@MizzouBaseball’s Big Fifth Inning Clinches Series Sweep of La Salle

Saturday, March 10

Columbia, Mo.

4:30 p.m.

University of Missouri

13-3

La Salle

4-10

La Salle

Mizzou

@MizzouBaseball’s Big Fifth Inning Clinches Series Sweep of La Salle

3/10/2018 7:47:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

Mizzou scored five runs in the fifth in Saturday night’s shut out

COLUMBIA, Mo. – A five-run inning helped the Mizzou Baseball extend its winning streak to eight games as Mizzou stomped La Salle, 7-0, Saturday night in Taylor Stadium. Five walks and singles from senior C Brett Bond (St. Louis, Mo.), sophomore 1B Kameron Misner (Poplar Bluff, Mo.) and freshman 2B Mark Vierling (St. Louis, Mo.) contributed to the five runs scored in the fifth inning. Starting pitcher, senior RHP Andy Toelken (Green Cove Spring, Fla.) struck out a season-high six batters during his 6.0 innings pitched, touting a no-hitter until the fifth inning. Winning pitcher Toelken moves to 2-0.

Mizzou's pitchers had an impressive weekend, striking out at least 10 batters as well as no-hitting La Salle until the fifth inning in all three games of the series. The Tigers have now won eight straight games and move to 13-3 on the season. La Salle drops to 4-10 on the year.

TURNING POINT

Freshman 2B Mark Vierling (St. Louis, Mo.) singled through the left side to begin the fifth inning. On a groundout by sophomore SS Chris Cornelius (St. Louis, Mo.), Vierling advanced to second. Senior RF Trey Harris (Powder Springs, Ga.) walked and then sophomore 1B Kameron Misner (Poplar Bluff, Mo.) singled, driving in Vierling and advancing Harris to second. La Salle proceeded to walk two consecutive batters, loading the bases and walking in a run. Next, Senior C Brett Bond (St. Louis, Mo.) singled up the middle, adding two RBIs. The final run of the inning came from a bases-loaded walk as well.

QUOTING MIZZOU

Head Coach Steve Bieser:
"It's always good to see your starter get deep in the game. Watching Plassmeyer go out and run through their lineup game one, that was good to see that he's at that point this early in the season. Then, to see Andy come out, I thought Andy threw the ball really well. We definitely wanted to see some arms today that we wanted to get in and we have a couple of guys we wanted to make sure got work, but we just couldn't get to them. That's a good problem to have."

TOP TIGERS

Senior RHP Andy Toelken (Green Cove Spring, Fla.) pitched 6.0 innings, striking out six and allowing only two hits and no runs. His six strikeouts today are a season-high.
Sophomore 1B Kameron Misner (Poplar Bluff, Mo.) posted his sixth multi-hit game of the season. He had two hits, a double down the left field line in the first inning and an RBI single in the fifth.
Senior C Brett Bond (St. Louis, Mo.) was 2-for-2 at the plate, singling twice. He also added two RBIs. This was the sixth time this season he recorded a multiple hit game as well as the second time he posted a multiple RBI game.
Junior LF Zach Hanna (Shawnee, Kan.) tallied two hits in his two at-bats as well as a RBI. That was his third multi-hit game this season.

NOTES

Mizzou now leads the all-time series with La Salle, 3-0.
Mizzou improves to 5-1 on Saturdays.
Mizzou pushed its winning streak to eight games as it is a perfect 8-0 on the current homestand.
Mizzou is now 3-1 in doubleheaders this season. Mizzou turned in its first doubleheader sweep since opening weekend last year vs. Eastern Michigan.
Mizzou improves to 8-1 in three-games series this season, winning every weekend set.
Senior OF Trey Harris hit in the leadoff spot for the first time in his career. He extended his hitting streak to eight games with a first inning single, matching the longest streak by a Tiger this season (Brian Sharp also had an eight-game streak).
Mizzou took a no-hitter into the fifth inning of every game of the three-game weekend series.
RHP Ryan Rickett made his Mizzou debut in the top of the ninth inning.
Mizzou tallied its fourth shutout of the season Saturday.

UP NEXT

Mizzou takes on Wichita State this Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. in Taylor Stadium. For all the latest on Mizzou Baseball, stay tuned to MUTigers.com and follow the team on Twitter (@MizzouBaseball) and like the team on Facebook (Mizzou Baseball) and Instagram (missouri_baseball).