FLORENCE, Ala. -- Playing its first home game of the 2019 season, the University of North Alabama baseball team scored eight runs on seven hits and posted an 8-5 win over Butler at Mike Lane Field.

The win snapped an eight-game losing streak for the Lions, competing for their first season as an NCAA Division I program. UNA is now 3-12 overall, while Butler had its four-game winning streak snapped and is now 8-6.

UNA got a run in the second inning and two in the fifth for a 3-0 lead. Butler got a run back in the sixth but UNA answered with a run in the bottom of the frame. The Bulldogs added a second run in the top of the seventh but UNA scored three in the bottom of the seventh to make it 7-2.

Butler loaded the bases in the eighth but could only force one run across as Keegan Foge came on in relief to record back-to-back strikeouts to end the threat. A UNA run in the bottom of the eighth made it 8-3 and a two-run homer by Butler's Andy Bennett in the ninth made the final count 8-5.

Adam Mancour, the first of six Lions to throw in the game, got the winm allowing no runs on one hit in two innings of work. He had two strikeouts.

UNA' Peyton Sockwell singled with two outs in the second inning and later scored the game's first run on a Reid Singewald RBI-single.

In the fifth, Peyton Thomas walked with the bases loaded to force in a run and Reid Homan drove in a run on a fielder's choice.

Singewald had another RBI-single in the sixth, Homan had an RBI-single in the seventh and then scored on an error and Tate Mathis drove in a run on a sacrifice fly in the eighth.

UNA was led by Singewald and Colt Chrestman with two hits each.

North Alabama plays a three-game series at Davidson beginning Friday.