The St. Joseph Mustangs scored two runs in the bottom of the 10th inning Sunday night as they rallied past Sedalia, 7-6, to win their second consecutive MINK League Championship.
St. Joe’s summer college baseball team fell behind 1-0 in the best-of-three championship series, but they won back-to-back games to win back-to-back MINK titles in just their fourth year of exsistence.
The Mustangs fell behind 3-0 Sunday before Tanner Lubach hit a solo home run in the fifth inning to get St. Joseph on the board.
St. Joe then took the lead in the sixth as Kyle Simpson drove in two runs and Kris Koeper had an RBI ground out to give the Mustangs a 4-3 lead.
Sedalia then rallied in the eighth as Michael Gunn hit a two-out, two-run double as St. Joseph fell behind 5-4.
The Mustangs tied the game in the bottom of the eighth as Koerper had another ground out to score Saulyer Saxon.
The game went into extra innings after both teams came up empty in the ninth, but Sedalia took the lead back with a two-out RBI single by Kolby Peebles.
St. Joseph wasted no time bouncing back as Saxon led of the tenth with a single and Simpson double to left center to tie the game.
After Mark Robinette walked and Koeper had an infield single, Jordan Guida grounded to third base with the bases load and Kyle Hardy bobbled the ball and his throw home was late as pinch runner Patrick Burkhart scored the winning run.
Saxon led St. Joe with three hits and three runs, while Simpson and Robinette had two hits each.
Cody Cunningham started the game and went seven innings. He allowed five runs and nine hits, while striking out five.
Chris Green earned the win despite giving up one run on one hit in the to pof the tenth.
The Mustangs improve to 33-17 this season as they’ll host an NBC Regional at Phil Welch Stadium this week in preperation for the NBC World Series in Wichita.