Central Missouri News

ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T's baseball team will open its Great Lakes Valley Conference schedule with a four-game series with William Jewell starting with a single game Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. in Liberty, Mo. The teams will play a doubleheader Saturday at 1 p.m. and close the series with a single game Sunday that will also start at 1 p.m.
 
The Miners (8-3) enter the series on a five-game winning streak that included a sweep of a four-game set with Hillsdale last weekend. In the series finale, S&T got huge days from Michael Hughes (St. Clair, MO/St. Clair), Nick Krodinger (DeSoto, MO/DeSoto) and Doug Wood (Liberty, MO/Liberty North) as the trio drove in 11 of the 14 runs; Hughes and Krodinger had four runs batted in each and Wood belted a three-run homer as part of a six-run second inning, allowing Matthew Kaiser (St. Louis, MO/Vianney) to pick up his first win of the season. 
 
Dakota Sill (Lansing, KS/Lansing) leads S&T in four different statistical categories offensively which includes a .462 batting average, 18 hits, 28 total bases and a slugging percentage of .718. He also leads the team with nine stolen bases and an on-base percentage of .543. Wood leads S&T in runs batted in with 20 and in home runs with three while batting for an average of .316 and a slugging percentage of .632.
 
On the mound, Ethan Morrow (Lenexa, KS/Shawnee Mission West) leads S&T in innings pitched with 13.2 innings and strikeouts as he struck out 16 batters on the season, while Dylan Mollett (St. Louis, MO/Oakville) has recorded 13.1 innings on the hill with 12 strikeouts in his three starts. 
 
Out of the bullpen, S&T has used nine different pitchers this season. The bullpen allowed only three hits in the Alabama Huntsville series and recorded 29 strikeouts in this previous series against Hillsdale.
 
ABOUT WILLIAM JEWELL:
The Cardinals (7-3) enter their GLVC season opener coming off a four-game series sweep against Bemidji State last weekend and are on a six-game winning streak of their own going into a non-conference doubleheader on Wednesday against Upper Iowa.
 
This season, the Cardinals are led in batting by Jake Wilcox with an average of .488 that includes a team-high 21 hits and 14 RBI, while Jordan Phillips is second on the team with a .395 batting average and 15 hits. 
 
On the mound, Chandler Ashby leads the Cardinals with 18.2 innings pitched where he has struck out 19 batters and has an earned run average of 2.89.  Another starting arm for William Jewell is Jake Sawyer, as he has pitched 17 innings while giving up 16 hits and nine earned runs on the season. 
 
William Jewell and S&T have both faced Wayne State (Neb.) this season, with Miners splitting a four-game series to open the campaign and the Cardinals taking two-of-three from the Wildcats with both victories coming by the run rule. 

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