By MATT PIKE
After an off day on Monday, the St. Joseph Mustangs were back in action Tuesday on the road in Sedalia in the final week of the MINK league regular season, beating the Bombers 5-1 on Tuesday evening.
The Mustangs gave starting pitcher Cade Perkins the lead in the second inning of the game as Easton Phillipe scored an unearned run as Savannah alum Truman Bodenhausen reached first on an error by second baseman Ryan Retone. Bishop LeBlond alum Frank Gall extended the lead with an RBI single, driving in Lafayette alum Jayden Little to give St. Joseph a 2-0 lead.
Sedalia cut the lead to one run in the third inning, Will Muench scoring after Caden Paxton reached on an error by Benton alum Chris Coy. In the fourth inning though, the Mustangs scored two more runs as Lafayette alum Brayden Luikart hit a sacrifice fly to bring home Bodenhausen, before Gall also scored on a sacrifice fly by Dom Felix to put St. Joseph up 4-1 at the end of four innings.
The Mustangs held that 4-1 lead until the sixth inning when they scored their final run of the game on a wild pitch, Bodenhausen scoring the run on the pitch from Dante Johnson.
Perkins earned the win throwing six innings and giving up one run on four hits while striking out five and walking one. At the plate, Gall was 2-for-5 with a stolen base and an RBI. Luikart was 2-for-4 with a stolen base and an RBI, while Bodenhausen was 0-for-2 with two walks, two stolen bases and two runs scored.
The Mustangs are now 31-6 on the season and 25-5 in the MINK league. They travel to Nevada on Wednesday for a doubleheader, one game being a makeup game that was originally scheduled for June 29th. First pitch from Nevada is at 5pm, with game two at 7pm.
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