The St. Joseph Mustangs returned to Phil Welch Stadium Thursday night but lost to Chillicothe in 11 innings, 7-6.
St. Joe’s summer college baseball team has now lost consecutive games for the first time this season and they’ve dropped three of their last four games.
Chillicothe, who beat St. Joseph Wednesday 8-4, jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the fifth inning before the Mustangs began their rally.
St. Joe scored a single run in the fifth inning and then Kris Koerper hit a 3-run home run in the sixth to pull the Mustangs within one.
The Mudcats added a run in the seventh inning, but St. Joseph answered right back with a Jordan Guida sacrifice fly in the seventh and a Spiker Helms RBI double in the eighth to tie the score 6-6.
The game remain tied until the 11th inning when Chillicothe got a two-out RBI single from Matt Creel.
Doug Shields suffered the loss in relief as he went three innings and allowed four hits and one run. Kyle Hassna started the game but lasted just five innings and gave up seven hits and five runs.
Koerper led the way as he finished 2-for-4 with that three-run home run and two runs scored. Cameron Bentley, Spiker Helms, T.J. Dailey and Jeff Roy all added two hits each as the Mustangs had 13 total hits.
St. Joseph falls to 20-6 overall and 16-6 in the MINK League. They are back inside Phil Welch Stadium Friday night as they entertain Ozark at 7:00 p.m.