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Winner Central Mo. UCM 7-2, 2-0 MIAA
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Missouri Western State University MWSU 1-8, 0-2 MIAA
Winner
Central Mo. UCM
7-2, 2-0 MIAA
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Final
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Missouri Western State University MWSU
1-8, 0-2 MIAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Central Mo. UCM 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 11 0
Missouri Western State University MWSU 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 6 1

W: C. Massey (1-0) L: Shorb, Jayson (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball falls short in doubleheader against No. 3 UCM Monday

Griffons held a lead in the first game, played Mules within a run in the second.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - Missouri Western baseball (1-9, 0-3 MIAA) battled with No. 3 Central Missouri in a pair of nine inning games Monday, but the Mules took the first game 14-8 and the second 3-2 at the MWSU Spring Sports Complex.

UCM (8-2, 3-0 MIAA) swept the three-game series, which started with a single game on Sunday afternoon.

Missouri Western is back home to face UMary in a single non-conference game on Wednesday at 3 p.m.

Game 1: UCM 14 Missouri Western 8
Missouri Western got the scoring started with two runs in the first inning and three more in the second. Quinn Gundelfinger hit an inside the park home run in the second, which scored three runs and put the Griffs up 5-0.

UCM answered with five runs in the top of the third. Western jumped back in front 7-5 in the fourth, thanks in part to an RBI single by Jackson Bryant. Still leading 7-6 in the sixth, Gundelfinger doubled through the middle, scoring Easton O'Keefe.

Trailing 8-6 entering the eighth, UCM slammed the door with four runs in the eighth and four more in the ninth. The Griffons tallied 10 hits in Game 1, led by Gundelfinger who went 3-for-4 at the plate with two runs scored and a season-high four RBIs. Anthony Taggart was 3-for-5 with two RBIs and a double.

Colby Deaver (0-3) went 5.2 innings in middle relief for Western, giving up nine hits and five earned runs. He struck out two and walked one.

Game 2: UCM 3 Missouri Western 2
UCM drew first blood with two runs in the top of the third, but MWSU had an answer in the bottom of the sixth.

Logan Meyers scored Quinton Robertson from third base on a fielder's choice bunt to the pitcher. In the next at-bat, Anthony Taggart laid a bunt down the first base line, which allowed Quinn Gundelfinger to score from third and tie the game at 2-2.

UCM's go-ahead run came in the eighth inning with an RBI double by Chase Wilcox. The Mules then proceeded to silence the Griffon bats in the closing innings, as reliever Chris Massey (1-0) tossed the final 3.2 innings, striking out 9 of 11 batters faced.

UCM's pitching staff recorded 18 punch outs to just one walk.

Gunnar Nartker went 5.2 innings on the hill for MWSU, making his third start of the season and recording a season-best six strikeouts. Jayson Shorb (0-1) took the loss, tossing two innings of middle relief, giving up two hits and one earned run in the eighth.

At the plate, Taggart, Gundelfinger and Blake Venneman each had a pair of hits. 
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