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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou sophomore LHP Michael Plassmeyer (St. Louis, Mo.) struck out a career-high nine batters as he pitched Mizzou Baseball to a 7-1 win over Appalachian State Saturday night (March 11) at Taylor Stadium. The win extends Mizzou's win streak to 14 games, matching the longest streak by a Mizzou team since 1981 (both the 2007 and 2008 teams also won 14 consecutive games). The 14-game win streak is also the longest in the nation, tied with Louisville.

Plassmeyer was tremendous on Saturday, allowing just three hits over a career-high 7.0 innings. He struck out nine batters, passing his previous career-high of eight en-route to his third win of the season. He gave up just one earned run in the outing. App State's Colin Schmid took the loss, falling to 2-2 on the year. The Mountaineers fall to 6-8 in 2017. Mizzou scored four runs in the third and three in the sixth to put the game away.

Appalachian State got something going in the top of the second inning as Plassmeyer hit a batter, walked a batter and gave up an RBI single LF Tyler Stroup. The defense turned in a pair of good plays, one on a perfectly-executed wheel play on a sacrifice bunt attempt and then a 6-4-3 double play to escape the frame.

Mizzou exploded for four runs in the bottom of the third, taking advantage of two Appalachian State errors and a pair of two-out, RBI singles – the first from Brett Bond (St. Louis, Mo.) and the next from Trey Harris (Powder Springs, Ga.).

App State threatened in the fourth inning, putting two men on, but two more strikeouts helped Plassmeyer pitch out of the jam. Both teams were kept off the board until Mizzou plated a pair in the bottom of the sixth on sacrifice flies from Chris Cornelius (St. Louis, Mo.) and Connor Brumfield (Columbia, Mo.), extending the lead to 6-1. Mizzou tacked on another run on a wild pitch to extend the lead to 7-1 after six.

RS sophomore Cameron Dulle (St. Louis, Mo.) pitched the final two innings, holding App State off the scoreboard while picking up two strikeouts.

Mizzou will look for the sweep Sunday. A win Sunday would give Mizzou its best start in program history and give the 2017 team sole possession of the longest win streak since 1981. Junior RHP Andy Toelken (Green Cove Springs, Fla.) will get the ball for Mizzou. For all the latest on Mizzou Baseball, stay tuned to MUTigers.com and follow the team on Twitter (@MizzouBaseball) and like the team on Facebook and Instagram (Mizzou Baseball and missouri_baseball, respectively).

Potent Quotables

Head Coach Steve Bieser

On how the decision was made to play a game today despite the snow in the morning…

"Well, first thing I do is get on the computer and pull up the weather report and start trying to figure out how we are going to play a game today. When it's early season like this, especially when you are feeling good, guys are playing well, you want to try and find a way to play. Looking at it, we could drop it back a few hours and have a really good chance to play and things worked out. It didn't get quite as warm as they said it was going to get by game time, but it worked out and we were able to play a ball game. That's exciting for us to kind of stay in that consistent – keeping Plassmeyer on a Saturday and being able to keep that routine going into conference play next weekend."

LHP Michael Plassmeyer

On his start…

"Really just commanded the fastball. I spotted it a little bit. Brett (Bond) definitely helped me out with some calls out there. Mainly just the fastball."

On playing in the cold…

"Coach Bieser said from the get-go last night that we were going to play, so woke up, kind of got ready for it. It's not the ideal conditions, but you have to find a way."

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