The St. Joseph Mustangs won a pitchers dual Thursday night at Phil Welch Stadium, defeating the Clarinda A’s 4-2.

Kyle Gehrs earned the win for St. Joe’s summer college baseball team as he went 7.2 innings and allowed one earned run and three hits.  He struck out 10 batters and walked six.

Brett Ash walked two in the ninth but he earned his fifth save of the summer in five chances.

The Mustangs offense was able to generate only five hits Thursday, but they scored three of their four runs in the opening inning to earn the win.

In the first, Mike Sherburn hit an RBI triple, scored on a wild pitch and Zac Johnson had a single with two outs to score Joe Koerper.

St. Joseph improves to 8-3 on the season and they’re 3-3 in the MINK League.  The Mustangs play an exhibition game Friday night at Phil Welch as they play a team of former Mustang players in the first St. Joseph Mustangs Alumni game.  First pitch is at 7:00 p.m.