The St. Joseph Mustangs cruised to two easy victories Friday night at Phil Welch Stadium as they swept a doubleheader against Branson, 18-6 & 3-0.

St. Joe’s summer college baseball team improves to 17-6 this season and they’re 10-6 in MINK League play.

The story of the night played out in game two as Missouri Western graduate Jake Jones made his first start of the season for the Mustangs and he threw a seven inning no-hitter.  Jones allowed just one walk and he struck out three as he faced just one over the minimum.  Both games were seven inning games because of the doubleheader.

St. Joseph had just five hits in the nightcap but scored single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings.  Ryan Abernathy drove in two runs and Kyle Richards had an RBI single.

In game one, the Mustangs offense finally got going as they had been averaging only 4.5 runs per game but they exploded for 18 on Friday night.

St. Joe trailed 2-0 after one inning and the game was tied 3-3 after four.  That’s when the Mustangs came alive.

They scored eight runs in the fifth inning, one in the sixth and six more in the top of the seventh as they were the visiting team in game one.

Mike Sherburne, Nick Sebastian and Zac Johnson each drove in three runs, while Joe Koerper added three hits and three runs scored.

St. Joe had 13 total hits in the game but got help from six Branson errors.

Redmond Floyd picked up the win in relief as he just 1.2 innings, but he didn’t allowed a hit or run and he struck out three.

The Mustangs wrap up their four-game homestand Saturday night as they host Sedalia.  The first pitch is at 7:00 p.m. and will be broadcast on 680 KFEQ & here on StJosephPost.com.