The St. Joseph Mustangs won their first ever MINK League championship Saturday night as Adam Maddox threw a no-hitter in the clinching game against Nevada.

St. Joe’s summer college baseball team defeated the Griffons 4-0 to sweep the three-game series and they improve their record to 40-10 this season.

Maddox, the Mustangs’ Pitcher of the Year in 2010, threw his first no-hitter since high school as he improves to 5-1 this summer and lowered his ERA to 1.86.  Maddox did walk six batters on the night but never had a multi-walk inning as he struck out three.

The Mustangs gave Maddox the lead early as they scored an unearned run in the first inning after Nevada shortstop Peter Goudeau committed a throwing error.

It stayed that way until the fifth inning when they scored another unearned run off Griffons’ starter Josh Malin.  T.J. Dailey and Cameron Bentley led off with singles and Dailey was able to score when a grounder off the bat of Brent Seifert was booted by Goudeau.

St. Joseph then pulled away with a three-run sixth inning that was highlighted by back-to-back doubles by Jordan Guida and Kris Koerper.

Dailey and Bentley led the Mustangs with two hits each, while Bentley, Koerper and Seifert each drove in one run.

The Mustangs will play a couple exhibition games this week at home in preparation for the NBC World Series at Wichita.  St. Joe will play their opening game on Sunday, July 31.  Their opponent and game time are yet to be determined.