St. Joseph, Mo. -- The 4th-ranked Missouri Southern baseball team swept a double-header at Missouri Western today, winning 8-6 in the opener and 13-1 in the night cap in seven innings. 

Southern (13-1, 7-1 MIAA) got a win in game one from Zach Parish as Cole Woods picked up the save. Zac Shoemaker picked up the win in game two as Scott Duensing, Jacob Davis and Jeremiah Kennedy combined to hold the Griffons 2-11, 1-7 MIAA) to one hit in relief. 

Game one saw the Lions get on top first when Tommy Stevenson hit a two-run home run in the first to put Southern up 2-0 after one. Troy Gagan added a two-run home run of his own in the third to make the score 4-0. 

Henry Kusiak singled home Grant Harris in the fourth, while Clay Milas and Dexter Swims knocked home Stevenson and Swims in the fifth to put the Lions up 7-0. 

Western scored a pair of runs before the Lions added an unearned run to lead 8-2 going to the bottom of the sixth. The Griffons added four more runs, but Woods held on for the win. 

Gagan was 3-for-5 with a home run, while Stevenson was 2-for-4 with a home run and two runs scored. Kusiak scored a pair of runs, as well. 

Game two was all Lions. Southern picked up an unearned run in the first and got another run in the third off a home run from Jordan Fitzpatrick to make the score 2-0. 

The Griffons scored a run in the third, but that would be all they got. 

Southern exploded for eight runs in the fourth, highlighted by a three-run home run from Fitzpatrick, his second of the game, as well as a two-RBI single from Kusiak to score Matt Miller and Harris. Joe Kinder and Miller added an RBI on a hit by pitch, as well in the inning. 

The Lions scored two more in the sixth off of RBIs from Stevenson and Clay Milas and Kinder picked up an RBI double in the seventh for the game's final tally. 

The two teams will be back at it tomorrow afternoon at 1 pm.