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WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- The Washburn Ichabods were topped by the No. 2 ranked Central Missouri Mules in the first two games of a four-game series on Saturday in Warrensburg. The two teams will wrap up the pair of twinbills on Sunday afternoon. The Ichabods fell in the opener 6-0 and lost the nightcap 11-2.

In the opener, the Mules (29-3, 22-2 MIAA) jumped on the board with solo runs in the second and third innings to take a 2-0 lead and added four more in the fifth off Ichabod starter Dustin Holthaus (4-2) who allowed five earned runs scatter five hits. The Mules' Brooks Martin struck out 12 Washburn batters with three walks in the win improving to 7-0 on the season. Vincent Vieyra recorded his fifth double of the season and Travis Ice, Cameron Kasel and Thomas Holiday each had singles for the Ichabods.

The nightcap saw the Mules break open a scoreless tie in the fourth inning with two runs. Washburn (12-13, 11-11 MIAA) tied the score at 2-2 in the top of the sixth. Thomas Holiday tripled to right center to lead off the inning and scored on a ground out by Andy Petz. Dane Simoneau then drew a walk and moved to second on a single by David Wade. Simoneau was sent home by a since up the middle by Vieyra. However the Mules took the lead for good with a four-run sixth inning while adding one in the seventh and four more in the eighth to take the 11-2 win. Raul Guevara (3-2) took the loss in six innings of work. Holiday finished 3 for 4 with a runs scored and Wade and Vieyra each had two hits.