Central Missouri rallies to force winner-take-all Central Region pod title game Sunday

WARRENSBURG, MO (Dakota Information Now) – Augustana baseball fell to No. 3 Central Missouri within the NCAA Central Area Match, 7-4, Saturday evening. The No. 1 seeded Mules pressured a second recreation with the No. 5 seeded Vikings that may happen at 1 p.m. on Sunday. The winner of Sunday’s recreation superior to the NCAA Central Area Tremendous Regional.

Sunday’s contest could have stay stats and stay video obtainable on //GoAugie.com/Stay or on the GoAugie Fan App introduced by CellOnly.

Jed Schmidt was Augustana’s beginning pitcher and spent 1.2 innings on the mound. Caleb Saari entered the sport within the second inning and struck out 5 batters, spending 6.1 innings on the hill.

With Saari’s fifth strikeout of the sport within the eighth inning, Augustana broke one other crew single-season file with the 560th strikeout of the season. The earlier file was 559 strikeouts set in 2018.

The Vikings have been the primary crew to attain, plating two runs within the first inning. Carter Howell received the sport began for AU with a triple down the left area line to attain Max Mosser. Mosser reached base after a single by means of to the correct aspect. Howell scored after Jordan Barth grounded out to the UCM shortstop.

Central Missouri took the lead within the backside of the second inning with three runners crossing the plate.

Within the third inning, Howell tied the sport up at three-a-piece with a solo homer to left heart. The house run is Howell’s 14th of the season.

Luke Ballweg introduced Jaxon Rosencranz dwelling within the fourth inning on a floor out to the second baseman and the Vikings regained the lead, 4-3.

A two-run dwelling run within the fifth inning put the Mules up by one run. Central Missouri pushed its result in three runs within the backside of the seventh inning to steer 7-4 which proved to be the ultimate rating.

Howell led with two runs and two RBI. Dirksen, Rosencranz and Howell every had two hits within the recreation for six of the VIkings’ 9 hits.

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Augustana will face Central Missouri within the closing recreation of the double-elimination match in an effort to advance to the Tremendous Regional subsequent weekend. First pitch is ready for 1 p.m. on Sunday.

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