Cowboys Drop Series Finale To Missouri

Monday, March 30

Stillwater, Okla.

1:00 PM

Oklahoma State University

Missouri

March 30, 2009 | Cowboy Baseball

STILLWATER, Okla. Â— Oklahoma State had its season-long five-game winning streak snapped Monday as Missouri kept the 15th-ranked Cowboys from a series sweep with a 1-0 win at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium.

The loss dropped OSU to 19-8 on the season, including a 3-3 mark in Big 12 Conference play, and marked the first time the Cowboys have been shut out on their home field since April 29, 2007 against Texas.

Junior Tyler Lyons was the tough-luck loser on the mound to fall to 4-2 on the season. The southpaw tossed his first complete game of the season and fifth of his career Â— all of them coming in Big 12 play Â— and allowed just one run on five hits. He struck out four and issued only one walk.

The Cowboys managed six hits, two of those by Tyrone Hambly, but Missouri (13-14, 4-5) used nine different pitchers to keep OSU off the scoreboard.

OSU's best chance to score came in the third inning. With two outs, Micheal Dabbs doubled into the left-center field gap. Hambly followed with a single, but Dabbs was nailed at home plate on a relay throw by Mizzou third baseman Kyle Mach.

The game's lone run came in the sixth. Mach led off the frame with a single and advanced to third on a single by Ryan Lollis. With runners on first and third and one out, Trevor Coleman send a grounder up the middle. OSU second baseman Davis Duren got to the ball, but the Cowboys could only manage a force out at second. Mach scored on the fielder's choice to give the Tigers a 1-0 advantage.

Ryan Clubb earned his first win of the season for the Tigers with a scoreless inning of work, while Brad Buehler came on in the ninth and retired OSU in order for his second save of the season.

OSU returns to action Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. when the Cowboys host Tabor (Kan.) College at Reynolds Stadium. The Pokes will be back to Big 12 action this weekend at home against Texas.