Feb. 10, 2001
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The University of Missouri baseball team recorded its first win of the 2001 campaign as it downed Loyola Marymount 10-7 Saturday at George Page Stadium. The game was an adjustment in the Tigers' schedule as the Cal Poly/J. Carroll Classic was rained out.
Missouri opened with two runs in the first inning after Jayce Tingler and W.T. Hoover walked to open the frame. Both runners advanced on a ground out by Ryan Stegall. Jon Williams drove in Tingler with a ground out to first base before a single to left field by Kevin Henry drove in Hoover.
Stegall homered in the third inning to give MU a 3-0 lead. The home run was Stegall's 21st career round-tripper.
Loyola Marymount took a 4-3 lead after a three-run home run by David Maffei in the bottom half of the third inning.
Tingler drove in three runs in the fourth inning with a bases-clearing double. Henry and Mick Weiss opened the inning with walks before Wes Fewell reached on a bunt single. With two outs, Tingler doubled down the left-field line to give MU a 6-4 lead.
Tingler would have another two-out double in the sixth inning. This shot, down the right-field line, scored Kurt Propst and Luke Cassis. Tingler would come around to score on a single by Hoover to make it 9-4.
Stegall added his second home run of the season with a solo blast over the left-field wall to open the ninth inning.
Tingler, Stegall and Propst led Missouri with a pair of hits. Tingler added a pair of walks.
Matt Hobbs struck out three batters and yielded four hits in his five-inning stint as the Tigers' starter. Hobbs picked up the win with Stegall getting the save.
Missouri meets Pepperdine Sunday in Malibu, Calif. at 3 p.m. (Central).