Missouri State University
25-24, 8-11
Bradley
18-27, 9-10
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Runs R | Hits H | Errors E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri State | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 1 |
| Bradley | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
Baseball Bears Take Wild Game One in Peoria
May 19, 2022 | Baseball
PEORIA, Ill. – Dakota Kotowski's RBI single in the top of the ninth inning proved to be the game-winner in a wild 7-6 Missouri State victory over Bradley Thursday evening at Dozer Park.
Spencer Nivens homered twice, including MSU's third leadoff bomb of the season while becoming the sixth Bear to have a multi-homer game on the year, and added a sac fly in the fifth, Hayden Moore drove in a pair of runs, and Eric Loomis (3-1) posted career highs of four innings and seven strikeouts in relief.
Missouri State (25-24, 8-11 Missouri Valley Conference) scored in six of its nine at bats and the bullpen held Bradley (18-27, 9-10) to one run over the final five frames.
Bradley led 4-2 after three innings with the two Nivens bombs accounting for MSU's offense to that point, and a BU homer in the fourth made it 5-2 before the Bears tallied two in the fifth on a Will Duff leadoff walk, Moore RBI triple and Nivens sac fly.
Moore hit a sac fly in the sixth to briefly tie it at 5-5, but Bradley led off the bottom of the inning with a solo homer to lead 6-5. Moore was in the middle of things again the next inning, drawing a leadoff walk and scoring the tying run after a wild pitch and two fly outs.
Then in the ninth, Mason Greer led off with his 18th double of the season and scored on Kotowski's one-out single to left center. Jake McMahill plunked Bradley's leadoff man in the bottom half before retiring the next three batters for his fourth save.
The series continues Friday at 1 p.m.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Loomis, Eric (3-1)
L: Catton, Taylor (3-4)
S: McMahill, Jake (4)
Batting:
2B: Greer, Mason 1
3B: Moore, Hayden 1
HR: Nivens, Spencer 2
RBI: Nivens, Spencer 3 ; Baldwin, Drake 1 ; Kotowski, Dakota 1 ; Moore, Hayden 2
SF: Nivens, Spencer 1 ; Baldwin, Drake 1 ; Moore, Hayden 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Nivens, Spencer 2 ; Greer, Mason 1 ; Kotowski, Dakota 1 ; Duff, Will 1 ; Moore, Hayden 2
SB: Kotowski, Dakota 1
Batting:
2B: Vogel, Ryan 1 ; Rice, Keaton 1 ; Manthey, Connor 1
HR: Delgado, Logan 1 ; Valk, Carl 1
RBI: Husmann, Carson 1 ; Hansen, Peter 1 ; Chatterton, Jackson 1 ; Delgado, Logan 1 ; Valk, Carl 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Vogel, Ryan 2 ; Rice, Keaton 1 ; Husmann, Carson 1 ; Delgado, Logan 1 ; Valk, Carl 1
SB: Vogel, Ryan 1
HBP: Vogel, Ryan 2 ; Manthey, Connor 1
