The St. Joseph Mustangs stayed unbeaten at the NBC World Series in Wichita Tuesday night as they rallied past El Dorado (KS), 4-3.
St. Joe’s summer college baseball team is now 4-0 at the NBC and they play in the winner’s bracket championship game Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. against defending champion Santa Barbara (CA).
The Mustangs jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the third inning as Kyle Simpson hit a sacrifice fly and Mark Robinette had a two-out RBI double.
El Dorado got an unearned run back in the bottom half of the third when shortstop Sam Tolleson committed a throwing error.
The game stayed that way until the seventh when Tolleson let a ground ball go through his legs with two outs and El Dorado scored two on the play and led 3-2 after seven inning.
St. Joe came right back in the top of the eighth as Simpson and Robinette led off the inning with singles.
Simpson then scored to tie the game on an error by El Dorado 2B Arturo Corona and Robinette scored when T.J. Dailey beat out a potential double play.
Aaron Baker then finished what he started as he threw a complete game six-hitter and he retired the last seven batters he faced. Baker improves to 7-2 as he didn’t allow an earned run an struck out five.
Robinette had three hits while Saulyer Saxon, Tanner Lubach and Pat Burkhart had two hits each.
The Mustangs game against Santa Barbara will air on ESPN 1550 and here on StJosephPost.com. Pregame will begin at 7:15 p.m.