Belmont University announced on May 13 that its men’s baseball team will travel to Terre Haute, Indiana, for a three-game Missouri Valley Conference series against the Indiana State Sycamores. The games are scheduled from Thursday through Saturday at Bob Warn Field, with opening pitches set for 5:30 p.m. Central Time on both Thursday and Friday, and the regular season finale at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
The upcoming series marks the end of the regular season for Belmont, which enters the weekend with a record of 19-33 overall and 9-12 in conference play after facing Tennessee earlier in the week. The team aims to finish its season strongly as it returns focus to conference competition.
Offensively, Belmont has been led by middle infielders Charlie Davis and Landon Godsey. Davis is currently batting .335 with five triples—ranking first in the Missouri Valley Conference—and has accumulated eight home runs and 38 runs batted in (RBI). Godsey is batting .305 with nine home runs and leads the team with 41 RBI; his twenty doubles are tied for first place in the conference entering this final weekend of play. Together, Davis and Godsey have helped anchor an offense that has produced a total of fifty-eight home runs and eighty-nine doubles this season.
Other key contributors include Jake Maddox, who is hitting .288 with seven home runs and thirty-two RBI, as well as Cavan McMeans who has added fifty-four hits from his spot in the lineup. Veteran catcher Mike Sprockett has appeared in forty-eight games during his final collegiate season.
On the pitching side, Belmont will rely on Shane Duke as Friday’s starter following his return from injury; he has pitched nearly ten innings with fourteen strikeouts since coming back. Junior Zane Brown is slated to start Saturday after posting a 4.86 earned run average (ERA) this year alongside thirty-seven strikeouts. Freshman Ridge Harvey will start Sunday; he holds a 4.75 ERA over thirteen appearances—including seven starts—and ranks second on the team with forty-four strikeouts.
Indiana State enters this series holding a record of twenty-nine wins and twenty-three losses overall while leading their conference standings at fourteen wins and seven losses within league play. Their offense features Carter Beck—batting .349—as well as pitchers Ryan Karst (3.35 ERA) and Ty Brooks (5-3 record).
Historically, Belmont trails Indiana State two wins to ten all-time but won their most recent meeting two games to one thanks to Landon Godsey’s walk-off homerun last year.
