CLINTON, MIss. – The Belhaven Baseball team earned two wins against The W Owls in non-conference action. The Blazers took game one of the doubleheader by a final score of 7-3 and took the nightcap by a final score of 10-8 at Frierson Field on the campus of Mississippi College. With the sweep, the Blazers improve to 18-11 overall. 
 
GAME ONE
 
In the first game of the afternoon it was MUW who struck first in the top of the second inning to take an early 1-0 lead. The Blazers answered in the bottom of the inning scoring a run off of a bases loaded walk to even the score at 1. 

In the fourth inning, Belhaven bats came to life and scored five runs to extend their lead to 6-1. It was a bases loaded hit-by-pitch by Nick Lucido to give the Blazers the first run of the inning. A 2-RBI Double by Dawson Albin and a 2-RBI Single from Chase Kitchens in the inning gave BU the commanding 6-1 lead.
 
MUW cut the lead to 6-3 in the top of the fifth inning, but the Blazers added another run in the sixth off of a throwing error by the catcher to make the score 7-1.
 
The Blazers took the seven inning contest and game one of doubleheader by a final score of 7-3 in non-conference play.
 
BELHAVEN PITCHERS

Harris Coleman - 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 K
Beau Louviere - 2.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
Preston Canale (W, 2-0) - 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 0 K
Reed Vincent - 1.0 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
Joshua Thomas - 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K
 
BELHAVEN BATTING LEADERS
 
Chase Kitchens – 2-2, 2 RBI, BB, R
Matthew Charbonnet - 2-2, 2 BB, R
Dawson Albin - 1-4, 2 RBI, R
Kyle McLaughlin - 1-2, RBI, 2 BB, R
 
GAME TWO
 
In the second game of the day and the nightcap of the doubleheader, the Blazers got off to a hot start by scoring three runs in the bottom of the first inning to take a 3-0 lead. 
 
In the bottom half of the second inning, Nick Lucido doubled to right field that scored McLaughlin to extend the lead to 4-0. Dawson Albin kept the inning alive after a RBI single to left field to give the Green and Gold the five run advantage.

In the fourth inning, Nick Lucido hit a RBI single that scored Kyle McLaughlin and Lucido came around to score on a throwing error by the pitcher to give the Blazers the 7-0 lead. Still in the fourth inning, BU tacked on two more runs in the inning to take a commanding 9-0 lead going into the fifth inning. 

Nick Lucido earned another RBI in the contest with a single that scored Max Licciardi to give the Blazers a 10 run lead. 

MUW came up in the top of the sixth inning and scored seven runs to cut the lead to 10-7  in the second game of the doubleheader. The Owls tacked on another run in the top of the seventh to make the score 10-8. Both teams were scoreless for the remainder of the ballgame as the Blazers defeated the Owls 10-8 to take game two and the doubleheader sweep. 
 
BELHAVEN PITCHERS
 
Nate Hannum - 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K
Noah Whatley - 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
Jacob Doyle - 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
Christian Cassels (W, 2-0) – 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 1 K
Kyle Whittington - 0.1 IP 0 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 0 K
Trevor Waddell - 0.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 0 ER, 1 K
Logan Goodreau - 2.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
Will Swift (S,4) – 1.0 IP, 0H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
 
BELHAVEN BATTING LEADERS
 
Nick Lucido– 3-4, 2B, 3 RBI, 3 R
Dawson Albin – 3-4, 2B, SB, 4 RBI, 3 R
 
The Blazers will return to action on Thursday, April 14 for a doubleheader against ASC foe Hardin Simmons University Cowboys in Abilene,Texas beginning at 3:00 p.m. The final game of the three game series will be on Friday, April 15 at Noon. 

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