For the second straight season the St. Joseph Mustangs lost to Santa Barbara (CA) in the second round of the NBC World series in Wichita.  St. Joe’s summer college baseball team fell to the Foresters 10-3 on Sunday as they drop to 1-1 at the tournament and into the consolation bracket.

The Mustangs, who are now 36-16 overall this season, fell behind early 3-1 after three innings but rallied and tied the game 3-3 in the top of the sixth inning.

That’s when things fell apart for St. Joe.

Santa Barbara scored three unearned run to take a 6-3 lead as Mustangs’ shortstop Jackson Schnurbusch had three errors in the inning.

The Foresters added two more unearned runs in the seventh and then got a two-run home run in the eighth to finish off the scoring.

St. Joseph and Santa Barbara had 11 hits each but the Mustangs committed five errors on the night and struck out 15 times at the plate.  They also left 13 runners on the base.

Dixon Marble suffered the loss as he allowed six runs (two earned runs) and seven hits in 5.1 innings of work.

Josh Cassidy led the Mustangs offense as he finished 3-for-5 with two doubles and two runs scored.  Francisco Alvarez and Orencio Fisher added two hits each.

St. Joseph will try and stave off elimination Monday as they play Lake Erie (MI) at 5:00 p.m. inside Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.  The game will be broadcast on 680 KFEQ and here on StJosephPost.com.