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The St. Joseph Mustangs’ season came to an end Wednesday night as they lost to the Haysville (KS) Aviators 4-3 in an elimination game at the NBC World Series in Wichita, Kansas.

St. Joe’s summer college baseball team finishes 37-17 and they were seventh at the NBC World Series.

The Mustangs jumped out to a 3-0 lead with single runs in each of the first three innings.  They held a lead the entire game and led 3-2 in the ninth inning when Haysville rallied with two runs in the bottom of the ninth for a walk-off win.

The Aviators got a one-out single from Cody Maack to tie the game in the ninth inning and then, with the bases loaded, Dan Holst hit a ground ball to second and Jerry Houston’s throw home was in the dirt and Haysville scored the winning run.

Austin Aspegren suffered the loss for St. Joseph as he gave up one hit and two unearned runs.  He walked two and Mustangs’ pitchers walked a total of nine batters in the game.

Trent Kinney started and allowed two runs on four hits in five innings of work.

Orencio Fisher led the Mustangs’ nine-hit attack as he finished 4-for-5 with one run and one RBI.  Francisco Alvarez added two hits, while Jacob Richardson and Ramsey Scott had one RBI each.

Haysville improves to 32-15 and they advance to the Super Six at the NBC World Series.