JOPLIN, Mo. – Missouri Southern (7-2) powered past Oklahoma Baptist (6-2) on Tuesday with a 21-6 result at Warner Turner Field.
The Lions attained 13 extra-base knocks which included four homers and eight doubles. By the conclusion, MSSU tallied 17 hits, the most given up by the Bison staff this season.
MSSU set the tone from the get-go with two- and three-run homers from Henry Kusiak and Garrett Rice, respectively. It was 5-0 Lions after one frame.
OBU's
Jacob Campbell did inch the Bison closer in the home half of the second, lifting a two-run homer to left center. That was his second homer in the last three games, and it pushed
Troy Shields across home too.
After that, though, MSSU poured on four more runs in the second and third frames to go up 13-2. Through the first three frames alone, the hosts notched 11 hits to go along with their 13 runs.
As for OBU's scoring efforts after that,
Alex Schroeder drove in two after a right-field fielding error in the fifth, and a frame later,
Isiah Lissade and
Jayden Shafer brought in OBU's fifth and sixth runs courtesy of a bases-loaded walk and bases-loaded hit-by-pitch.
On the mound,
Jordan Brewer was most effective for OBU. He tossed the fourth frame and got three strikeouts.
OBU will look to regroup when it returns to the diamond this Friday, Feb. 16 at 5 p.m. against Great American Conference foe Arkansas Tech.
