DELAND, Fla. _ The University of Central Arkansas Bears are still alive in the 2025 ASUN Championship.

The Bears put it all together Wednesday night in a 7-4 victory over the Lipscomb Bisons in an elimination game at Melching Field at Conrad Park.

UCA got a stellar start from junior Gavin Alveti, with a career-high seven strikeouts, and an impressive closing outing from junior Hunter Alexander to keep the Bears' season alive. Alveti tossed a career-high 6 innings, allowing just 5 hits, 2 runs and one walk. Alexander went the final 2.1 innings for his 10th career save. 

The Bears put up three runs on three hits off Lipscomb starter Rigo Ramos. Freshman Nate Negre started it with a single up the middle and a stolen base. Preston Curtis followed with a base hit, moving Negre to third. A ground out put Curtis on second before Sam Reynolds walked to load the bases.

Negre came in on a Ramos wild pitch and freshman Noah Goodshield laced a two-run double into the left-center gap to make it a 3-0 lead. 

After the Bisons got a run back in the fourth inning, UCA responded with a two-run sixth. Jagger Schattle led off with a walk and Sam Reynolds added a base hit. Both runners advanced on a wild pitch and Schattle scored on an RBI single by Carter Alexander.

Keon Moseni walked to load the bases and senior Tanner Leonard hit a sacrifice fly to right field, bringing in Reynolds for a 5-1 lead. 

In the seventh, Goodshield picked up his third RBI of the night with a bases-loaded single to right field that scored Negre.

Jagger Schattle's pop up to shallow left field fell between three Bisons in the eighth, allowing Tanner Leonard to score from second base to pad the lead to 7-4.  

Alexander, who was a closer in 2024 and a starter for most of this season, came on in the seventh inning and got out of a bases-loaded jam. He ended with three strikeouts and just one hit, including a strikeout and a ground ball out in the decisive ninth.

Negre finished 3 for 5 and scored two runs, while Goodshield was 2 for 4 with 3 RBI. UCA finished with 10 hits, including a pair of doubles by Goodshield. Senior Preston Curtis was 2 for 4 with a run scored as well.

The Bears will now face the loser of Thursday's Stetson-Florida Gulf Coast game at 1 p.m. (CST) on Friday.