Missouri
Baseball Opens Missouri Series with 10-2 Win
COLUMBIA, Mo. – The University of South Carolina baseball pitching staff struck out 17 batters and Cole Messina led the Gamecocks with five RBI in a 10-2 win over Missouri Friday night (May 3) at Taylor Stadium.
Messina was 2-for-4 with a two-run double in the fifth and a three-run home run as Carolina scored five times in the eighth. Talmadge LeCroy had three hits on the night and drove in two. Ethan Petry scored three runs and hit his 40th career home run, a solo shot to start the scoring in the second.
Ty Good earned the win on the mound, striking out seven in four innings of one-hit relief. Good, Roman Kimball, Garrett Gainey, Parker Marlatt and Tyler Dean combined to strike out 17 with Gainey punching out five in 2.1 innings.
Missouri took a 2-1 lead in the second on back-to-back solo home runs but Carolina scored one in the third to tie it, two in the fifth to take the lead, one in the sixth and the five-spot in the eighth.
POSTGAME NOTES
- Carolina has won four straight against Missouri, dating back to 2023.
- Carolina scored in double digits in runs for the fourth straight game.
- The Gamecocks had six extra-base hits on the night.
- The 17 strikeouts are tied for the season high for the Gamecocks. Carolina also struck out 17 against Queens on Feb. 21 and Georgia Southern on April 3.
UP NEXT
Carolina and Missouri continue the three-game set on Saturday afternoon (May 4) at 4 p.m. EDT (3 p.m. CDT). The game will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.
Missouri
Missouri State women’s basketball adds Western Carolina transfer Tyra Robinson
Missouri State women’s basketball announced the signing of Western Carolina transfer forward Tyra Robinson.
Robinson, at 6-foot-3, appeared in 29 games last season with four starts. She averaged 3.5 points, 1.6 rebounds and 7.6 minutes per game during her freshman season.
The Little Rock, Arkansas, native was an all-state performer at Parkview (Arkansas) High during her first three seasons. As a junior, she averaged 15 points, seven rebounds and helped lead her team to state titles in 2021 and 2022.
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Robinson posted 20 points on 9 for 10 shooting in a matchup with Murray State a season ago while also grabbing a season-high seven rebounds.
Robinson becomes the latest addition to the Lady Bears in what’s been a busy offseason for Beth Cunningham as she heads into her third year.
She’s the third post player to join an overhauled frontcourt, joining Mizzou transfer Sarah Linthacum and Seton Hall transfer Makennah White. The Lady Bears have also landed transfers Zoe Stewart (Murray State) and Cady Pauley (Virginia).
Missouri
Atlantic Coca-Cola bottler expands into Missouri – Radio Iowa
The Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Company in southwest Iowa is purchasing the Trenton Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Trenton, Missouri.
Atlantic Bottling CEO Rob Feeney says the expansion into northwest Missouri is a good addition and they now distributed up to the Missouri Iowa border and he says “it fits in really well with our existing Coca Cola distribution area.” Terms of the purchase were not released.
Feeney says they plan to bring the 24 employees in Missouri into the company. “We’re kind of operating the business together here and figuring out how we optimize it right, so we have not made any layoffs, and if we do we will certainly make sure that we provide the right package for any impacted employees,” Feeney says. Atlantic has expanded across Iowa and into parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois in the last several years.
Feeney says they will have around 874 employees with the addition of the Trenton workers.”We have job openings in a variety of different locations and opportunities in our bigger company. And that was another piece of our logic and in bringing over all 24 employees and sorting through things together as one big company,” he says. Feeney says they also made a big investment in a semi-automatic system to build their shipping loads about a year and a half ago at the warehouse in Des Moines.”It replaces some more manual movements people movements in the warehouse with more ergonomic movements, so it’s there’s a there’s a lot of benefits,” Feeney says. “We also get to upskill our labor and you know teach them the technology that’s behind the system which has been a huge gain for us.”
Feeney says the Coke and other products will ship out of Iowa into Missouri. )”And we produce now seven million cases of products annually, and we have plans in place for continued reinvestment and scaling up production there at Atlantic even more,” he says. Feeney says there are now around 61 Coca-Cola distributors across the country. “There’s a variety of different sizes and scales and capabilities. And so, you know, this is has been a little bit of a trend and consolidation,” Feeney says. “I don’t think it’s unique, I know it’s not unique just to Coca Cola but just more broadly speaking, there’s been consolidation in some of these distributorships occur across the country.”
The Trenton business was founded in 1893 and began production of Coca-Cola in April 1899, making it the first Coca-Cola bottler west of the Mississippi. The Atlantic company was founded by Frank P. “Perk” Tyler in 1905 initially as an ice cream and ice business, which grew to include a proprietary soda, “Tyler’s Flavors.” After selling the business to his three sons in 1909, they expanded the business by buying a creamery and began producing Coca-Cola in 1915.
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