No. 5 Bellevue stuns Mustang bats
SIOUX CITY, IOWA – Morningside welcomed no. 5 Bellevue to MercyOne Field for the second half of a two-game season series with the Bruins. The Mustangs jumped on Bellevue early last time, fending off a comeback, but Morningside seems to have poked the bear in the last outing, as the Bruins came back ready in the form of a 12-4 win.
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0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 1 |
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SIOUX CITY, IOWA – Morningside welcomed no. 5 Bellevue to MercyOne Field for the second half of a two-game season series with the Bruins. The Mustangs jumped on Bellevue early last time, fending off a comeback, but Morningside seems to have poked the bear in the last outing, as the Bruins came back ready in the form of a 12-4 win.
The Mustangs started out strong today as Kai Purdy-Burton threw two scoreless innings with a pair of runs in the second to back him.
Wade Canaday threw a scoreless third, with an Eddie Brancato blast over the left field wall to increase Morningside's lead, but struggled in the fourth, recording one out before Bellevue found its stride, stringing together opportune hits throughout the rest of the game.
Morningside had nine hits throughout the contest, but was unable to build enough to get any runs across, save the bottom of the eighth inning when Ryan Kiolbassa drove a run in.
Hunter Hope and Jayson Willers, this week's Great Plains Athletic Conference player of the week, each had two hits in the contest.
The Mustangs have a couple days to recover from the loss before opening a four-game series at Briar Cliff on Saturday at 1 p.m.