WARRENSBURG, Mo. – The brooms were out at Crane Stadium/Tompkins Field on Sunday, Feb. 8, as the second-ranked Central Missouri Mules Baseball team completed a four-game series sweep of the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys with a 10-4 victory.
The Mules (6-1) are scheduled to travel to Springfield, Mo., for a midweek game against the Drury Panthers (3-0) on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 3 p.m. at Mark Worley Field at Meador Park.
UCM did the bulk of its scoring in the bottom of the second inning, plating eight runs to race out to an 8-0 lead.
Jackson Bryant crossed home plate on a bases-loaded walk for the opening run of the inning before
Grant Hollister belted a two-run double to right-center to drive in
Austin Buie and
Collin Dobson, upping the Central Missouri advantage to 3-0.
Evan Vienhage kept the scoring going with an RBI double to left field, scoring
Cole Funkhouser, before Hollister crossed home plate on an Arkansas Tech wild pitch. Bryant delivered the exclamation point in the inning, crushing a base-clearing, three-run triple to right field, making it 8-0, Mules.
After the Wonder Boys (1-6) scored runs in the third and fifth innings to cut the UCM lead to 8-2, the Mules responded with two runs in the bottom of the fifth, building their lead to 10-2. Dobson scored on an error for the first run of the inning prior to Hollister hitting an RBI single to centerfield, driving in Buie for run number two.
Hollister, Funkhouser, and Bryant all had two hits in the game, with Hollister and Bryant also tallying three runs batted in, leading UCM offensively.
Central Missouri relief pitcher
Liam Bryan (1-0) earned the win on the mound after surrendering one unearned run on three hits with two strikeouts and one walk in two innings of work.
Luke Dickson (0-1) was the losing pitcher for Arkansas Tech, giving up seven earned runs on three hits with one strikeout and five walks in 1 2/3 innings.
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