May 13, 2005

Box Score

COLUMBIA, Mo.-- - Mizzou recorded its seventh shutout of the season with an 8-0 win over Kansas on Friday night at Taylor Stadium. With the victory, Mizzou has clinched the Border Showdown series, taking a 21.0 to 14.5 lead in the year-long series

Sophomore Max Scherzer allowed just two hits in seven scoreless innings of work, striking out 10. It was the fourth time this season in which he has recorded at least 10 strikeouts in a game.

Scherzer has 117 strikeouts on the season and moves into third place in MU record books for strikeouts in a season and is just 11 away from breaking the record of 127 set by John Dettmer in 1991.

After four scoreless innings, the Tigers broke got on the board with a four-run bottom of the fifth inning. Three of the four runs were unearned as the Jayhawks committed two errors in the inning.

Sophomore Gary Arndt had an RBI single in the fifth inning and added a second RBI single in the bottom of the sixth inning, to increase the lead to 5-0.

Missouri (33-14, 13-9 Big 12) added three more runs in the eighth inning as junior Zane Taylor connected on a two-run pinch hit single and then scored on a wild pitch.

Arndt was 3-for-4 with the two RBI and two runs scored. Sophomore Hunter Mense had three hits on the day and junior Derek Chambers added a 2-for-3 game for the Tigers.

. MU has won the Border Showdown in two of the three years of the all-sports competition between the two schools.

Game two of this weekend's series will get underway at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Prior to Saturday's game, MU's senior class will be honored on the field.