PENSACOLA, Fla. – No. 12 ranked UWF was held to four hits in a 6-1 loss to Barry in a NCAA South Regional #2 winner's bracket game at Jim Spooner Field on Friday night.
 
UWF (39-15) drops into the loser's bracket where it will face Montevallo on Saturday morning at 11 a.m. The winner of that contest will need to beat Barry twice – once Saturday and again on Sunday – to advance to the super regional round.
 
But on Friday, Barry's Mike Reagan (10-1) struck out 15 and held the Argonauts to four hits in a complete game victory. It was a season-high for strikeouts by UWF hitters for the second-consecutive game after going down 12 times against Florida Southern in their 2-0 win on Thursday.
 
"Give Barry credit and Raegan had a really good change up and mixed the fastball and slider well," UWF head coach Mike Jeffcoat said. "Other than Prizina's home run we really didn't get anything going."
 
Barry (34-17) finished with 14 hits and scored two runs in both the fifth and eighth innings. Jake Ogden went 3-for-4 with three RBI, including a run-scoring triple in the sixth.
 
The biggest hit of the game for UWF came in the third inning, when Josh Prizina connected on a 2-2 offering for his fourth home run of the year, staking the visitors on the scoreboard a 1-0 lead.
 
The lead was short-lived as the Bucs tied it up an inning later when Braden Forchic belted a solo homer to right.
 
Barry took the lead for good with a pair of runs in the fifth. Evan Wickeri laid down a squeeze bunt that Ogden slid in ahead of the ball. Two batters later, Steven Nitch scored on Forchic's sacrifice fly to left.
 
Barry made it 4-1 when Brandon Sanchez scored from first on Ogden's triple to left field. The Bucs added their final runs in the eighth, when Sanchez and Savi Delgado scored a slow-rolling single from Ogden back up the box into center field.
 
In addition to Prizina, Jadon Fryman, Dean Hotz and Trent Jeffcoat all had one hit.