WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — A seven-run seventh inning helped St. Bonaventure turn a one-run lead in to a convincing 14-5 win over Western Michigan on Thursday evening at Chain Of Lakes Park at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational.

The win is the second straight for the Bonnies (2-4), who will get a second crack at defeating a BCS Conference foe on Friday morning when they take on Big East member Villanova at 10 a.m. St. Bonaventure has defeated a BCS school in its last three southern trips, including 5-2 victory over Villanova last season. The Wildcats enter Friday's game with a 9-1 record.

It was the junior duo of Jesse Bosnik and Derek Speaker that led at 14-hit attack by the Bonnies, their fourth straight double-digit hit total. Bosnik's 3-for-6 afternoon featured a double, a three-run home run, two runs scored and four RBI. Bosnik has now put together four straight multi-hit games, going 11-for-21 over that span. Playing in just his fourth game as a Bonnie, Speaker went 4-for-5 with three RBI.

Making just the second start of his career, sophomore Nick Brennen (pictured) tossed six innings en route to his first career win on the mound. The hard-throwing lefty scattered 10 hits and struck out two, but more importantly gave the Bona bullpen a rest. Redshirt senior Brian Hardner followed with a pair of scoreless innings and freshman Robert Nalepa did the same in the ninth.

Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the third, the Bonnies plated three runs to regain the lead, at 5-3. Brennen helped himself in the inning, drilling a two-run single to give the Brown and White the lead.

Both teams scored a run in the fifth making the score 6-5 in favor of the Bonnies until a game-changing seven-run seventh gave the Brown and White all the run support it would need. Bosnik delivered the first big blow of the inning, cracking a three-run home run over the right center wall. Speaker capped things from the No. 8 spot in the lineup with a two-run single that gave St. Bonaventure a comfortable 13-5 advantage.

The game's final run of the came in the bottom half of the eighth when Bosnik equaled his career-high RBI total with a run-scoring single.

Sophomore Ryan Skellie continued to produce out of the cleanup position going 2-for-5 with three runs scored. Skellie has scored 10 runs over the last five games and has three straight multi-hit performances.