Joplin, Mo. – The 11^th-ranked Missouri Southern baseball team took out visiting Newman today 8-1 inside Warren Turner Field.
 
The Lions (19-6, 13-6 MIAA) and the Jets (5-13, 4-12 MIAA) were slated to play two games today, but instead will play two games tomorrow. First pitch at Warren Turner Field will be at 11 am.
 
Southern got a strong outing from Zach Parish who went seven innings and struck out ten batters, allowing just one earned run and three hits. Scott Duensing and Cale McCallister threw an inning each in relief.
 
Jordan Fitzpatrick led off the game with a home run on the first pitch and went 3-for-5 with a pair of RBIs and two runs scored. Dexter Swims had a double and two runs scored, while Troy Gagan had a pair of hits and an RBI. Henry Kusiak had an RBI and two runs scored, while Joe Kinder drove in a run of his own.
 
The Lions got the scoring started in the first on Fitzpatrick's homer and an RBI double from Kinder scoring Kusiak.
 
Newman answered with a home run in the second, but that would be the only run that Parish would allow.
 
Fitzpatrick drove in Swims in the second to make the score 3-1 and the Lions added five runs in the seventh. Gagan singled home Matt Miller, while he and Fitzpatrick worked a first-third stolen base combo to score Fitzpatrick. Kusiak added an RBI single to score Gagan and Swims singled home both Clay Milas and Kusiak for the final runs of the game.
 
The two teams will be back at it tomorrow for a double-header starting at 11 am.