Baseball Bears Slug Four Homers, Run Rule MTSU

Saturday, March 21

Springfield

2:00 p.m.

Missouri State University

14-7, 4-1

Middle Tennessee

12-11, 2-3

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Middle Tennessee	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	4	8	0
Missouri State	3	1	7	0	3	0	X	14	15	1

Baseball Bears Slug Four Homers, Run Rule MTSU

March 21, 2026 | Baseball

Box Score

By: MSU Athletics Communications

SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State equaled season highs with 14 runs and 15 hits Saturday afternoon at Hammons Field to earn a 14-4 run-rule victory over Middle Tennessee and improve to 9-0 at home.

The Bears (14-7, 4-1 Conference USA) got RBI singles from Caden Bogenpohl and Curry Sutherland along with a Max Knight sacrifice fly in a three-run first, and Bryce Cermenelli launched his first home run of the season in the second for a 4-3 lead.

Starter Owen Slater (3-2) settled in after that, completing five innings and allowed one earned run while striking out a career-high eight, getting all the cushion he needed thanks to a seven-run outburst by the Bears in the third.

The first five Mo State hitters reached safely in that inning, with Sutherland hitting a two-run homer (8^th), Logan Fyffe adding a two-run single to extend his hitting streak to 13 games, and Taeg Gollert blasting a three-run home run to become the seventh player in school history with 100 career extra-base hits.

Brant Kragel belted his first homer of the year in the fifth, a three-run shot for a 14-3 lead, and the Blue Raiders (12-11, 2-3) hit a solo homer in the sixth to cap the scoring.

Fyffe went 3-for-4 at the plate to tie his career high for hits, while Cermenelli, Gollert, Bogenpohl, Sutherland and Kragel all registered two hits. Gollert also reached a 10-game hitting streak for the fourth time in his career.

The Bears go for the sweep at 1 p.m. Sunday. Tickets to all home games are available here.

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W, 10-9

Mar 22 (Sun)

1:00 p.m.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Slater, Owen (3-2)

L: Drew Horn (1-1)

Middle Tennessee

Batting:

2B: Tyler Minnick 1

HR: Nathan Brewer 1

RBI: Owen Nowak 1 ; Tyler Minnick 1 ; Brett Rogers 1 ; Nathan Brewer 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Owen Nowak 1 ; Nathan Brewer 2 ; Clay Badylak 1

HBP: Owen Nowak 1

Missouri State

Batting:

2B: Cermenelli, Bryce 1 ; Knight, Max 1

HR: Cermenelli, Bryce 1 ; Gollert, Taeg 1 ; Sutherland, Curry 1 ; Kragel, Brant 1

RBI: Cermenelli, Bryce 1 ; Gollert, Taeg 3 ; Bogenpohl, Caden 1 ; Sutherland, Curry 3 ; Knight, Max 1 ; Fyffe, Logan 2 ; Kragel, Brant 3

SF: Knight, Max 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Cermenelli, Bryce 2 ; Gollert, Taeg 2 ; Bogenpohl, Caden 2 ; Sutherland, Curry 1 ; Bergman, Carter 1 ; Knight, Max 1 ; Fyffe, Logan 2 ; Atkinson, Bobby 1 ; Kragel, Brant 2