JACKSONVILLE – Missouri broke up an extra-inning deadlock with a pair of runs in the 12th inning to claim a 6-4 win over Jacksonville State on Saturday on Rudy Abbott Field at
Jim Case Stadium.
The win gives the Tigers the series as the Gamecocks will look to bounce back on Sunday in the series finale. The final game of the season-opening weekend is set for 12 p.m. The game will be available on ESPN+ and aired on the Gamecock Sports Network. All JSU students and fans 18 years old and younger are admitted free. Kids will also be able tio run the bases following each Sunday home game this season.
Mizzou's Brandt Belk beat out a fielder's choice for the go-ahead RBI in the 12th inning. The Tigers added an insurance run in the frame as Jackson Lancaster scored on a wild pitch. The Tigers extended the game with a two-run eighth inning after stringing together four hits.
The Gamecocks erased an early 2-0 deficit for the second consecutive day as they would put together a three-run fourth inning that was highlighted by singles by junior
Cole Frederick, senior
Alex Webb and junior
Isaac Alexander. Frederick and Webb started the inning with back-top-back singles before Alexander had the one-out RBI single. Webb scored on a wild pitch ahead of
Carson Crowe's sacrifice fly to centerfield to hand JSU its first lead of the weekend.
JSU pushed the lead to 4-2 in the sixth as Alexander picked up his second RBI of the day with a ground out.
Jax State used five pitchers in the extended contest as it started sophomore
Isaiah Magwood. A pair of first inning miscues opened the door for the Tigers to take the early lead. Magwood tossed the first four innings before redshirt junior
Jackson Tavel pitched three solid frames. Senior
Corley Woods was inserted into a tough situation in the eighth but held the game even. Corley, who was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Association's Preseason Watch List for Stopper of the Year, scattered three Tiger hits and tallied a pair of strikeouts. Freshman
Camden Lovrich was saddled with the loss in his debut after pitching the 12th inning.
The Gamecocks, who had 11 last at-bat wins in 2019, nearly notched its first of 2020 in the 11th as they loaded the bases with two outs, but Mizzou's Trey Dillard induced a ground ball out to extend the game. He picked up the win after going the final 1.1 innings.
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