The St. Joseph Mustangs stayed unbeaten this season with a walk-off 7-6 win over the Chillicothe Mudcats Saturday night inside Phil Welch Stadium.

St. Joe’s collegiate summer baseball team improves to 3-0 this season and they’re 2-0 in the MINK League.

The Mustangs jumped out to a 4-1 lead Saturday as Jackson Dierenfeldt and Karl Koerper each hit a home run in the first inning. St. Joseph added one run in the second and then took a 6-2 lead with another run in the sixth inning.

Chillicothe rallied with two runs in the seventh and two more in the eighth inning to tie the game at 6. It stayed that way until the bottom of the ninth inning when pinch hitter Colten Kenagy walked with two outs, Brady Holden hit an inning single to keep the inning alive and that brought Jackson Dierenfeldt to the plate. The Mustangs’ shortstop hit a bouncing ball up the middle that hit the lip of the grass and bounced over Mudcats’ second baseman Marcus Gonzalez for an RBI single to win it for St. Joe.

Dierenfeldt finished 3-for-5 with two runs and two RBI, while Holden had three hits and Derek Hussey added two hits and one run batted in.

Jake Purl earn the win in relief as he face five Chillicothe batters and struck out all five. Cam Bednar started but earned a no-decision as he allowed just one earned run and eight hits in six innings. Bednar struck out eight and walked one.

The Mustangs hit the road for the first time this season as they play at Nevada Sunday at 7:00 p.m.