Baseball Tops League-Leading Jax State, 10-2

Friday, May 1

Springfield

6:30 p.m.

Missouri State University

27-15, 15-7

Jacksonville State

36-10, 18-4

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

Baseball Tops League-Leading Jax State, 10-2

May 01, 2026 | Baseball

Box Score

By: MSU Athletics Communications

SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State scored eight runs in the third inning and Jason Schaaf struck out a career-high nine batters in seven innings Friday evening as the Bears opened the series with Jacksonville State with a 10-2 win at Route 66 Stadium.

Mo State (27-15, 15-7 Conference USA) improved to 18-1 at home this season with a victory in their first game under the Route 66 Stadium moniker, while Jax State dropped to 36-10 and 18-4 in league games.

Logan Fyffe picked up the first of his career-high four hits in the opening frame with his seventh home run of the season, and Jax Ryan's two-out double drove home Gabe Roessler in the second for a 2-0 lead before the flood gates opened.

The first six Bears reached safely in the third, beginning with a Fyffe double and Curry Sutherland walk, setting up Taeg Gollert's 11^th homer of the season and 110^th career extra-base hit to tie Steve Hacker for second program history.

The runs kept coming on a Carter Bergman two-run run double before Bryce Cermenelli capped it with a three-run homer to extend his hitting streak to 25 games and make it 10-0 Bears.

Schaaf and freshman Ross Felder took over from there on the mound, with Jax State scratching across single runs in the fifth and seventh frames on Schaaf (3-2) before the senior exited after seven innings with nine Ks and one walk. Felder pitched the final two innings with three strikeouts and one single allowed.

The series continues at 2 p.m. Saturday. The first 500 fans will receive a Drake Baldwin bobblehead, and it's also military appreciation day with a commemorative jersey auction in the concourse.

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Jacksonville State

L, 2-10

May 2 (Sat)

2:00 p.m.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Schaaf, Jason (3-2)

L: Eli Pillsbury (6-1)

Jacksonville State

Batting:

2B: Trey King 1

3B: Trey Majette 1

RBI: Caleb Johnson 1 ; Cooper Blauser 1

SF: Cooper Blauser 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Trey Majette 1 ; Ace Williamson 1

CS: Caleb Johnson 1

HBP: Caleb Johnson 1

Missouri State

Batting:

2B: Fyffe, Logan 1 ; Bergman, Carter 1 ; Ryan, Jax 1

HR: Cermenelli, Bryce 1 ; Fyffe, Logan 1 ; Gollert, Taeg 1

RBI: Cermenelli, Bryce 3 ; Fyffe, Logan 1 ; Gollert, Taeg 3 ; Bergman, Carter 2 ; Ryan, Jax 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Cermenelli, Bryce 1 ; Fyffe, Logan 2 ; Sutherland, Curry 1 ; Gollert, Taeg 1 ; Bogenpohl, Caden 1 ; Roessler, Gabe 2 ; Bergman, Carter 1 ; Ryan, Jax 1