Baseball
Bears’ 7-1 win over Bellarmine clinches ASUN series, setting up sweep
UCA had 11 hits and stole five bases and got a dominant, complete-game performance from junior right hander Charlie Christensen
CONWAY, Ark. — Central Arkansas grabbed a 7-1 victory over the Bellarmine Knights on Saturday and won their ASUN series at Bear Stadium.
UCA had 11 hits and stole five bases and got a dominant, complete-game performance from junior right hander Charlie Christensen in winning its third consecutive game of it’s four-game home stand.
The Bears also improved to 4-1 against the Knights on the season, with the series finale set for 1 p.m. Sunday.
UCA (17-24, 10-10) scored single runs in the second and third innings, then put the game out of reach with five more in the fourth.
In the second, first baseman Jagger Schattle singled to left center and went to third on Blaine French’s base hit. Third baseman Jake Trabbie followed with an RBI double down the left-field line for a 1-0 lead.
The next inning, shortstop Nathan Negre walked, stole second and went to third on Zeb Allen’s infield single. Preston Curtis hit a sacrifice fly to center to put the Bears up 2-0.
In the fourth inning, UCA sent nine batters to the plate and totaled six hits. Trabbie started it with a one-out base hit, and Tanner Leonard added a bunt single.
Keon Moseni’s RBI single scored Trabbie before Negre had another bunt single, this one scoring Leonard. After a Bellarmine pitching change, Curtis tripled into the right-field corner, scoring two more.
Schattle added a double to the same corner, scoring Curtis for a 7-0 lead.
The Knights (10-33, 6-14) got their only run against Christensen in the fifth with a base hit and RBI double.
Christensen has pitched twice against the Knights this season, 18 total innings, and has allowed just 1 run and has struck out 11 and walked just two.
Negre, Schattle and Trabbie had two hits apiece, and Curtis knocked in three runs.
Information from UCA Sports is included in this story.
