WKU Hands Baseball Bears First Home Loss

Sunday, April 19

Springfield

1:00 p.m.

Missouri State University

26-11, 14-4

Western Kentucky

20-20, 7-11

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Western Kentucky	0	0	0	2	1	5	0	1	1	10	11	1
Missouri State	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	5	8	2

WKU Hands Baseball Bears First Home Loss

April 19, 2026 | Baseball

Box Score

By: MSU Athletics Communications

SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State's school-record 17-game home winning streak came to an end Sunday afternoon as visiting Western Kentucky salvaged the Conference USA series finale with a 10-5 victory.

WKU's Hayden Robbins hit a two-out, two-strike grand slam in the sixth inning to put the Hilltoppers (20-20, 7-11) up for good, while the Bears dropped to 26-11 overall and 14-4 in league play.

The game was scoreless until the fourth inning, when WKU hit a two-out, two-run triple in the top half and Curry Sutherland smacked a two-run homer in the bottom half before Taeg Gollert added an RBI fielder's choice.

The Toppers scored another two-out run in the fifth to pull even, then Caden Bogenpohl opened the Mo State fifth with a single and scored on Brant Kragel's ground out before Sutherland connected on his second round-tripper of the game and 12^th of the year for a 5-3 advantage.

Western Kentucky loaded the bases with nobody out in the sixth and plated five, including the Robbins grand slam, and turned a leadoff walk into a run in the eighth for a 9-5 advantage. The Tops then tacked on one more in the ninth.

Bryce Cermenelli became the 11^th player in program history with a 20-game hitting streak thanks to a third-inning single and went 2-for-5 on the day. Sutherland notched his first career multi-homer game.

Jason Schaaf (2-2) went five innings in the start and took the loss, while WKU reliever Nathan Lawson allowed two hits and struck out six over the final four innings.

The Bears begin a five-game road trip on Tuesday with a 6 p.m. game at No. 16 Arkansas. Mo State won the season's first meeting 15-14 on March 31 in Springfield.

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