Missouri State University
30-28
Oklahoma State
40-20
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Runs R | Hits H | Errors E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
| Oklahoma State | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | X | 10 | 14 | 0 |
Baseball Bears Fall 10-5 in NCAA Opener at Oklahoma State
June 03, 2022 | Baseball
STILLWATER, Okla. – Missouri State opened its 12th NCAA Tournament appearance Friday with a 10-5 loss at No. 7 overall seed Oklahoma State in front of 5,712 fans at O'Brate Stadium.
The Bears (30-28) got extra-base hits from five different players to give them 230 on the season, the program's most since 1999, but were unable to overcome a 6-0 deficit after four innings thanks to a trio of early home runs by the Cowboys (40-20).
Missouri State's offense got in gear in the sixth when Mason Greer launched his 10th home run and the team's 100th of the year – the third season of 100-plus long balls in school history - over the right field wall to make it 6-2. Cam Cratic singled on the next pitch and Dakota Kotowski blasted the pitch after that over the fence for his 24th bomb of the year and a 6-4 margin in the blink of an eye.
Kotowski's home run tied him with Spencer Johnson's 2016 campaign for fifth in a single season and doubled as the team's 101st homer to tie DBU in 2021 for ninth on the Missouri Valley Conference single-season list and the most by a conference team since 1999.
The Cowboys immediately struck back with four runs in the bottom of the sixth for a 10-4 lead. Walker Jenkins doubled and scored on a Drake Baldwin single in the seventh for the final margin.
Missouri State takes on Grand Canyon in an elimination game at noon Saturday.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Mederos, Victor (4-4)
L: Barnes, Forrest (6-6)
Batting:
2B: Wood, Grant 1 ; Duff, Will 1 ; Jenkins, Walker 1
HR: Greer, Mason 1 ; Kotowski, Dakota 1
RBI: Baldwin, Drake 1 ; Greer, Mason 2 ; Kotowski, Dakota 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Baldwin, Drake 1 ; Greer, Mason 1 ; Cratic, Cam 1 ; Kotowski, Dakota 1 ; Jenkins, Walker 1
HBP: Wood, Grant 1 ; Jenkins, Walker 1
Batting:
2B: Doersching, Griffin 2 ; Brown, Marcus 1 ; Daugherty, Ian 1
HR: Riggio, Roc 1 ; McLean, Nolan 2
RBI: Trenkle, Caeden 1 ; Riggio, Roc 1 ; Thompson, Jake 2 ; Doersching, Griffin 2 ; McLean, Nolan 2 ; Daugherty, Ian 1
SH: Crull, Jaxson 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Trenkle, Caeden 2 ; Riggio, Roc 2 ; Thompson, Jake 1 ; McLean, Nolan 2 ; Brown, Marcus 1 ; Daugherty, Ian 2
SB: Trenkle, Caeden 1
