The St. Joseph Mustangs won the 2014 MINK League Championship Friday night at Phil Welch Stadium as they defeated Sedalia 4-1 in game three of the MINK Championship series.

St. Joe’s summer college baseball team wins the series two games to one after losing the opener at Sedalia Wednesday.  It’s the third MINK Leauge title in four years for the Mustangs and they’ve qualified for the championship bracket of the NBC World Series in Wichita for the fourth time in their six-year history.

St. Joseph broke a scoreless tie Friday night in the third inning with a two-out RBI infield single by Lucas Powers, but Sedalia came back to tie the game with a run of their own in the fourth inning.

The Mustangs then scored single runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to extend their lead.  St. Joe scored on a balk in the fifth, Tanner Lubach drove in a run as he grounded into a fielders choice in the sixth inning and Kyle Richards had a sacrifice fly in the seventh.

That was more than enough for starting pitcher Brandon Baker.  The sophomore-to-be at Missouri went 7.2 innings and he allowed just one run on five hits.  Baker struck out two and walked two as he improves to 5-3 this summer.

Powers, Joe Koerper and Zac Johnson had two hits each in the game.

The Mustangs are now off for a week as the first week of the NBC World Series is underway, but St. Joseph is off until the championship bracket begins next Friday.  Sedalia has also qualified by winning the South Division but they have to turn around and play Saturday night at 10:00 p.m. inside Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.

The Mustangs are now 40-16 this season and won’t know who or when they play at the NBC World Series until later in the week.