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Box Score 2 Joplin, Mo. -- The 19th ranked Missouri Southern baseball team swept a double-header from visiting Washburn today, winning game one 11-9 and taking the nightcap 14-1.
Southern (24-6, 15-3 MIAA) picked up a huge game in the opener from Chris Hoffman as the junior went 4-4 with a pair of home runs, six RBIs and four runs scored.
The Lions scored two runs in the first on a home run from Richie Gorski and then an RBI single from Tee Helsel.
Southern added five runs in the second, all with two outs. Hoffman doubled home Mitchell Osburn and Jacob Bryant, while Jesse Rall and Jon Davis hit back-to-back home runs.
Southern added another run in the fourth on a Hoffman home run, before Washburn (21-10, 14-9 MIAA) added two more in their half of the sixth to make the score 8-3, Lions.
A three-run home run by Hoffman in the sixth proved to be crucial as Washburn added six runs in the seventh before Kanon Hoover shut the door.
Tyler Burgess started and went six and a third, striking out nine and walking just one to go to 3-0 on the season.
An eight-run second inning, as well as a stellar pitching performance from Payton Walker highlighted game two.
Walker went all seven, striking out seven and walking just one, while scattering four hits and allowing a single run to move his record to 6-1 on the season.
The Lions got a run in the first on an RBI single from Rall. Southern then added eight runs in the second. Chad Shannon had a three run bomb to start the scoring, and Jesse Rall added an RBI of his own. Davis then added an RBI single, and Axel Johnson finished off the scoring with a two-run double.
Hoffman hit his third home run of the day in the third, to put the Lions up 11-1 and then Southern scored three more runs in the sixth, highlighted by a two-run double from Jackson Cain.
Hoffman went 2-4 with a pair of RBIs and runs scored in the game. Shannon went 1-3 with three RBIs and a run scored, while Rall drove in two and scored once. Johnson was 2-3 with a pair of RBIs, while Cain added a pair of RBIs himself.
The Lions will be back at it tomorrow afternoon with a single, nine-inning game at 1 pm.
