The St. Joseph Mustangs captured their fourth MINK League championship in five seasons as they defeated Nevada 10-7 Friday in the league title game inside Phil Welch Stadium.

St. Joe’s summer college advances to the National Baseball Congress (NBC) World Series in Wichita, Kansas for the fifth time in their seven years of existance.

The Mustangs gave up an unearned run in the first inning, but bounced back with three runs in the third and four more in the fourth inning to take a 7-1 lead.

It didn’t last long as the Griffons rallied quickly with two runs in the fifth inning and they tied the game with four in the sixth.

St. Joseph took the lead for good in the seventh inning as they scored an unearned run to take the lead and Jerry Houston and Jackson Schnurbusch had consecutive RBI doubles to extend the lead to 10-7.

Austin Aspegren earned the win in relief for the Mustangs as he threw 1.1 scoreless innings.  Dixon Marble started the game and allowed six earned runs and 11 hits in 5.1 innings of work.

Houston, Schnurbusch and Ramsay Scott all had two hits each to lead St. Joe’s 11-hit attack, while Scott and Orencio Fisher each had two RBI.

The Mustangs are now 35-15 this season and will begin play in Wichita next Friday or Saturday as the schedule will be released early next week for the championship bracket of the NBC World Series.