The Missouri State baseball team scored two runs in the first inning and rode the left arm of Ross Detwiler to a 9-3 Missouri Valley Conference victory on a blustery Friday afternoon at Hammons Field in Springfield.

Detwiler went seven innings to improve to 4-2 on the season, allowing three hits and striking out 10 Braves to move into 11th-place on Missouri State career strikeouts list.

Missouri State (18-12, 3-4 MVC) scored two runs on a hit in the first. Ben Woodbury was hit by Michael Christl’s fourth pitch of the game and stole his way to third before Ryan Mantle lifted a sacrifice fly to the warning track in center to score the Bears’ leadoff man. Kyle Paul then doubled over the right fielder to plate Nolan Keane, who walked earlier.

Matt Lawson singled with one out in the fourth and advanced to third before Tanner Mattson drove him home with a sacrifice fly that the shortstop caught with his back to home plate. Woodbury followed with an RBI single to score Drake for a 4-0 Missouri State lead.

Mantle led off the fifth with a double, was sacrificed to third and scored on Paul RBI single.

The Braves (13-11, 1-3) got on the board in the sixth with a Paul Rice wind-aided solo home run to right.

MSU answered Bradley’s homer with three runs in the bottom of the sixth. Mattson walked and later scored on a wild pitch. Keane singled deep in the hole at shortstop, moved to second on the wild pitch that scored Mattson, stole third and scored on a throwing error by the catcher. Ben Carlson singled and took advantage of reliever Ramie Hamdan’s third and fourth wild pitches of the inning to make the lead 8-1.

Bradley pushed across two runs in the eighth after reliever Pat Doyle walked the bases loaded.

Keane homered down the right field line in the eighth for the 9-3 final score.

Game two of the series is at 2 p.m. Saturday.