DAVENPORT, Fla. - Beloit's baseball team continued its strong start to the 2023 season on Sunday, splitting a pair of games against UW-Superior. The Buccaneers lost game one 3-2 in extra innings, before salvaging the split with an 8-4 game two victory.

Game one saw UW-Superior (2-1) score two runs in the third inning, coming on an RBI single and on a throwing error by the Buccaneers. The score would remain 2-0 until the bottom of the final inning of regulation when Evan Zenger crushed a two-run homer over the right field wall to force extra innings, which saw UW-Superior push across the winning run on a sacrifice fly in the top of the eighth.

Beloit (2-1) finished the game with five hits from five different players, while UW-Superior's three runs came on just three hits, all of which came from Nick Dagonstino, who also scored two runs and drove in another.

Eamon Burke started on the mound for the Buccaneers, allowing just one earned run on two hits in four innings, before giving way to a bullpen that surrendered just one hit in the final four innings of the contest, with Ryan Deany, Joshua Stern, and Miles Souza all contributing.

Beloit's bats then came alive in the second game of the doubleheader, as they scored four runs on five hits in the top of the first to take early control of the game. Connor Vogel, Souza, Brett Kiger, and Zenger each recorded RBI singles in that inning.

UW-Superior would battle back with three runs, to cut Beloit's lead to one, but Vogel added another RBI single in the fourth to put the Buccaneers up 5-3. After Superior scored again to cut it to one once more, Beloit put the game away with a three-run seventh, keyed by a two-run single off the bat of Jack Alport, to go along with a bases loaded sac bunt by Tyler Hoover, which scored Souza from third.

Beloit finished the game with 12 hits, including three off the bat of Vogel and two apiece from Kiger, Alport, and Garrison Ferone. Kaiya Nishino pitched five innings for the victory, striking out four batters, while Caleb Lasher recorded the save with two hitless innings of relief.

The Buccaneers will be in action again on Monday when they'll face Simpson College. That game will begin at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time in Auburndale, Fla. at Lake Myrtle Field #1.