WEDNESDAY'S SCORES
Missouri 8,
@SIUE 3
MISSOURI 8, SIUE 3
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - SIUE baseball dropped an 8-3 decision to Mizzou in front of a crowd of more than 300 Wednesday at Simmons Baseball Complex.
The Cougars fell to 22-18 overall and have lost four in a row. Mizzou snapped a three-game losing streak and improved to 24-16.
The Tigers broke a scoreless tie with a four-run fourth inning and never trailed in the game. Mizzou took advantage of a walk, a hit batter and an error in the inning to plate the four runs.
Missouri extended the lead to 7-0 with a run in the fifth and two in the sixth before the Cougars got on the board in the bottom of the sixth. Avery Owusu-Asiedu led off the inning with a triple before Kyle Ratliff drove him in with a ball on the infield. Ratliff reached on an error. In the seventh inning Josh Ohl drove a triple down the right field line and then scored on a sacrifice fly by Logan Smith to make it 7-2.
Mizzou made it 8-2 with a run in the eighth. Brennan Orf drove in SIUE's third run with a ninth-inning single.
Orf finished 2-3 with a double, a single a walk and a hit-by-pitch. Missouri outhit SIUE 8-7 for the game.
SIUE used eight pitchers in the game. Teague Conrad started and threw two scoreless innings. He struck out four.
Zeus Ponder, Gunner Millsap and Hayden Cooper each added a scoreless inning.