After opening the season with five consecutive wins, the St. Joseph Mustangs have dropped back-to-back game as they lost Sunday at Nevada, 7-4.

Both losses for St. Joe’s summer college baseball team came to the Griffons, who won at Phil Welch Stadium Saturday 8-1.

Nevada scored in the first inning for the second straight game against the Mustangs as Brandon Huske committed an error with two outs that allowed two runs to score.

The Griffons built a 6-1 after three innings as they scored two runs in each of the first three innings.  The only run for St. Joseph in that stretch came in the third when Francisco Alvarez drove in Matthew Johnson with double.

The Mustangs then got a two-out, two-run home run from Mike Sherburne to pull within 6-3, but that was as close as St. Joe would get.

Missouri’s Brandon Baker suffered the loss for the Mustangs as the allowed six runs and eight hits in six innings of work.  Only three of the runs were earned as St. Joseph committed a season-high five errors.

Alvarez and Sherburne led with offense with two hits each, while Nate Winfrey also had one RBI.

The Mustangs are now 5-2 this season and 1-2 in MINK League play and they’re off on Monday before traveling to Chillicothe Tuesday for their first meeting with the Mudcats.