The St. Joseph Mustangs won their second consecutive game Friday night and they moved to 3-0 against Clarinda with a 4-2 win against the A’s.
St. Joe’s summer college baseball team improves to 20-6 this season and 17-6 in the MINK League.
The Mustangs jumped out to a 4-0 lead as they scored single runs in the third and fourth innings, and then added two more in the fifth.
St. Joseph only had three hits in the game, but they took advantage of six walks and drove in two runs with two sacrifice flys.
Jackson Schnurbusch had two of the Mustangs’ hits and he drove in one run, while Orencio Fisher, Jacob Richardson and Francisco Alvarez had one RBI each.
Trent Kinney earned the win for St. Joe as he allowed one earned run and four hits in 5.1 innings of work. Four Mustang relievers shut down Clarinda the rest of the way as Ross Juliana, Humberto Medina, Jake Harper and Steve D’Amico combined to go 3.2 innings and they allowed no runs and only two hits.
The Mustangs play a non-league game at Phil Welch Stadium Saturday night as they host the Midwest A’s at 7:00 p.m.