SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The Missouri State baseball team held Missouri scoreless after the third inning Wednesday and got a pair of two-RBI hits from Derek Mattea and Luke Voit on the way to a 5-2 win over the Tigers at Taylor Stadium in Columbia.

    MU (17-24) first baseman Eric Garcia ended the Bears’ 50.2-inning streak without allowing a homer with a two-run shot in the third, but the Bears (24-15) answered right back in the fourth, opening with a leadoff walk from Spiker Helms and a Brent Seifert double before Mattea came through with a two-strike, two-out single up the middle to tie the game at 2-2.

    Seifert set the table again in the sixth with a leadoff single, and Voit launched his fourth homer of the year over the right field fence for a 4-2 lead.

    Pierce Johnson started for the Bears and went four innings, striking out three against two runs on four hits. Jake Powers (1-0) entered in the fifth and fired 3.2 scoreless innings, yielding two hits and a walk against three strikeouts for his first win of the year.

    An error and a single opened the door for the Tigers in the eighth, giving the home team three chances with the go-ahead run at the plate. A sacrifice moved both runners into scoring position and Powers got a foul out to first before giving way to Dan Kickham, who struck out Ben Turner to keep the 4-2 lead.

    The Bears added an insurance run in the ninth, as Aaron Conway was hit by a pitch with two outs and scored on the next pitch, moving to third on Kevin Medrano’s single to left and scoring when the left fielder fumbled the ball.

    Kickham allowed a leadoff single in the ninth and retired the next three hitters for his ninth save, tying Chris Krawczyk’s 2006 total for second in school history for a season.    

    The Bears begin a three-game Missouri Valley Conference series with Evansville (22-15, 3-6) Friday at 6 p.m.