 Warner University in the Championship Game.
