DESTIN, FLA.  – CBS Sports has selected a handful of Southeastern Conference football games for early television designation, and the two-time defending SEC Eastern Division champion Missouri Tigers will play on Thanksgiving Friday for the second-straight year against Western Division rival Arkansas.

Mizzou (11-3 overall, 7-1 in SEC play in 2014) will play at Arkansas (7-6, 2-6) on Friday, November 27th, with kickoff in Fayetteville set for 1:30 p.m. (central time) on CBS.  Last season, Mizzou clinched the SEC Eastern Division title by knocking off Arkansas, 28-21, in Columbia on the Friday of Thanksgiving week (Nov. 28, 2014).

All other game times for the 2015 schedule are undetermined currently, as further television selections from the SEC will be forthcoming in the near future.

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LOS ANGELES – Senior 1B Kelsea Roth (Yorba Linda, Calif.) did not want Mizzou Softball’s 2015 season to be over. Her first of two solo home runs late in the 10th-seeded Tigers’ 10-6 setback to No. 7 UCLA helped extend the game, and her next in the bottom of the seventh kept Mizzou’s dream alive a little bit longer.

Head coach Ehren Earleywine’s squad ultimately bowed out to the higher-seeded Bruins (50-10) to end its campaign at 42-16, an impressive season record for one of Mizzou’s most consistent programs. The Tigers have been to the Super Regional round of the NCAA Tournament in seven of the last eight seasons and have averaged 45.7 wins per season under Earleywine’s watch.

Mizzou jumped out on top of UCLA early with a four-hit first inning to help the Tigers take a 1-0 lead. Junior CF Taylor Gadbois (Maryville, Mo.), junior RF Emily Crane (Troy, Mo.), junior 2B Sami Fagan (Dunnellon, Fla.) and freshman DP Amanda Sanchez (West Covina, Calif.) all singled, with Sanchez’s knock up the middle bringing in Gadbois.

Sanchez’s RBI gave her sole possession of Mizzou’s freshman class single-season RBI record (56), which she previously shared with Micaela Minner’s 55 RBI from 2005.

With the score at 9-1 in UCLA’s favor in the bottom of the fifth inning, sophomore C Kirsten Mack (Riverside, Calif.) kept the game going with an RBI single to center field, scoring Fagan who reached on an earlier fielder’s choice.

Mizzou added three runs in the sixth inning, the first of which was Roth’s solo shot that assured the Tigers a seventh inning and avoided the run-rule. Crane tapped an infield single up the middle with the bases loaded to score senior C Alyssa Cousins (Carrollton, Texas). Two outs later, senior SS Corrin Genovese (East Amherst, N.Y.) earned a bases loaded walk to move in sophomore LF Natalie Fleming (Silex, Mo.) for a run.

Roth’s seventh inning trip to #BombCity set the final score of 10-6 in UCLA’s favor.

Freshman P Paige Lowary (Dallas Center, Iowa) got the start for the Tigers (18-7) and pitched 2.2 innings before giving way to sophomore P Tori Finucane (Germantown, Md.).

A scary situation occurred during the fifth inning when a Bruin line drive struck Finucane in the head, resulting in Finucane exiting the game. Lowary returned and pitched the remainder of the contest.

Mizzou finished the season batting .320 as a team, a new single-season program record, besting the .318 mark posted by the Tigers’ 1997 squad. Earleywine’s group also set program all-time highs in RBI (355) and walks (264).

Mizzou also blasted 79 home runs this past season for the second-best total in program history, trailing only 2005’s 82 long balls.

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HOOVER, Ala. – Alabama catcher Will Haynie hit a go-ahead solo homer in the bottom of the seventh inning as Mizzou baseball was eliminated from the SEC Tournament with a 4-3 loss on Thursday morning (May 21) at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. The loss drops the Tigers to 30-28 on the season while Alabama improves to 32-27.

Freshman starter Tanner Houck (Collinsville, Ill.) was good through eight innings of work. The difference in the game came in a two-run sixth inning after he retired the first two batters. A walk, an infield hit and a fielder’s choice led to a two-out single by Cody Henry to tie the game at 3-3 and Haynie’s homer came on the first pitch of the seventh inning to give the Tide the lead for good. Houck allowed four runs on six hits (three infield hits) with eight strikeouts against just one walk.

Alabama used a two-out infield hit by Mikey White and a double by Casey Hughston to take an early 1-0 lead despite some good pitching by Houck. Mizzou got on the board in the fifth as Brett Peel (St. Charles, Mo.) roped a two-out double off the glove of Casey Hughtston in right field to score a pair of runs. It was Peel’s third double in the last 10 games.

The Tigers added a run on a two-out RBI single by freshman Trey Harris (Powder Spring, Ga.) in the sixth inning as Mizzou scored its first three runs with all with two outs. Alabama followed that script in the bottom of the sixth inning after Houck got the first two outs of the inning. A two-out walk, an infield hit and a fielder’s choice grounder to the left side loaded the bases. Cody Henry then bounced a two-run single back up the middle to tie the game at 3-3 headed to the seventh inning. Mizzou stranded a pair in the seventh inning and Alabama the catcher Haynie led off the Tide’s half of the seventh with a solo shot to left field to give Alabama 4-3 lead.

Mizzou got no offense off of the Alabama bullpen in the eighth and the ninth inning as the Tide closed the game put for the win.

Missouri will await its NCAA Tournament fate as the field of 64 is announced Monday.

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