COLLEGE STATION, Texas – University of Missouri baseball rode a dominant all-around performance to its third-straight victory, a 10-1 rout of Texas A&M that completed the Tigers’ first Southeastern Conference road series sweep in eight years Sunday afternoon at Blue Bell Park.
For the third straight game in the series, the Tigers (16-35, 3-24 SEC) turned in a shutdown mound performance, as Wil Libbert and Josh McDevitt combined to strike out 10 hitters while holding the Aggies to two hits. Libbert (3-3) allowed just one hit – a Caden Sorrell home run in the fourth inning – and fanned five over 5.0 innings to earn his first SEC victory, before McDevitt shut out A&M on one hit over a career-best 4.0 frames to earn his first save as a Tiger.
Mizzou received offensive contributions from up and down its batting order as well, led by the duo of Kaden Peer and Jackson Lovich, who combined to go 6-for-8 with five RBIs. Lovich set the tone for the afternoon with a leadoff home run in the first, before Peer delivered a two-out, RBI-single to cap the two-run rally in the Tigers’ first turn at-bat.
Lovich, who came within a single of hitting for the cycle, sparked the Tigers’ third-inning rally as well, driving a triple to left-center to set up the first of Pierre Seals’ two run-scoring singles. Following Sorrell’s homer in that trimmed the Mizzou lead to two runs, Seals struck again in the fifth, lining another RBI single to right to make it a 4-1 game.
Libbert was in control throughout his five innings and the Tigers defense gave the redshirt freshman a lift by turning rally-killing double plays in the first and fifth innings. The lefty logged back-to-back strikeouts to end the second, then punched out two more Aggies in the fourth. McDevitt entered in the sixth and faced just one hitter over the minimum in a career-high four-inning effort.
Lovich came through with perhaps the biggest blow of the game to cement the outcome, drilling a two-run double as part of Mizzou’s three-run sixth that stretched the margin to six runs. Peer took his turn to inflict damage in the seventh, delivering the first of three consecutive run-scoring hits by the Tigers in another three-run rally that effectively put the game out of reach.
Peer reached base safely in all five of his trips to the plate, going 3-for-3 with a walk and his 18th hit by pitch of the season, while Lovich finished 3-for-5 with three RBIs.
TIGER NOTEBOOK
- With the victory – Mizzou’s fourth in a row over Texas A&M – the Tigers now have a 42-55-2 all-time record against the Aggies.
- Mizzou’s SEC road series sweep is the first for the Tigers since May 18-20, 2017 at Tennessee – a span of 34 three-game conference series.
- The victory also gives MU its first three-game win streak of the 2025 season and the Tigers’ first since a three-game sweep of Florida, April 5-7
- Mizzou out-hit the Aggies by a 15-2 margin, giving the Tigers 38 total hits in the series, as well as 24 double-digit hit totals this season.
- Tiger pitching permitted just eight Aggie runs on 11 hits in the three-game series.
- Lovich extended his reached base streak to 21-straight games with his first-inning homer – his 22nd as a Tiger.
- Lovich also registered his team-leading 17th multi-hit game of the year with his second straight three-hit performance.
- Seals (2-for-4) drove in two runs and finished with his ninth multi-hit performance as a Tiger.
- In 17.0 combined innings in the series, the Mizzou bullpen allowed just one unearned run to the Aggies.
UP NEXT
Mizzou returns to Taylor Stadium Thursday to open its final SEC home series of the season against Mississippi State with a 6 p.m. contest.
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