Joplin, Mo. -- The Missouri Southern baseball team hit six home runs on the day with Tommy Stevenson and Ryan Doran getting a pair each as the Lions took out Northwest Missouri 8-6 on Warren Turner Field. 

Southern (11-7, 3-2 MIAA) got a quality start from Logan VanWey as he went six innings, allowing just three earned runs, while striking out eight and walking none en route to his first win of the season. Cale McCallister, Ryan Paschal, Scott Duensing and Laif Hultine threw in relief with Hultine picking up save No. 2 of the weekend. 

Stevenson went 4-for-5 with two home runs, three RBIs and two runs scored, while Doran was 2-for-4 with a pair of homers, two RBIs and two runs scored. Matt Miller was 2-for-4 with a home run, while Jordan Fitzpatrick was 2-for-5 with a homer, two driven in and a run scored. Clay Milas had a hit and two runs scored, while Henry Kusiak had a hit of his own. 

Northwest Missouri (4-11, 0-5 MIAA) got a pair of unearned runs in the first, but the Lions answered right back with homers from Stevenson and Fitzpatrick to tie the score at two. 

Southern got three runs in the second as Doran and Miller went back-to-back with a pair of homers to start the scoring. After Milas had walked and stole second, Stevenson drove him home with a single to right. 

Doran homered for the second time in the third to make the score 6-2, while Fitzpatrick had an RBI single to score Milas in the fourth to make it 7-2. 

The Bearcats got a run in the fifth, before the Lions answered back with Stevenson's second home run of the game in the sixth to make it 8-3. Northwest scored two in the seventh and one in the ninth, before Hultine closed it out. 

The two teams will be back in action tomorrow afternoon with the finale of the series taking place at 1 pm.