WARRENSBURG, Mo. – Third-ranked Central Missouri Mules baseball swept the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys in a doubleheader Saturday, Feb. 8, at Crane Stadium/Tompkins Field, winning game one, 6-0 in seven innings, and game two, 13-2, also in seven innings.
With the pair of wins, the Mules (5-2) secure a four-game series win over the Wonder Boys (1-6), winning the series, 3-1.
In Central Missouri's 6-0, shutout victory in game one, the Mules plated four runs in the second inning and added two in the third enroute to the triumph.
UCM scored its four runs in the second on a bases loaded walk, bases loaded hit by pitch, RBI fielder's choice from
Jacob Steele, and an RBI ground-out bunt from
Chase Heath, before RBI singles from
Cole Funkhouser and
Will Krzykowski tacked on Central Missouri's two runs in the third frame.
Krzykowski went a perfect 2-for-2 at the plate and drove in two runs to pace UCM offensively in game one.
Right-handed starting pitcher
Evan O'Toole (1-0) earned the win on the mound, allowing no earned runs on just three hits with six strikeouts and only two walks in five innings.
In the Mules' 13-2, run-rule win in the nightcap, UCM used an eight-run sixth inning to pull away from Arkansas Tech and coast to the victory.
Funkhouser got the scoring going in the sixth with a RBI single through the right side before
Dayvin Johnson belted a bases-clearing, three-run double to left-center, upping Central Missouri's lead to 9-1. Heath hit a two-run double to left-center, followed by an
Isaiah Keller RBI infield single to second base and a fielder's choice RBI from Funkhouser, increasing the Mules' advantage to 13-1.
Vance Tobol went 3-for-4 with two runs scored, Keller was 2-for-3 with three RBI, Funkhouser was 2-for-4 with a pair of runs batted in and a triple, Gran Hollister was 2-for-4, Heath was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI, and Johnson was 1-for-4 with a double and three runs driven in, leading Central Missouri in the batter's box in game two.
UCM right-handed starting pitcher
Nathan Hall (1-0) earned the game two victory, surrendering one earned run on three hits with four strikeouts and two walks in five innings of work.
Central Missouri is scheduled to travel to Springfield, Mo., for its first midweek game of the season Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 3 p.m. at Drury.
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