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Box Score

JOPLIN, Mo. (Mar. 23, 2016)-- Seven hits yielded just one run for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside baseball team on Wednesday evening, falling 12-1 to 19th-ranked Missouri Southern State University at Turner Field to close out the Rangers' weeklong tour of the Show Me State.
 
The nationally-ranked and host Lions (18-5) pushed across a pair of runs in the bottom of the first before adding single runs in each of the next two innings, staking an early 4-0 lead.
 
The Rangers (3-11) led off the fourth with a outfield single from Zach Cunningham. Cunningham mobilized to third on a DJ Peltz double down the left field line before scoring on a Bobby Neylon groundout, cutting the gap to 4-1. UW-Parkside had the tying run at the plate with Peltz and Zach Thompson both in scoring position before a strikeout cut the rally short.
 
Missouri Southern padded its lead with a four-run outburst in both the fifth and sixth innings to record the 12-1 win.
 
Cunningham and Jake Kolasinski led the Rangers at the plate, both finishing two-for-three.
 
Josh Serio suffered the loss, striking out three in two innings of action while Kyle McCulloch earned the win, lasting four innings and fanning four.
 
The Rangers are back on the diamond on Friday, opening Great Lakes Valley Conference action with a twinbill against nemesis Lewis University. First pitch in Romeoville, Illinois is slated for 12 p.m.