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Texas Tech Snaps Mizzou's Win Streak
5/12/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 12, 2006
LUBBOCK, Texas-- - Missouri had its winning streak snapped at five games as Texas Tech handed the Tigers a 13-1 defeat on Friday night in Lubbock Texas. The Tigers had scored in double figures in their three previous games entering the weekend before the Red Raiders held them to just the one run in Friday's series opener.
The 13 runs allowed by Mizzou ties a season high, matching the 13 runs Nebraska scored on April 9.
Leading 6-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, Texas Tech put seven runs across the plate. The first four batters in the inning reached with hits, including a home run by Jason Seefeld to lead off the inning. The Red Raiders had seven hits in the sixth, including a two-run single by Tyler Reves.
Reves had five RBI in the game, finishing 3-for-5.
Texas Tech scored once in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI single by Reves, then added three more runs in the third inning, as Matt Smith delivered a two-run double and Kyle Martin singled to drive in Smith to make it a four-run game.
Reves drove in his second and third runs of the game with his team-leading 10th home run of the season in the fifth inning.
Mizzou scored its lone run of the game in the top of the second inning as junior Gary Arndt singled to drive in junior Hunter Mense, who had singled earlier in the inning. Mense added a double in the fourth inning, finishing 2-for-4 on Friday night.
Junior Nathan Culp allowed eight runs, the most allowed in his 41 career starts, on 12 hits and struck out five in five innings on the mound. He took the lost, his first defeat since April 14 against Oklahoma, snapping a string of three-straight starts in which he had recorded the victory.
Game two with Texas Tech is Saturday at 2 p.m. Junior Max Scherzer is scheduled to take the mound All MU games can be heard on KTGR 1580-AM in Columbia and at KTGR.com. Live stats will also be available on mutigers.com.
