C-SC baseball leaves 12 runners on base, scores just one run in first-round loss at Heart tournament

OZARK, Mo. — The Culver-Stockton baseball team collected eight hits, three walks and two hit batters in its first-round game at the Heart of America Athletic Conference Tournament, but only one of them crossed the plate in a 4-1 loss Thursday morning to Clarke University at the Ozark Mountain Sports Complex.

The Wildcats, the seventh seed in the tournament, will play at 10 a.m. Friday versus the loser of the game between Park University and Mount Mercy University. Clarke, the eighth seed, advanced to play second-seeded MidAmerica Nazarene University at 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

Trailing 3-0 in the fourth inning, C-SC plated its only run of the game when Ryan Osso tripled with one out and scored on a single by Wyatt Wright.

The Wildcats went 2 for 13 in the game with runners in scoring position, leaving 12 runners on base overall.

Osso also had a double and was the only Wildcat to post a multiple hit game. Tristan Meny was on base four times with a single and three walks to lead the C-SC offense.

Starting pitcher Davin Meier hurled the first seven innings, scattering eight hits and allowing three runs (two earned). He walked two and struck out two. Cole Parkhill pitched the final two innings, giving up three hits and one run.