Mizzou Baseball didn’t just finish a sweep on Sunday. It finished a statement. Behind six scoreless innings from left‑hander Brady Kehlenbrink and a four‑homer afternoon from the lineup, Missouri rolled past UIC 10–0 in seven innings at Taylor Stadium, closing out a four‑game sweep and extending its winning streak to 12 games.
Sunday’s finale followed the same pattern: early power and career-high pitching from the starter Brady Kehlenbrink that never gave UIC a chance to breathe.
Missouri jumped ahead
in the first inning when Jase Woita turned on a pitch for a two‑run homer, his fourth of the season. The Tigers blew the game open in the third with three straight solo shots, all with two outs. Kaden Peer started it with a towering 433‑foot blast just inside the right‑field foul pole at 110 mph off the bat. One pitch later, Cameron Benson sent a 415‑foot shot over the right‑field wall. On the very next pitch, Pierre Seals cleared the left‑field fence to make it 5–0.
Benson’s home run streak has expanded to three games and that’s not the only streak that kept going for the Tigers. Tyler Macon’s on-base streak now sits at 16 games, including last season, despite his 14-game hitting streak concluding on Sunday.
After the third, Kehlenbrink took complete control. The sophomore lefty delivered the best outing of his career, striking out 11 batters and allowing three hits across six innings.
“Back‑to‑back shutouts… that’s big for us,” Tigers head coach Kerrick Jackson said. “Our guys are starting to understand how to attack the zone. When you can run out arms that compete like that, you give yourself a chance every night.”
Missouri added another run in the fourth on a Woita RBI single, then put the game out of reach with a four‑run fifth. Singles by Benson and Seals set up Mateo Serna, who drove in a run with a single up the middle. A dropped sacrifice fly brought home another, and with the bases loaded, Kam Durnin punched a two‑run single to right to stretch the lead to 10–0.
The run-rule was clinched with Luke Fricker shutting the door in the seventh, ending a historic and run filled weekend for the Tigers. Offensively, the pulse of the Tigers is very much active, as this win marked fifth run rule victory for Missouri on the season.
“We played clean,” Jackson said. “No free bases, no extra outs. When we don’t beat ourselves, we’re a tough team to play against…“We’re starting to figure out who we are, it’s about stacking days. Just stack days.”
Missouri has now stacked 12 in a row, and Sunday’s win may have been its most complete performance yet. They’ll look to keep up their hot streak against Southern Indiana, on Tuesday, Mar. 10 at 6 p.m. at Taylor Stadium.
