Warrensburg, Mo. -- The Missouri Southern baseball team was one out away from a win, but 16th-ranked Central Missouri tied the game in the ninth and won it in the tenth, defeating the Lions 5-4 in ten innings today. 

The Lions (26-13, 16-12 MIAA) got two hits each from Chris Hoffman, Richie Gorski and Danny Biggs. Hoffman scored twice, while Jesse Rall drove in two with his 18th home run of the season. Biggs drove in a run of his own, while Rall and Gorski scored a run each. 

Zach Litchen started and went five and a third, striking out two and allowing just two earned runs on four hits. Kyle McCulloch threw the final three and two thirds and looked poised to get his second win in relief this week, but suffered the loss to move his record to 2-1 on the season. He struck out four and walked none. 

Central (25-10, 23-5 MIAA) got three hits from Bennett Oliver and two from Matt Safranek. 

Southern scored a run in the first when Hoffman scored on a wild pitch. The Lions added two in the third on Rall's homer to left. 

Central scored a run in the fourth, but the Lions got it right back with a run of their own on Biggs' RBI single, scoring Gorski. 

The Mules scored two in the bottom of the sixth to make the score 4-3, and McCulloch entered in relief. He was masterful for the first three innings, getting out of a jam in the sixth, then allowing just a hit each in the seventh and eighth, retiring the Mules without a run. 

Central got a runner aboard in the ninth, but the Lions got two outs before a double from Dylan Farrell scored a run to tie the game and force extras. Southern went in order in the top of the tenth and Bennett Oliver homered to lead off the bottom half of the inning to end the game. 

The Lions will be back in action on Tuesday evening, playing host to Pittsburg State in a mid-week MIAA game. First pitch from Warren Turner Field is slated for 6 pm.