RUSTON, La. – In the second game of the Conference USA Championship for the Monarchs, the No. 18 nationally ranked Old Dominion baseball team downed Middle Tennessee by a 10-6 score on Thursday afternoon at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park in Ruston, Louisiana. With the score tied 1-1, ODU exploded for seven runs in the bottom of the fifth, highlighted by a Tommy Bell grand slam.
Today's win marked the 40th of the season for the No. 4 seeded Monarchs (40-14), which is the most victories for the program since 1994, when ODU went 40-14.