Mustangs collect 25 runs in sweep over Cornerstone

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DAVENPORT, Fla. — The Morningside baseball team put up 25 runs Tuesday, as the Mustangs swept Cornerstone (Mich.) with 8-6 and 17-8 victories.

Morningside was wide awake in Game 1, which started at 8 a.m. Iowa time. After Cornerstone scored in the top of the first, the Mustangs responded with six first-inning runs. Romani Perez put his team on the board with a two-run single that scored Jacob O'Dell and Michael Delzell.

Mason King then had an RBI single, then Luke Blackmon drove in Connor Woods and Perez with a two-run single. Jaxon Bunkers closed out the six-run frame with an RBI single.

Later in the third inning, Conner Maston hit a two-run home run.

Perez had three hits, while King and Maston each produced two hits.

Carson Maston and Kade Yasui combined to allow six runs on four hits, while totaling nine strikeouts. Yasui — who earned the win — walked one out of 15 batters faced in 4 1/3 innings.

In Game 2, Luke Froehlich and Kentaro Felton each hit two-run homers early in the game. Ian Thomas also hit a two-run triple during the third.

Then, the Mustangs scored 10 times over the last three innings — six in the fifth, two in the sixth and two in the seventh. Felton had the lone run-producing extra-base hit during that stretch with a triple in the sixth that scored Froehlich.

Perez, Devan McGivern, and Owen Hess took the mound for Morningside. They allowed eight runs on seven hits, and also struck out nine hitters. McGivern got the win, pitching two innings and allowing two baserunners.