MU eliminated in NCAA regional baseball by Western Kentucky
Missouri’s baseball season ended with an 11-6 loss to Western Kentucky today in the NCAA regional playoffs in Oxford, Mississippi.
Western Kentucky, which opened the regional by beating the Tigers, jumped out to a 7-0 lead after two innings and held on to eliminate Missouri (35-27). The closest the Tigers could close the gap was 7-3 after the top of the fifth, but Western Kentucky got three runs in the bottom half to all but clinch the game.
The lead was 11-3 going into the top of the ninth before the Tigers added three runs on a double by Greg Foglia, a sacrifice fly by Aaron Senne, a double by Kyle Mach and singles by Trevor Coleman and Ryan Ampleman.
The Tigers were making their seventh consecutive trip to the NCAA playoffs but have advanced to the Super Regionals just once (2006).
MU had finished the regular season on a 15-4 run and then advanced to the final of the Big 12 tournament before losing to Texas.
Kyle Gibson tied the school record for strikeouts in a season with 131 (also held by Max Scherzer, 2005). Gibson’s career total of 304 strikeouts and 28 wins are both No. 2 on the school record list.
He is expected to be a first-round draft choice in the MLB draft (June 9).
MU should never have even been in the NCAA regionals. Good goin WKU.
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