WARRENSBURG, Mo. – Central Missouri Mules baseball made it back-to-back walk-off wins after
Brennen van Breusegen belted an RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Mules an 8-7, comeback victory over the Maryville University Saints Tuesday, Feb. 28, at Crane Stadium/Tompkins Field.
Central Missouri (10-5, 3-0 MIAA) is scheduled to travel to Tahlequah, Okla., for a three-game MIAA series at Northeastern State March 3-5.
The Saints (2-5) led 7-2 before the Mules took control of the game in the last two innings, plating three runs each in the eighth and ninth frames, completing the comeback.
In the eighth,
Carter Young hit a single to center, scoring
Isaiah Pani, who led-off the frame with a double, before van Breusegen hit a towering, two-run homer to left field, trimming the Maryville lead to 7-5. It was his third home run of the season.
John Prudhom hit a pinch-hit double to left-center to lead-off the bottom of the ninth, prior to moving to third on a
Cole Moore ground-out and scoring on Pani's infield single to shortstop, pulling UCM within 7-6. Young kept the inning alive, roping a single to centerfield, allowing pinch-runner
Jack Schark to move to third.
Young stole second base, followed by van Breusegen smacking a 3-2 pitch through the left side, which drove in Schark and Young, who represented the game-winning runs for the Mules.
Young finished the game with three hits in four at bats and scored three runs while van Breusegen went 2-for-4 with a homer, four RBI and two runs, and Pani had a pair of hits, including a double, pacing Central Missouri at the plate.
Reliever
JD McReynolds (2-0) earned the win on the mound for UCM, allowing no earned runs on one hit with a strikeout in the top of the ninth inning.
Michael Gould went 2-for-5 with two RBI and two runs, pacing Maryville offensively.
Saints reliever Jamie Young (0-1) suffered the setback on the rubber after giving up three earned runs on four hits in two thirds of an inning.
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