OMAHA, Neb. -- Contributions from all over the Bruin lineup saw the No. 5-ranked Bellevue University baseball team polish off a North Star Athletic Association sweep of Presentation College on Friday afternoon at Brown Park and run up a record 83 runs during the four-game series.
With wins in seven-straight, Bellevue improves to 34-6 overall and 19-1 in North Star play while Presentation remains winless, falling to 0-34 and 0-20 in conference play.
Game One: BU 27, PC 5
Kanta Kobayashi, Conner Barnett, Jake Lacey, Nick Grade, Tradd Richardson, and Drew Staley all posted three-hit games as a dozen Bruins logged at least one base hit in the game.
Lacey and Grade drove in five runs apiece and Cade Sakamoto came off the bench to blast a pair of two-run home runs.
Three Bruin pitchers combined on the victory with Kenji Miller (1-0) coming back from an injury suffered in the season earning his first BU win. Miller needed just 20 pitches to strike out four in two perfect innings of relief.
Bellevue scored five first innings runs and ran their lead to 7-3 before an 11-run outburst in the fourth effectively sealed the victory.
Game Two: BU 7, PC 1
Dustin Schorie (5-0) allowed an unearned run in the first inning but was otherwise brilliant. The right-hander struck out 10 Saints while scattering just four hits and issuing one free pass in seven innings of work.
Logan Grant put the Bruins on the board with an RBI-groundout in the top of the first which PC answered on Wolf'Don Thorson's sac fly to score Dawson Barson in the home half.
The game remained tied until the third where Jake Lacey chased Kanta Kobayashi home with a grounder and Nick grade singled home Conner Barnett.
Kobayashi squeezed home a run in the sixth and Lacey singled home a pair of insurance tallies later in the frame.
Drew Staley capped the scoring with a seventh innings single to plate Tradd Richardson as the Bruins did not go down in order in any of the 28 innings played in the series.
Peyton Rees (0-6) took the loss allowing six runs on 10 hits in five innings of relief work.
Up Next:
Bellevue ventures north up I-29 on Tuesday, Apr. 18 for a 5 p.m. non-conference tilt at Morningside University (27-10).
