The St. Joseph Mustangs wrapped up their 11-game home stand with a convincing win over Joplin Saturday night at Phil Welch Stadium, 18-1.

St. Joe’s summer college baseball team went 10-1 during its home stand as they improve to 31-8 overall and 25-8 in the MINK League.

Joplin scored their only run in the top of the first inning, but the Mustangs answered with four runs in the bottom of the first and three more in the second to take command of the game.

St. Joseph scored single runs in the third and fourth innings, and then put four runs in the sixth inning and five in the eighth.

Nine different Mustangs drove in a run on the night and six Mustangs had multi-RBI games.

Spiker Helms went 4-for-4 with three runs scored and two RBI.  Brent Seifert added three hits and he drove in two runs, while Ben Baker, Brock Chaffin and Mark Robinette had two RBI each.  Jordan Guida drove in a team-high four runs Saturday.

Kyle Jackson (4-1) earned the win as he went five innings and allowed just one run on four hits.  He struck out three and walked four.  Cody Lane worked the last four innings and didn’t allowed a hit or a run.

St. Joe is on the road Sunday as they travel to Sedalia for a 6:00 p.m. first pitch.  You can hear the game on ESPN 1550.