LEBANON, Tenn. – Gabe Lares posted three hits and Ryan Dickison and Ryan Simmons added two hits apiece, but 12th-ranked Bellevue University scored five runs in the third inning and Cumberland stranded 10 runners in a 5-1 loss to the Bruins Sunday night in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Cumberland (13-8) continues action in Daytona Beach on Monday with a 5 p.m. CT contest against Embry-Riddle and also plays Keiser University on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. CT.

Colton Nash’s two-run single and an RBI infield hit by Jake Browne gave the Bruins (11-2) a 3-0 lead in the third inning. Two more runs came across on wild pitches and that was all that Bellevue starter Braulio Torres-Perez (3-0) would need.

The lefthander scattered 11 hits but allowed just an unearned run in 8.2 innings of work. He walked one, hit a batter and struck out six before Kevin Rodriguez picked up the save, getting Hector Viera to ground out to end the game.

Cumberland stranded two runners in the first and ninth innings and at least one baserunner in every inning but the fifth. CU also lined into a pair of inning-ending doubleplays, in the fifth and eighth, against Torres-Perez, and went 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position in the loss.

Cumberland starter Mike Melendez (2-3) battled through 5.2 innings, giving up five runs on 12 hits. The lefthander walked four and struck out six while also throwing three wild pitches.

Parker Cash tossed 3.1 innings of shutout relief, allowing three hits and one walk with three strikeouts. Bellevue stranded 11 runners in the game and had 20 total baserunners in the contest.

Elijah Dickerson led off the third for the Bruins with a double down the leftfield line and Trevor Jones reached on a bunt single, putting runners on the corners. Matt Evans walked, loading the bases, before a two-run single through the left side from Nash.

Derik Bontempo followed with a single to right, loading the bases again, and Browne’s infield hit plated another run. Nash and Bontempo both later scored on wild pitches for a 5-0 Bellevue advantage.

Cumberland’s only run of the game came in the sixth inning when Mitch Langer reached with one out on an error by Bellevue shortstop Dickerson. Dickison singled for CU and an error by Bruins right fielder Nash off the bat of Josh Croft allowed Langer to score.

Viera and Nick McGrew both singled in the first but Langer struck out and Dickison grounded into a fielder’s choice to end that threat. Viera lined into a doubleplay to end the fifth after a leadoff walk by Kyle Allen and Croft’s line drive doubleplay to end the eighth came after singles by Langer and Dickison.

In the ninth Simmons singled with one out and Lares singled with two outs, putting the tying run in the on-deck single and ending the day for Torres-Perez, but Viera grounded to third to end the contest.