CINCINNATI – The Bearcats scored 15 runs on 14 hits to defeat the Butler Bulldogs in eight innings on Saturday afternoon. The win gives UC a 10-13 overall record and the setback moves BU to 4-17.
 
Cincinnati hit three home runs on the day starting with a three-run shot in the first inning. BU would chip away at the lead with a two-RBI single from Dominic Milano in the second, but the fourth inning brought more trouble to BU with the Bearcats scoring three more runs.
 
The Bulldogs cut the deficit in half in the fifth after an RBI single from Jake DeFries, but Cincinnati was able to add two more runs in bottom half of the inning. The final two Butler runs came around to score in the sixth. Billy Wurch tripled down the line to score Xavier Carter and then Wurch would come in to score on the Joey Urban single to left.
 
Urban and DeFries each had two hits for the Bulldogs. Garret Gray had three of Butler's 11 total hits in the contest.
 
Cincinnati stayed in control with a two-RBI homer in the sixth and they would add four more in the bottom of the eighth.
 
Each starter threw five innings in a warm, yet very windy day. Bosecker (0-4) took the loss and would exit the game after recording four strikeouts for the 'Dawgs. The win went to Hopewell (1-1).
 
These two teams will meet again tomorrow for a doubleheader that begins at Noon.