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Missouri State
Baseball Loses Nightcap To Missouri State, 6-5
4/25/2010 6:00:00 PM | Baseball
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Christian Overstreet delivered a walk-off home run to lead off the bottom of the ninth, giving Missouri State a 6-5 win, and series victory over Creighton, Sunday afternoon at Hammons Field.
The win clinched the series for MSU (17-21, 3-6 MVC), who won Sunday's first game over Creighton (18-15, 6-9 MVC) with another one-run victory.
Four different Creighton players had two hits, as Trever Adams led the way with a pair of hits and two RBI. Elliot Soto, T.J. Roemmich and Carson Vitale were the other three Bluejays with two hits.
Missouri State blasted three home runs in the game, with Kevin Medrano and Tyler Paxson joining Overstreet in the home run column. Paxson and Overstreet also added two RBI.
Bobby Lackovic (3-3) suffered the loss, allowing the Overstreet home run. Clay Murphy (3-0) allowed just one unearned run on four hits in 4.2 innings of relief for his third win of the season.
Creighton had an opportunity to take the lead in the top of the ninth, but left Adams on second with two outs. The Jays left nine men on base in the game, six of which were in scoring position.
The Jays jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first, via an Adams double. After a Soto walk and Jimmy Swift single, Adams blasted an Aaron Meade offering off the center field wall to score both runners.
The Bears countered with the next three runs, starting with Medrano's solo home run in the first. MSU took the lead in the fourth on Paxson's home run, ,as his blast cleared the 400' mark in center for a 3-2 lead.
The Jays answered in the next inning, as a Soto single and a one-out Adams walk set up a Roemmich single through the right side to tie the game at three. Scott Thornburg greeted Murphy to the mound with the second run-scoring single of the inning to give the Jays a 4-3 lead.
Soto expanded the Creighton lead to 5-3 with a single in the sixth. An Alex Staehely single, a Zane Hinkel sac bunt and a passed ball set up Soto's shot through a draw-in infield for the two-run advantage.
The Bears stormed back with two runs in the seventh to tie it at five. Overstreet doubled in Paxson after a lead-off walk to chase CU starter Brandon Koenigstein from the game. J.C. Casey followed a groundout and another CU pitching change with a pinch-hit single to tie the game at five before Overstreet's blast won it in the ninth.
Creighton will resume play on Tuesday with a doubleheader against Air Force in Omaha. First pitch for the two, seven-inning contests will be at 1 p.m.
NOTES: Soto extended his season-high hitting streak to seven games with his two-hit performance .... Adams posted his 18th multi-hit game of the season ... The loss dropped Creighton to 63-25 in doubleheaders under Ed Servais ... The Jays have lost their last three seasons series to Missouri State ... The Jays lost their fourth straight one-run game, falling to 5-8 on the season in that category ... Creighton opponents have won seven games this season in their last at-bat ... The last time CU lost on a walk-off home run was May 6, 2008 at Missouri. Pat Venditte gave up a one-out, two-run home run with a one-run lead against the Tigers.
