Pittsburg, Kan. – The Missouri Southern baseball team got a grand slam and six RBIs from Drew Davis, but the Lions fell 17-13 today in the series finale at Pittsburg State.
 
Southern's (29-23) season ends in the MIAA Tournament Quarterfinals. Davis had homer and a triple and drove in six, going 3-for-5 with a run scored. Tommy Stevenson went 2-for-4 with a homer, while Treghan Parker drove in three and scored twice with a homer and Chayton Beck homered, as well.
 
Henry Kusiak went 3-for-5 with an RBI and two runs, while Matt Miller and Nate Mieszkowski had a pair of hits each.
 
Laif Hultine started and went two innings, while Chase Beiter threw four and two thirds, striking out six. Scott Duensing, Ryan Paschal and Cale McCallister threw in relief, as well.
 
PSU (31-19) led 2-0 after the first, but the Lions went ahead on a three-run homer from Parker in the second and led 5-2 after a two-run double from Davis in the third. PSU tied it at five in the third, before the Lions scored eight unanswered runs to go up 13-5 heading to the bottom of the 5^th.
 
Beck homered to put the Lions up 6-5 to start the fifth. Davis then hit a grand slam to put Southern up 10-5 and Stevenson made it back-to-back homers with a shot off the scoreboard in left to give the Lions an11-5 lead. Matt Miller then hit a sacrifice fly to score Fitzpatrick and Kusiak had an RBI single to score Parker to give the Lions a 13-5 lead heading to the bottom of the fifth.
 
Pitt, however, wasn't done. The Gorillas scored a run in the fifth and 11 over the seventh and eighth innings to put the game away.
 
Duensing made his 31^st appearance on the season, breaking the MSSU single-season record.
 
Stevenson hit his 16^th homer of the season and is tied for second-most in a single-season at Southern. His 32 career homers is fourth in a career at MSSU. Miller finishes the season with 35 career homers and sits in second in that category, while his 15 homers this season is tied for sixth-most in a single season at Southern.
 
Parker finishes the regular season with 14 homers, breaking Stevenson's freshman single-season home run record. Logan VanWey finishes with 123 strikeouts this season, which trails only Zach Parish who had 136 twice. His 222 career strikeouts rank fifth all-time, while his 13.49 strikeouts per nine innings career mark is tops, as is his 76 career appearances.
 
The Lions finished the season with 97 home runs, shattering the previous single-season team record of 81 that was set in 2017. They shattered the total bases record with 1025, breaking the previous mark of 955 set in 2017 and set a new single-season record for slugging with their .567 mark, breaking the previous high set last year. Southern broke the single-season being hit by pitch mark with 76 this year, while the Lions finished one double shy of the school record (131) which was set in 1992.