COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball (11-3) won the final game of its series with UIC (4-7), 13-5, in dominant fashion with four Tigers going yard in the win. It was the first multi-home run game for Mizzou since May 2, 2015 against Ole Miss and also the most runs scored by a Mizzou team since that game as well.
CF Jake Ring (Ingleside, Ill.), 1B Zach Lavy (Auxvasse, Mo.), C Brett Bond (St. Louis, Mo.) and SS Ryan Howard (St. Charles, Mo.) all homered for Mizzou as it scored a season-high 13 runs, its most since an 18-1 win over Ole Miss on May 2, 2015. That backed freshman starter Michael Plassmeyer (St. Louis, Mo.) who earned his first career win on Sunday.
Plassmeyer took the mound for Mizzou, opening the game with an eight-pitch inning. He finished the game throwing 6.0 innings with four strikeouts, no walks and four earned runs to record his first career win.
Bond dominated for Mizzou, hitting 2-for-3 on the game and driving in three RBI and tying his season-high RBI per game. His moment of the game came in the fourth as he launched a two-run blast into the bullpen for his second home run of the year.
UIC struck early with a pair of singles that put two runners on base. Alex Dee stepped up to the plate and drove a run in with a single to left field.
Howard opened the third frame with gapper to right center that landed him on second. Ring then stepped up and drove a bomb over the left field wall to drive in two runs and record his first homer of the season.
Mizzou continued to dominate as Lavy started off the bottom of the fourth with a solo homer over the left wall, tallying his first home run of the year. Trey Harris (Powder Springs, Ga.) then singled to right field to set up Bond’s homer.
UIC threatened in the sixth with a single to left field that allowed a run to cross the plate. The Flames followed up with a double down the left field line by Cody Bohanek to knock in two runs.
Howard answered in the bottom of the seventh with a deep homer to left off the scoreboard, his third of the year and second of the series. That got the ball rolling for Mizzou as it added two more runs in the seventh and four in the eighth off Harris’ second double of the game. A single by Bond to center field drove in Lavy and put a cap on Mizzou’s day on offense.
RHP Liam Carter (Highland Park, Ill.) entered the game for Mizzou, throwing one strikeout with no walks and just two hits against nine batters faced, bringing his ERA down to 1.35 on the season.
Mizzou opens a two game series with Alabama A&M on Tuesday, March 8th beginning at 6 p.m.
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