The St. Joseph Mustangs had their seven-game win streak snapped Sunday night as they fell at home to Chillicothe, 2-1.

St. Joe’s summer college baseball team drops to 21-8 this season and 17-8 in the MINK League.  Despite the loss, they still lead the North Division by five games over Chillicothe.

St. Joseph jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the second inning as Shane Segovia led off with a triple and Patrick Burkhart hit a sacrafice fly to right field.

The scored remained 1-0 until the fifth when Chillicothe took its first lead of the game as Mustangs’ starter Bubba Blau hit the leadoff batter Isaac Smith and then Taylor Johnson and Tyler Duplantis each had RBI base hits to make it 2-1.

St. Joe had at least one base runner in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings, but they only managed five hits in the game and never pushed a run across.

segovia led the Mustangs as he went 2-for-4.  Burkhart, Kris Koerper and Jordan Guida added had one hit each.

Blau (1-1) took the loss as he lasted just 4.2 innings and allowed two runs and four hits.  He also walked four batters in the game.

Carson Smith and Phillip Wilson came on in relief for St. Joseph and allowed one hit and didn’t give up a run in 4.1 innings of work.

The Mustangs are back in action Monday as they travel to Joplin for a 7:00 p.m. first pitch.