No. 23 @MizzouBaseball Edged by No. 9 Florida, 2-1

Saturday, April 1

Columbia, Mo.

2:00 PM

University of Missouri

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Florida

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Florida

Mizzou

4/1/2017 5:21:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

UF’s Brady Singer keeps Mizzou’s offense quiet; Sikkema brilliant in relief

COLUMBIA, Mo. – No. 23 Mizzou Baseball dropped game two of its three-game series against No. 9 Florida, 2-1, Saturday afternoon at Taylor Stadium. Mizzou got on the board first in the second inning on a one-out, RBI double by Nelson Mompierre (Miami, Fla.), but Florida freshman RHP settled in from there to earn his fifth win of the season. Singer tossed a complete game and allowed just three hits and one earned run. Mizzou falls to 21-6 and 4-4 in SEC play while Florida goes to 19-9 and 4-4 in SEC play.

Mizzou sophomore LFP Michael Plassmeyer (St. Louis, Mo.) took the loss after allowing two earned runs over 3.1 innings, scattering six hits with four strikeouts and no walks. Freshman LHP T.J. Sikkema (DeWitt, Iowa) relived Plassmeyer and tossed the final 5.2 innings, a career-long, and allowed just three base runners (two hits and a walk) to give Mizzou a chance.

Plassmeyer was effective in the first inning, striking out the first two batters he faced before getting JJ Scwarz to bounce out to second after a nine-pitch at-bat to end the frame. Mizzou then got a two-out walk from Kameron Misner (Poplar Bluff, Mo.) in the first and he took second on a throwing error, but was stranded there.

Florida picked up a pair of hits in the second and put runners on the corners with one down. But Plassmeyer got a 6-4-3 double play to escape the jam. Mizzou carried the momentum from that double play into the second as Nelson Mompierre (Miami, Fla.) ripped a one-out double the other way into left center to score Brian Sharp (Liberty, Mo.) and give Mizzou a 1-0 lead.

Florida tallied a pair of runs in the fourth inning, one on a solo homer to lead off the frame by Johnathan India. A seeing-eye single by Christian Hicks off the glove of Robbie Glendinning (Scarborough, Australia) then gave Florida a 2-1 lead.

Singer and Sikkema settled in from there and the two teams struggled to get anything going offensively off of two of the best pitchers in the SEC. Mizzou got a runner to third in the fifth inning and that was the best chance to score, but Trey Harris (Powder Springs, Fla.) flew out to strand the tying run.

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Potent Quotables
Head Coach Steve Bieser
Opening statement…
"I thought we started really well and put pressure on him early. He's a guy who typically doesn't walk a lot of guys, but we were able to put some pressure on him that way. We were able to scratch a run across and then I through the middle we didn't do as good a job offensively as we would have liked. We would have liked to put more pressure on him. I thought we hit a few balls today really hard that just were on the wrong day. Wind was pushing in and we hit it right into the teeth of the wind and it knocked three balls down. They would be homers tomorrow with the different wind we will have."

Game Notes:

Mizzou now trails the all-time series with Florida, 4-16.
Mizzou falls to 7-1 on Saturdays and 2-1 on SEC Saturdays.
Mizzou is now 10-4 in three-game series this season.
Mizzou has now lost four straight games, all by one run after winning its first seven one-run games this season.
Brian Sharp's second-inning walk extended his reached base streak to a season-long 17 games, the longest streak by a Tiger this season.
Kameron Misner stole his team-leading 13^th base in the third inning. That is the second-most in the SEC, just one off the SEC lead.
Connor Brumfield singled in the eighth inning and has now reached base safely in 15 straight games.