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OK, let’s try to get back to some normalcy after tornado after tornado rumbled through different parts of Missouri.  I wasn’t in the mood to talk sports yesterday, but let’s get amped up for a big weekend here in Missouri.

On today’s podcast you’ll hear from Patrick Mahomes, the St. Louis Blues who get ready for the Stanley Cup, plus the Cardinals are not ready to make knee jerk reactions and nobody is ready to panic in their clubhouse.  Plus two Missouri natives make their WNBA debuts this weekend.  Hear from Sophie and Naphessa…two mid-Missouri girls!

Northwest Missouri State women’s tennis knocked out in quarterfinals

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Story:  Northwest Athletics

The Northwest Missouri State University women’s tennis team fell to the University of Indianapolis (24-0 overall) in the national quarterfinals of the 2019 NCAA Division II Tournament, 4-0. Northwest completes its 2018-19 season with a mark of 20-7 overall. It is the eighth 20-win season in program history and the first 20-win campaign for the Bearcats since the 2007-08 season. It is the third time that Northwest has reached the national quarterfinals in program history (1997, 2003, 2019).

No. 2-seeded UIndy grabbed an early 1-0 lead in doubles. UIndy topped Northwest at No. 1 doubles and at No. 3 doubles.

UIndy’s No. 1 doubles team of Nikol Alexeeva and Anya Novikova came into the match ranked No. 6 in the national ITA rankings. Alexeeva and Novikova tallied a 6-1 win over Northwest’s Tania Teruel and Marta Ferrando. Teruel and Ferrando were ranked No. 15 by the ITA.

UIndy’s duo of Maja Pindelska and Anna Valiaeva scored a 6-3 triumph over Northwest’s Julie Rinderknech and Tess Lovig at No. 3 doubles.

The Greyhounds scored singles wins at No. 1, No. 2 and No. 5 to clinch the dual victory and advance to the national semifinals.

At No. 1 singles, UIndy’s Volikova posted a 6-0, 6-2 win over Northwest’s Irene Recuenco.

At No. 2 singles, the Greyhounds’s Alexeeva scored a 6-2, 6-0 triumph over Northwest’s Tania Teruel.

At No. 5 singles, UIndy’s Alina Kislitskaya notched a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Northwest’s Rinderknech.

Northwest had captured a set in the other three singles matches but all three were called when Kislitskaya clinched the dual win at No. 5 singles. Ferrando took the first set and led 5-4 in the third at No. 3 singles. Julia Aliseda bounced back to take the second set and led 4-1 in the final set. Sara Grozdanovic took the first set in her match at No. 6 singles.

NOTES: Northwest’s 20 wins ties for the fourth-most in a single-season in program history

SLU pitcher sets school and A-10 record with 19 strikeouts

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Saint Louis senior right-hander Connor Lehmann set a school and Atlantic 10 Championship game record with 19 strikeouts, but Rhode Island scored twice in the bottom of the 10th for a walk-off, 2-1 victory over Saint Louis in an elimination game at the A-10 Baseball Championship.  Lehmann’s 19 Ks bettered the previous school record of 16, set by Mike Ruhman vs. Westminster in 1996.

The Billikens conclude their season with a 25-30 record. Rhode Island improves to 24-27 with the win.

Bears drop pitcher’s duel. Face elimination Thursday morning in MVC tourney

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Despite a dominant combined mound effort from Davis Schwab and Hayden Juenger, Missouri State dropped a 1-0 pitcher’s duel with Missouri Valley Conference regular-season co-champ DBU Wednesday afternoon on day two of the MVC Baseball Championship at Duffy Bass Field. DBU’s Jordan Martinson (8-3) stifled the Missouri State offense, teaming up with Burl Carraway on a three-hit shutout in the third-straight one-run contest for the Bears and Patriots in MVC Championship play.

Missouri State, which eclipsed a program single-season record with its 35th loss of the season, will face Southern Illinois at 11 a.m.

Wiley takes no-hitter into seventh. Missouri State open MVC tourney with a win

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Logan Wiley started his day with a second-consecutive All-Missouri Valley Conference selection and punctuated it with 8.0 shutdown innings in the Bears’ 7-1 victory over Valparaiso on the opening day of MVC Championship play.

Wiley (5-5) retired 16 straight Valparaiso hitters to begin his afternoon, holding the Crusaders hitless until the seventh inning and striking out eight batters overall in winning his fifth-straight decision. MSU’s offense clicked as well, scoring a pair of second-inning runs to seize momentum, then methodically extending its margin with two-run rallies in the fifth and seventh frames to pull away for its fourth-consecutive win—all over Valpo.

The victory extended the Bears’ (20-34) streak of recording at least one victory in MVC Championship play to 25 straight appearances dating back to the 1994 Valley Tournament. MSU advances to the double-elimination portion of the bracket with an 11 a.m. contest against top seed DBU Wednesday (May 22).

Mules baseball advances to Super Regionals

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Central Missouri Mules Baseball (41-14) will play for their 18th NCAA Division II Regional Championship next week. The Mules advanced to the Super Regional following an 8-5 win over Central Oklahoma Sunday afternoon.

The game actually started at 9 a.m. Saturday morning. After a little more than half an inning of play, the game was suspended until Sunday. The Bronchos had runners on second and third with nobody out before the storm rolled in.  When they resumed on Sunday, UCO drove both of those runners in to take an early 2-0 lead.

The Mules had their first lead in the second. Cole Taylor and Mason Janvrin started the inning with singles. Harrison Schnurbusch drove them both in with a two-out double to center for a 3-2 lead. Central Missouri scored four more in the fourth. Erik Webb put the game out of reach, giving UCM a five-run lead, 7-2, with a deep three-run home run to left.

The Mules will take on Augustana in a best two-of-three series starting Friday, May 24 at 6 p.m. in Sioux Falls. The winner of the series will be the Central Region representative in the Division II College World Series.

Mizzou softball pushes UCLA to the brink. SEMO picks up a win in regional play

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Mizzou Softball (35-25) had its season ended by No. 2 UCLA (49-6), as the Tigers lost the decisive game, 13-1. The game was only forced because the Tigers played their best game of the year staving off UCLA with a 5-1 win over the Bruins. It was only UCLA’s sixth loss all season.  Sophomore CF Brooke Wilmes went 2-4 at the plate in Game One, including a monster home run in the sixth inning to put the game out of reach.  The Tigers got on UCLA freshman pitcher Megan Faraimo early scoring two runs chasing her from the game.

In the deciding game, Bubba Nickles recorded her second five-RBI game as UCLA bounced back from the 5-1 setback to Missouri with a 13-1.

Southeast Missouri (46-18) picked up its second NCAA Regional win in program history when it eliminated Chattanooga (37-17) with a 2-1 victory Saturday afternoon. The Redhawks later fell to the Regional host Ole Miss (39-18), 10-0, ending their magical historic season. For the fifth-straight year, the Ohio Valley Conference representative won at least one game in the NCAA Tournament. SEMO, in its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 20 years and second all-time in program history, finished the Oxford Regional with a 1-2 mark.

Jennies and Tritons look to finish strong at D-II golf nationals. Missouri Western’s Ong in close battle

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UCM Athletics/Kennie Silvestri

The NCAA Championship Golf Tournament rolled on for Jennies Golf Wednesday morning from the PGA National Course in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. The Jennies improved by 11 strokes from day one and are tied for 15th place with a +77, 661 through 36 holes.  Central Missouri doubled up on their number of birdies from round one, scoring eight of them. UCM also has hit par on 88 holes.  Junior Emma Thorngren led the Tritons with an 81, while senior Kaleigh Ashen shaved seven strokes off her score from yesterday, turning in an 84.

Central Missouri and Missouri-St. Louis are tied for 15th.

Shi Qing Ong was tied for 22nd just two shots out of the top-10 after two rounds at the NCAA Division II Women’s Golf Championships at PGA National – Champion Course.

Ong started with three bogeys on the front nine and seven pars, but parred eight of nine on the back to finish 4-over on the day. Through two rounds, Ong was 7-over and knotted up with Kennedy Holtsclaw of the University of Indianapolis for the position. Six competitors were tied for 16th with 6-over scores for the tournament and six more were tied for 10th at 5-over.

UMSL and UCM women struggle in opening round of NCAA golf championships

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The University of Missouri-St. Louis and Central Missouri women’s golf team opened play at the 2019 NCAA DII Championship on Tuesday at the PGA National Champion Course. The Tritons turned in a 335 and sit in 15th place out of the 16 teams that qualified. Central Missouri sits in 16th place having shot a +44, 336.

The teams play another 18 holes on Wednesday before stroke play concludes on Thursday with the final 18 holes. The top eight teams then advance to match play.

Team Leaderboard (top three)
1. Cal State San Marcos, 299
2. Barry, 304
3. Southwest Oklahoma State, 305

Individual Leader
1. Claire Hogle, Cal State Marcos, 69

UMSL Scores
T47. Lucille Lambert, 80
T57. Alesia Gonzales, 81
T75. Emma Thorngren, 83
93. Kaleigh Ashen, 91

UCM Scores
T40. Olivia Sobaski, 79
T57. Rosie Klausner, 81
T86. Emma Solovic, 87
91. Madison Grisham, 89
92. Molly Saporito, 90

Missouri Western’s Shi Qing Ong in top-20 after day one of national tournament

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Shi Qing Ong was 3-over-par in round one at the NCAA Division II Women’s Golf National Championships to tie for 17th at the PGA National – Champion Course.

Ong finished day one on Tuesday just two strokes out of the top-10 with 15 holes of even-par, two double-bogeys and one birdie. She was knotted with 10 other competitors all at 3-over. Cal State San Marcos’s Claire Hogle led the field with a 4-under. Behind her were four competitors at 2-under. The rest of the field was even-par or over.

Shi Qing was 2-over after the front nine, posting eight even-par holes and a double-bogey on No. 14. She started her back nine with a birdie on No. 1, but followed that with a double-bogey before closing out the first round with seven straight pars.

Ong will tee off for round two on Wednesday morning from the PGA National – Champion Course.