The St. Joseph Mustangs were able to force a deciding game three of the MINK League Championship Series with a 4-1 win over Ozark Sunday inside Phil Welch Stadium.

After blowing a 5-1 lead in the ninth inning Saturday and losing game one to the Generals in 11 innings 6-5, St. Joe’s collegiate summer baseball team bounced back to tie the series 1-1 and set up a winner take all game three Monday at 7:00 p.m. inside Phil Welch Stadium.

The Mustangs, who are now 36-14, opened the scoring in the fourth inning with two runs before Ozark cut the lead in half with one of their own in top of the sixth. St. Joseph answered back in the bottom of the sixth inning as they scored two unearned runs on an error by second baseman Jordan Martin with two outs and that was more than enough for Mustangs starter Jake Van Vacter.

Van Vacter threw his first complete game of the season as he allowed just one run on five hits and he struck out six. Van Vacter threw 123 pitches in his final game and he improves to 5-3 this season.

Jacob Richardson had two hits for St. Joe and Josh Williams added an RBI single and two runs scored.

The final game of the best-of-three MINK League Championship Series between the Mustangs and Generals will begin at 7:00 p.m. Monday and the game will be broadcast on ESPN 1550.