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BELLEVUE, Neb. -- The top-seeded Bellevue University baseball team used the stellar pitching effort of junior Dustin Schorie and a four-run second inning to propel the Bruins to a 7-0 victory over Grand View University Monday afternoon in the NAIA National Championship Opening Round (Bellevue Bracket) being played at Don Roddy Field on the Bellevue East campus.
BU (46-8) will take on Oklahoma City University at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday in a winner's bracket matchup. The Vikings (34-13) will meet Doane at noon tomorrow in an elimination contest. OKCU defeated Doane, 5-2, earlier in the day.
The Bruins opened the second inning with three-straight singles and scored the game's first two runs with two-straight bases-loaded hit batsmen. Kanta Kobayashi's two-run double to left field increased the BU advantage to 4-0 later in the second.
Bellevue made it 5-0 in the bottom of the third on an RBI infield single by Anthony Lind that scored Takumi Maeno from second base.
The Bruins loaded the bases in the bottom of the eighth with three-straight two-out hit batsmen by GV pitcher Cade Armstrong. Logan Grant's two-run single to right field increased the BU margin to 7-0.
Schorie improved to 9-0 on the season, scattering seven hits with no walks and three strikeouts in nine complete innings on the mound, using 95 total pitches.
Kobayashi led the Bruins offensively, going 2-for-4 with two doubles and a pair of RBIs. Grant went 2-for-5 with a double and two RBIs.
Drew Conn (10-1) suffered his first loss of the season, giving up five runs on eight hits with no walks and three strikeouts in four innings of work.
The shutout marked BU's first shutout in the NAIA Opening Round since 2016 when the Bruins defeated Davenport University, 1-0.
