WEDNESDAY'S SCORES
@Bellarmine 10,
Southern Indiana 8
Southeast Missouri 8, @Saint Louis 1
@Little Rock 7, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 5
@Murray State 11,
Lindenwood 9
@SIUE 12, Evansville 11
BELLARMINE 10, SOUTHERN INDIANA 8
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Despite a strong offensive performance, University of Southern Indiana Baseball fell to host Bellarmine University, 10-8, in an Ohio Valley Conference versus Atlantic Sun Conference tilt.
The Screaming Eagles (7-9) jumped out to an early 1-0 lead over their former Great Lakes Valley Conference rivals when sophomore infielder Parker Martin drove in senior outfielder Khi Holiday in the top of the first inning.
Bellarmine (3-13), however, answered with a five-run third inning to take a 5-1 lead over the Eagles. The Knights took advantage of a wild pitch and had a pair of home runs in the inning to take the four-run advantage.
USI wasted little time answering the Knights' challenge as it put up a five spot in the top of the fourth inning to retake the lead. Junior infielder Noah Smallwood opened the scoring with an RBI-double down the leftfield line, while sophomore infielder Anthony Umbach had a sacrifice fly to cut Bellarmine's lead to 5-3.
Junior catcher Micajah Wall pushed across the next run with a single, while Holiday tied the game with an infield single. The Eagles reclaimed the lead with an RBI-single by junior infielder Cole Kitchens.
Bellarmine, once again, put up crooked numbers in the last half of the fifth inning to take a 9-6 advantage. A two-run single capped off a four-run frame for the Knights, who scored their first two runs on wild pitches.
USI looked as if it might answer the Knights once more in the top of the sixth as it had the bases loaded with no outs. However, a double-play groundout that scored a run put a damper on the Eagles' charge. Martin had an RBI-single to cut the Eagles' deficit to 9-8, but that was all USI would get out of the inning.
Bellarmine tacked on an insurance run in the home half of the sixth inning and the Eagles threatened with a two-out rally in the top of the ninth, but the Knight's pitching induced a ground-out to end the threat and preserve the victory.
Freshman pitcher Marshall Loch (0-2) was charged with the loss for USI after giving up four runs off two hits and three walks in an inning of work.
Junior outfielder Patrick McLellan led the Eagles at the plate, going 3-of-4 with a double and three runs scored.
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 8, SAINT LOUIS 1
ST. LOUIS - Southeast Missouri Baseball (10-7) picked up their fourth-straight victory on Wednesday afternoon with an 8-1 victory over Saint Louis (8-8) from Billikens Sports Complex.
RHPs Mason Pennington and Kayden Kohlberg (1-1) stifled the Billikens offense allowing just a combined four hits. In his first start in a Redhawk uniform, Pennington pitched 4.2 innings allowing just one run on three hits. He struck out a season-high four batters in the outing.
Kohlberg picked up his first win of the season in just his third appearance of 2025. He struck out a season-high five strikeouts in 3.1 innings of work. He allowed no runs and just one hit.
The offense jumped out of the gate early with a two-run first inning. After Caleb Corbin led off the game with an infield single and then came across to score on an RBI double by Michael Mugan to make it 1-0 Redhawks.
Two batters later, right fielder Cole Warehime roped a single up the middle to score Mugan with two outs as the Redhawks took a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the first.
After a leadoff walk to Caleb Corbin in the third inning, Bryce Cannon stepped to the plate with two outs. Cannon roped a single to right field to make it 3-0 SEMO for the second RBI with two outs of the contest.
SLU's Austin Neuweg hit a solo home run in the bottom half for the Billikens' only run of the contest.
Corbin and Mugan each homered in the top of the fifth inning. Both left the yard with a solo blast, Mugan's coming with two outs. For Corbin, the blast was his second home run in two days.
The sixth inning featured a pinch-hit at-bat from Gunnar Doyle. With two runners on, Doyle crushed a ball over the right field fence for his first homer of the season to put SEMO up 8-1. The pinch-hit blast was the second of its kind in two-straight games.
RHP Gavin Johnston pitched the bottom of the ninth inning and did not allow a hit to seal the 8-1 victory for the Redhawks.
LITTLE ROCK 7 ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF 5
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - It wasn't easy, but Little Rock avenged a loss to Arkansas-Pine Bluff with a 7-5 victory Wednesday afternoon at Gary Hogan Field. The Golden Lions (1-15) took a 7-4 win on Tuesday in Pine Bluff.
UAPB was trying to beat the Trojans twice in the same season for the first time since 1978, but instead some late-inning heroics moved Little Rock's home record in the series to 23-1.
After the Golden Lions tied the game at 5 in the top of the 8th, Little Rock (7-10) took the lead for good in the bottom half of the frame when Zach Henry delivered an RBI single scoring Reed Willbanks. Ty Rhoades added an insurance run with a double scoring pitcher Blake Van Cleve, who was pinch running.
Rhoades' final hit made him 3-for-3 with 4 RBI on the day. Sammy Harris was 1-for-2 with 2 RBI. Jack Cline (3-1), normally a weekend starter, came out of the bullpen to get the win pitching two innings and giving up two hits while walking one and striking out one.
Malcolm Brown started the game. He gave up two hits and struck out four while holding the Golden Lions scoreless for four frames.
Rhoades put the Trojans on the board in the third inning with a two-run homer his second in as many days. The 2-0 lead held up until the fifth when UAPB tied the game, but Rhoades responded in the bottom half of the frame with a double that scored Kade Goeke.
The Golden Lions knotted the score again in the top of the sixth, but the Trojans took a 5-3 lead in the bottom half of the frame when Sammy Harris doubled. The Golden Lions added single runs in the seventh and eighth innings to tie the game again.
Little Rock banged out 10 hits but stranded 12 runners.
MURRAY STATE 11, LINDENWOOD 9
MURRAY, Ky. - The Lindenwood baseball team (8-10) dropped its second close game in a row to Murray State (10-3) by a score of 11-9 on Wednesday afternoon in Murray, Ky.
The Lions jumped on the Racers early with two in the top of the first. Kam Edwards led off with a single and was eventually brought home on an RBI double by Filip Sarota. Jake Radosevich was the next man up and he changed placed with Sarota on a double of his own, making the score 2-0.
Murray State answered back with four runs in the bottom half, to take a 4-2 lead. Radosevich hit an opposite field homer to leadoff the third, cutting the deficit to 4-3, and Bryson Arnette launched one to center later in the inning to tie things at 4.
Lindenwood regained the lead in the fifth after a big two out hit from Evan Funkhouser drove in Sam Grunberg, giving the Lions a 5-4 advantage. Murray State used a trio of home runs in the bottom of the inning to take a 9-5 lead.
The Lions chipped away and plated three in the seventh. After the first two runners reached base, Charlie Isom-McCall tripled home Funkhouser and Arnette. Isom-McCall eventually scored on a groundout from Edwards, cutting the deficit to 9-8. The Racers tacked on a run in the bottom half, going up 10-8.
Arnette brought home a run with an RBI single in the eighth, pulling Lindenwood within one once again at 10-9. Murray State regained a two-run advantage, before closing it out in the ninth to win 11-9.
SIUE 12, EVANSVILLE 11
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Daniel Gierer's base hit past a drawn in infield capped off a four-run ninth inning and gave SIUE baseball a 12-11 walk-off win over Evansville at Simmons Baseball Complex Wednesday.
With SIUE trailing 11-8 going to the ninth, Ethan Willoughby walked to start the inning. Kyle Ratliff singled off Evansville pitcher Drew Fieger's leg. Trace Harrington brought home a run with a sacrifice fly to left before Lane Crowden reached on an infield hit.
Gage Franck came off the bench and roped a pinch-hit triple into the right-centerfield gap to score Ratliff and Crowden, tying the game at 11 and setting stage for Gierer.
The Cougars improved to 5-10 with the win. Evansville fell to 5-11.
Bolstered by a three-home run, seven-RBI day from Chase Bloomer, the Cougars erased a 10-0 deficit in the game. Bloomer finished the game 3-5 with three runs.
He is the first Cougar to home three times in a game since Brady Bunten in 2022.
Evansville (5-11) got up 10-0 after 2 ½ innings, scoring four times in the first and adding another four runs in the second. The Aces scored twice in the third.
Bloomer hit the first of his home runs in the third, a two-run shot that followed a double from Mack Mitchell. SIUE got an RBI-double from Lane Crowden in the fourth to cut the lead back to 10-3. Bloomer homered following a walk to Mitchell in the fifth to make it 10-5. Bloomer's third blast of the day, a three-run homer, in the sixth inning cut the Evansville lead to 10-8.
The Aces picked up another run in the seventh and took an 11-8 lead into the ninth inning.
Crowden finished 4-5 with the RBI and a run scored. Gierer and Mitchell each finished with two hits.
Tyler Davis (1-1) picked up the win in relief. Davis pitched the ninth inning, striking out two. Duncan McLaughlin, Kieran Bailey and Zach Duenas all provided scoreless outings for the Cougars.
UE catcher Matt Flaherty finished the game 2-5 with four RBIs to lead the Aces.
Fieger (0-1) suffered the loss on the mound. He worked a total of 2 2/3 innings. He gave up six hits and struck out four.