The St. Joseph Mustangs suffered a doubleheader sweep Thursday to Jefferson City inside Phil Welch Stadium. St. Joe’s collegiate summer baseball team got beat in the first game 16-5 as it was the conclusion of a suspended game from June 9th 16-5 and they lost the night cap 9-3.

The Mustangs are now 15-13 overall this season and 13-12 in the MINK League. St. Joseph has now lost six of its last seven games.

In game one, they resumed the game in the fifth inning with the score tied 5-5, but it was all Jefferson City Thursday. The Renegades scored four quickly in the fifth and added three more in the seventh before run-ruling the Mustangs with four runs in the eighth inning.

Gaylon Viney made his debut in a St. Joe uniform and he suffered the loss. He have up four runs and six hits in three innings of work.

Alex Phillips hit two home runs for the Mustangs and he drove in all five runs.

In game two, Jeff City scored two runs in the first inning and then blew a 2-1 game open with five in the fourth and two more runs in the sixth inning.

St. Joseph’s Drake Kanallakan (3-1) suffered his first loss of the season as he gave up seven runs and 13 hits in 3.1 innings.

The Mustangs had just six hits as Malik Williams and Terrence Spurlin had two hits each. Williams drove in all three runs.

St. Joseph is on the road Friday as they play at Sedalia.  The first pitch is at 7:00 p.m. inside Liberty Park Stadium.