ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Lindenwood (13-15, 7-7) might have been the first team since Feb. 2 to score more than a run on Missouri Western baseball (11-10, 9-5) starter Anthony Castaneda, but the senior pitcher and his team still evened the series with the Lions in a 5-2 victory Saturday afternoon.

Castaneda tied the MWSU single-game strikeout record – for the second time this season – with a complete game 14-K performance.

NOTABLES

• Castaneda shut the Lions out for the first four innings before they scratched across two in the bottom of the fifth
• The senior recorded 14 strikeouts for the second time this season, matching his season opening performance at Oklahoma Baptist. He now has four games with 12 or more strikeouts in seven starts
• Andrew Curry led off the fourth with a single; stole second then got to third on a wild pitch before scoring when Zach Pych reached on an error
• Lindenwood was charged with eight errors in the game
• After Lindenwood took a 2-1 lead in the fifth, the Griffons regained the lead with three in the sixth
• Curry scored the first in the sixth on a wild pitch
• Nolan Monthei drove in the other two with a single up the middle
• The Griffons took advantage of another Lindenwood error that allowed Monthei to score an insurance run in the ninth
• Castaneda improved to 6-0 on the season, allowing just seven hits through nine innings. He struck out 14 and walked two
• Monthei was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored

UP NEXT

• The rubber match comes Sunday at a re-scheduled time of 11 a.m. in St. Charles.

— MWSU Athletics —