DELAND, Fla. _ The University of Central Arkansas Bears continued their run through the ASUN Championship Pool B on Friday night with a big winner-take-all 11-6 victory over the Jacksonville Dolphins at Melching Field at Conrad Park.

Their third straight tournament victory gives the Bears the Pool B championship and puts them in the ASUN semifinals, joining three teams from Pool A. The Bears will face second-seed Kennesaw State at 10 a.m. (CST) Saturday in single-elimination play. The other semifinal features No. 3 Stetson and No. 4 Florida Gulf Coast at 2 p.m. (CST). 

The championship game will be held at noon Sunday from Melching Field, with the winner earning an NCAA Tournament automatic bid.

The Bears, playing their third game in three days, exploded for five runs in the fourth inning, sending 10 batters to the plate, and padding their 3-1 lead to 8-1. UCA had seven singles in the inning, from Kade Seldomridge, Bryce Cermenelli, Mason King, Tanner Leonard, Zeb Allen, A.J. Mendolia and Drew Sturgeon.
 
UCA also got stolen bases from Seldomridge and Sturgeon and a walk to designated hitter Jake Trabbie in the inning.

The Bears already had a 3-1 lead after knocking around Jacksonville starter Tommy Allman in the bottom of the first. Mendolia walked and Sturgeon followed with a double. A single to first base by catcher Casey Shipley and a safety squeeze bunt by Bryce Cermenelli scored the first two runs, and a Trabbie single up the middle made it an early 3-0 lead. 

UCA starter sophomore Coleman MacRae was in control into the sixth inning, striking out five and allowing just two runs to earn the victory. After a middle relief outing from Gavin Alveti, senior Trent Gregson came on in the seventh and struck out five over the final 2.1 innings to earn his second save of the season and seventh of his career.

Leonard finished 3 for 4 with 2 runs scored and 1 RBI. Allen was 2 for 4 with 2 runs scored and 3 RBI, while Sturgeon, Shipley and Seldomridge added two hits each. Every UCA starter had a hit and scored a run and eight of the nine had an RBI in one of the Bears' best offensive outings of the season.

Jacksonville, who had to come out of the loser's bracket and was playing its fourth game in four days, finished with 11 hits but lost to the Bears for the second straight day. 

UCA and Kennesaw are the only two undefeated teams in the tournament. The Owls are 2-0 after Friday's third day of round-robin was canceled because the two games did not effect the teams advancing to the semifinals after Austin Peay was eliminated.