The St. Joseph Mustangs earned their fourth consecutive win Thursday night as they were able to defeat Joplin 4-2 inside Phil Welch Stadium.

St. Joe’s summer college baseball team improves to 7-2 and 5-2 in the MINK League, while Joplin falls to 4-2 with both losses comes to the Mustangs.

St. Joseph broke a scoreless tie in the fourth inning with RBI singles from Trent Hill and Brady Anderson.  Joplin answered back in the sixth with two runs of their own to tie the game.

The game remained tied until the bottom of the seventh inning when Hill drove in Dave Casciola to give the Mustangs the lead back and then Kyle Uhrich knocked in Hill with an RBI single.

Hill, Casciola and Evan McDonald each had two hits each.

John Milan earned the win in relief and he threw 1.2 scoreless innings.  George Brandecker started the game and allowed two runs in 5.1 innings.  He struck out eight and walked three.

Steve D’Amico picked up his first save of the season as he threw a scorless ninth inning with two strickouts.

St. Joseph is off on Friday and they’re back at Phil Welch Stadium Saturday to play a team of Mustangs Alumni.  The first pitch is at 7:00 p.m.