The St. Joseph Mustangs were able to stave off elimination Monday night at the NBC World Series in Wichita as they beat Lake Erie (MI) 10-8.

St. Joe’s summer college baseball team improves to 37-16 and 2-1 at the NBC.  They’re now one of eight teams remaining in the national tournament and the Mustangs will play Haysville (KS) in another elimination game Wednesday night in Wichita at a time to be announced.

St. Joseph raced out to an 8-0 lead Monday night as they scored single runs in the first two innings and broke the game open with a six-run third inning.

Lake Erie battled their way back with two runs in the fifth, two more in the sixth and they put the tying runs on base in eighth as they scored four runs to pull within two.

Dalton Gulick got the final out of the eighth inning for the Mustangs and Trent Hill earned his third save with a scoreless ninth.

Mile Gully (5-1) picked up the win as he retired the first 12 batters he faced.  Gully have up four runs and four hits as he was taken out of the game after 5.2 innings of work.

Ramsey Scott led St. Joe’s 11-hit attack as he finished 4-for-5 with three RBI.  Trent HIll went 2-for-4 with three runs batted in, while Orencio Fisher and Josh Cassidy added two hits each.

The Mustangs will play the Haysville Aviators at either 5:00 p.m. or 10:00 p.m. Wednesday at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.  The winner will advance to the Super Six at the NBC World Series.  The game will be broadcast on either ESPN 1550 or 680 KFEQ depending on the game time.