NEWARK, Del. – Missouri State bashed a season-high 16 hits and scored in seven of nine innings Saturday afternoon for a 15-10 win at Delaware.
 
Mo State moved to 23-10 overall and 11-3 in Conference USA while claiming its seventh series in nine weekends. The Blue Hens dropped to 10-25 and 1-13 in league play.
 
Logan Fyffe reached base six times and scored five runs after being hit by two pitches, walking once and matching a career high with three hits, while Gabe Roessler and Bobby Atkinson also notched three hits.
 
The Bears were hit by six pitches – their most since 2011 – and drew six walks in addition to the 16 base knocks.
 
The game featured several early lead changes, with an Atkinson two-run double putting the Bears up 5-3 in the third, and Brant Kragel's two-run single in the fifth giving Mo State the lead for good at 7-6.
 
In the seventh, Roessler singled, stole second and scored on a Fyffe single, then Fyffe stole second and scored on Taeg Gollert's single to make it 10-7.
 
Kragel and Carter Bergman added RBI singles in the seventh for 12-7, Gollert hit his ninth homer of the season and 35^th of his career for a 14-7 lead in the eighth, and Roessler hit another RBI single in the ninth.
 
The Bears go for the sweep at 11 a.m. Central Sunday before returning home Wednesday for a 6:30 p.m. game with Missouri at Hammons Field. Tickets to all home games are available here.