Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Kearney, Neb. – The Nebraska-Kearney baseball team scored three runs in the top of the ninth inning to upset 4th-ranked Central Missouri, 6-4, in the second game of a double header Friday evening in Warrensburg, Mo.
 
The first game featured only eight hits with the Mules (12-2, 9-1) scoring three runs in the first to post a 4-1 victory.
 
To end Central's 12-game winning streak, the Lopers (9-8, 9-6) used three hits, a walk and a hit batter to rally from a one run deficit in the ninth.
 
Junior right hander Carlos Palomo (Gering) staked UNK to a 2-1 lead as the allowed two just hits and one earned run over six full innings. Sophomore leadoff hitter Max Ayoub (3 for 5) hit a one out homer in the fifth to break a one all tie.
 
However, Central used a leadoff walk and a single to tie things in the seventh and then moved ahead with a two-run eighth that featured three hits. Redshirt freshman Joe Smidt (North Platte) did manage to get a strikeout to strand Mules at first and third.
 
The Kearney ninth saw Ayoub (Grand Island) deliver a one-out single to right to bring home junior third baseman Scott Jameson (2 for 4), who led off with a single up the middle. Later, senior catcher Chandler Klute (Kearney) and sophomore second baseman Danny Droll (Florence, Colo.) had RBI's.
 
Smidt earned his first collegiate save by throwing a scoreless inning with junior righty Dalton Cowen (Gillette, Wyo.) picking up his team-leading third win.

UCM's last MIAA regular season loss came on March 25, 2012, to Fort Hays State. The Mules also won all three games in the '12 MIAA tourney.
 
In game one, Central had three of its five hits in the first inning, including a leadoff homer by shortstop junior Sam Domingue. The Mules also took advantage of a walk and a hit batter
 
Junior righty Kurtis Schuyler improved to 2-1 by allowing only three hits and a run in 6.2 innings.

Klute hit a solo homer in the second to account for the Lopers run with a potential rally stopped in the top of the seventh when junior lefty Zach Davis got a strikeout to end the game.
 
Junior Drew Postgate (Greeley, Colo.) settled down and blanked Central for four innings with Cowen throwing a scoreless inning in relief.
 
The series will conclude tomorrow with a nine inning game at one.