NEOSHO, Mo. — For the second time in two games the Joplin Eagles earned an extra-inning win.
On Tuesday, Joplin hit the road and battled with Neosho to a 5-5 score after seven innings. The Eagles rallied for seven runs in the ninth inning to earn a 12-5 Central Ozark Conference win.
Joplin scored single runs in the second, third and fourth innings to build a 3-0 advantage before Neosho tallied three runs in the bottom of the fourth to tie the game. Joplin plated two runs in the fifth to regain the lead before the Wildcats answered with a two-run sixth to ultimately send the game into extra innings. The Eagles put the stamp on the win after touching home seven times in the ninth to seal the win.
IN THE CIRCLE
After earning the complete-game win over 8 2/3 innings on Monday, Jill McDaniel proved to have earned the Ironman moniker after pitching all nine innings to earn the complete-game win on Tuesday. She allowed five runs on 13 hits, six walks and had six strikeouts.
Chloe Patterson took the loss after allowing seven runs, one earned, on six hits, two walks and five strikeouts in four relief innings. Carleigh Kinnaird took a no-decision after allowing five runs, three earned, on seven hits, four walks and six strikeouts in five innings of work for Neosho.
TURNING POINT
Joplin’s Libby Munn drove home the go-ahead run in the ninth inning with an RBI single through the left side to play Abby Lowery and give the Eagles a 6-5 lead.
After the Eagles added two runs on a Neosho error later in the ninth, Izzy Yust picked up an RBI on a single before Lowery added an RBI double to make the score 12-5.
AT THE PLATE
Lowery had four hits, including three doubles, to go along with one RBI and a run scored to lead Joplin at the dish. Yust had two hits, scored three times and drove in one, while Munn had two hits with one RBI and a run scored. Loum had one hit and three RBI, while Madisyn Tracy hit a solo home run.
Beclynn Garrett had three hits, including a home run and a double, to go along with three RBI and a run scored. Lili Graue, Kaitlyn Killion and MaKaylie Forrest each had two hits. Graue doubled and scored two runs, while Forrest also added a double.
UP NEXT
Joplin hosts Waynesville on Thursday for Senior Night, while Neosho is at Seneca on Monday.
