Box Score JACKSON, Miss. – The Belhaven baseball team (24-7, 8-5 SSAC) defeated Loyola University (16-14, 6-7 SSAC) 14-0 on Friday night to pick up a Southern States Athletic Conference victory. The win was Belhaven's second of the week after defeating crosstown rival Tougaloo College on Wednesday.

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"I'd love to see more of these kinds of games, but Loyola is a much better team than tonight showed," Head Coach Hill Denson said. "Baseball is a funny game sometimes, and tonight we were on the right end."

The Belhaven runs came in bunches, as the home team scored three in the first inning and five in the second before adding three more in the fourth and the final three in the sixth.

Five Blazers highlighted the effort at the plate, as Reagan Rutledge, Emilio DeSilva, Tyler Akins, Dominick Francia, and Gabe Wilson each contributed multi-hit ballgames and combined for 10 RBI. Dan Ammirati added a pinch-hit RBI groundout in the bottom of the sixth.

Right handed starter Boomer Scarborough (4-3) surrendered just one hit, a third inning single from shortstop Harold Toscano. Scarborough issued one walk and struck out three in his second complete game shutout of the year.

"It helped to get three runs in the first inning, but Boomer was big for us tonight," Denson said. "If we can get him to stay in that kind of groove all the time, this team can be really good."

Loyola starter Daniel Posway (3-3) was charged with ten runs through his 3.1 innings of work, though just four of those were earned. Stewart Campbell and Michael Pfister combined for the next two innings, allowing four runs on four Blazer hits before Jordan Green recorded the final out.

The two squads will return to action on Saturday, when they will play a doubleheader at Smith-Wills Stadium. First pitch is slated for 1:00 pm.

"With a win tonight, we would love to sweep tomorrow, but it's tough to do that to anybody in this conference," Denson said. "We've just got to play things one game at a time."