After a two-day layoff the St. Joseph Mustangs returned to Phil Welch Stadium Wednesday night and crushed the Kansas City Monarchs, 16-2, in a non-league game.

St. Joe’s summer college baseball team improve to 10-8 this season and they remain 7-8 in MINK League play.

The Mustangs fell behind 1-0 in the first inning, but then scored 16 unanswered runs.

St. Joseph used an eight run third inning to take the lead and they added three more runs in the fifth and five in the sixth inning.

Zac Johnson hit a two-run home run and finished with three hits.  He drove in three runs and stole home in the third inning.

Kris Koerper added a three-run home run in the game as all nine positions players for the Mustangs had at least one hit.

Jonathan McCann picked up his first win of the season as he went six innings and allowed one run on six hits.

St. Joe is back at Phil Welch Stadium Thursday night as they host Rossville in another non-league game at 7:00 PM.  The game will air live on 680 KFEQ and here on stjosephpost.com.