Mizzou Links for Thursday, March 23

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Play Mr. Brightside? How about these Missouri Baseball Tigers?

With an 8-3 win over kU on Wednesday night at Kansas City Royals’ Kauffman Stadium — technically called a kU home game, Mizzou improved to 17-3 overall on the season and winners of six straight.

FRESHMAN starting pitcher Logan Lunceford was absolutely outstanding — going six scoreless innings with nine strikeouts.

At the plate, the Tigers got it started in the Top of the 2nd with a two-run HR by UNLV transfer Hank Zeisler for a 2-0 lead.

Mizzou added on with a RBI single by Justin Colon in the Top of the 4th to take a 3-0 lead.

However, the Mizzou bullpen struggled with a lot of walks and kU was able to tie it up at 3-3 with a run in the 7th and two runs in the 8th.

In the Top of the 9th, Mizzou answered with five runs — and Hank “HIM” Zeisler broke the game open.

With the win over the Jayhawks, Mizzou snapped kU’s previous four-game winning streak with the meetings between the two teams played in Kansas City.

All in all, it was a good mid-week rivalry win for Steve Bieser’s club — and it was good to see DRF in attendance.

It doesn’t get any easier for Mizzou however as the Tigers go on the road this weekend to face 20-2 South Carolina — who comes in ranked No. 11 in D1Baseball. The Gamecocks lost 6-2 to Charlotte on Tuesday night so they will be plenty motivated to bounce back in huge SEC East showdown series.

Baseball wasn’t the only diamond sport that played on Wednesday night — as Mizzou Softball improved to 20-11 overall on the season with a 7-1 win over Drake to stay unbeaten in mid-week games.

For more, of course, Karen Steger has the recap on Rock M Nation.

Onto the links. M-I-Z!

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Yesterday at Rock M

• The Revue from Josh Matejka: Mizzou can’t stick the landing, but it doesn’t diminish the story
• Recruiting Reset from Brandon Kiley: Tionne Gray is here to help re-establish ‘D-Line Zou’
• Game Recap from Karen Steger: Mizzou Softball remains undefeated in midweek tilts, beats Drake 7-1.

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More Links:

(KCStar)

• From the KC Sports Beat podcast with Vahe Gregorian and Sam McDowell: What’s next for Dennis Gates’ excellent first season in Columbia?

(Columbia Missourian)

• From Maddie Orr: MU softball beats Drake 7-1 ahead of Auburn series
• From Zachary Bott: MU men’s swim and dive compete in Day 1 of NCAA Championships
• From our Brandon Haynes: Five MU gymnasts earn All-SEC accolades
• From Ethan Burke: Five-run ninth gives MU baseball win over kansas

(Columbia Daily Tribune)

• From Matt Stahl: How Dennis Gates brought Mizzou basketball back and restored excitement back in a single year

(Miscellaneous/Tweets)

• Mizzou Softball Head Coach Larissa Anderson after the win over Drake:

• One year ago, Desiree Reed-Francois officially hired Dennis Gates.

• Thank you, Seniors.

• Mizzou Basketball has scheduled their 2022-2023 End of Season banquet on April 5th, 6 p.m. CST at Mizzou Arena. You can register on MUTigers.com.

• Congrats to the Mizzou Gymnastics squad, who have landed five gymnasts on the All-SEC team. Read more here on MUTigers.com.

• And a congrats to senior Adalayna Hufendiek who was named to the SEC Community Service Team

• Pro Day coming soon for Mizzou Football

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