May 17, 2002
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Missouri head coach Tim Jamieson won his 250th career game as the Tigers downed Northern Iowa 6-3 in non-conference action Friday night at Taylor Stadium/Simmons Field. Prior to the contest, Missouri honored its eight seniors and six of them were in the starting lineup.
MU's Garrett Broshuis pitched eight scoreless innings before allowing three runs in the ninth inning to record his fifth win of the season. Broshuis, a redshirt freshman from Advance, Mo., allowed eight hits and struck out four batters.
The Tigers got on the board right away via a solo home run by Ryan Rallo in the first inning to give MU a 1-0 lead. The home run by Rallo was his second in as many games.
Missouri scored three runs in the third inning despite not getting a hit in the frame. The Tigers used three walks, a hit batter, a fielder's choice, a passed ball and a sacrifice fly to score their three runs and take the 4-0 lead.
The Tigers used back-to-back doubles in the seventh inning to score their fifth run of the game. Rallo hit a two-out double to left field before Cody Ehlers doubled to the right-center field gap to score Rallo and make it 5-0.
After one out in the eighth inning, Missouri used three consecutive singles to make it 6-0. Luke Cassis singled before Kurt Propst singled. Brent Lacy then singled to left field to score Cassis and give MU a 6-0 lead.
Northern Iowa used three hits and two walks to plate its three runs in the ninth inning.
Ehlers retired the lone batter he faced to pick up his first save of the season.
Rallo was the lone Tiger to have two hits in the game.
Missouri, which snapped a seven-game losing streak with the win, is now 24-28 while Northern Iowa saw its eight-game streak fall and is now 28-23-1.
The teams conclude the non-conference series Saturday at 6:30 p.m.