Baseball Upsets Spartans, Moves to AMC Championship Game

O’Fallon, Mo. – The Columbia College baseball team powered past the eighth-ranked Spartans of Missouri Baptist University today in their second game of the American Midwest Conference Baseball Tournament. Columbia scored in seven of the nine innings played to roll to a 13-5 win. 

Missouri Baptist was forced to play a “losers-out” game against Central Baptist tonight that saw the Spartans take the 14-2 win. With that win, the Cougars are set to take on the Spartans again tomorrow at 12:00 for the AMC Championship. The Cougars just need one more win to claim the tournament title, while the Spartans would need to beat Columbia twice in a row to take the title. 

Stat Tracker:
CC def. MBU, 13-5

• Reece Clapp got the start and earned the win, only allowing two earned runs through 5.0 IP while striking out two
• Pierce Hartmann pitched the last 3.1 innings, collecting three strike outs
• Columbia out-hit MBU 19-9
• Riley Poulton had two doubles and Devyn Lopez added one
• Indy Stanley and Brayden McGinnis both finished with two home runs each
• Indy Stanley brought in five RBI, while Brayden McGinnis and Duffin Makings followed with three each