The St. Joseph Mustangs suffered their second straight road loss Monday night as they fell at Clarinda, 2-1.

St. Joe’s summer college baseball team drops to 21-10 and 13-9 in the MINK League.

The Mustangs had a chance to tie or take the lead in the ninth inning as Joe Koerper led off the inning with a single and Mike Sherburne added a double to put runners on second and third with no outs, but Clarinda closer Jason McDonald got out of the jam for his third save.

McDonald struck out Brandon Huske, got Zac Johnson to ground out to third and then Josh Cassidy popped out to second base.

St. Joseph only had four hits in the game as they other two were singles by Koerper and Trent Hill with two outs in the first inning.

The only Mustang run came in the seventh as Sherburne reach third base on an error and scored on a Nick Sebastian sacrafice fly.

Brandon Baker (3-2) suffered the loss as he went 7.1 innings and allowed just two runs on seven hits.  He struck out six and walked three.

Clarinda scored single runs in the first and fifth innings.

The Mustangs have Tuesday off before returning to Phil Welch Stadium Wednesday for a game with the Spooner Bandits.  The first pitch is at 7:00 p.m. and will be broadcast on 680 KFEQ & here on StJosephPost.com.