Bernie, Missouri - The Bernie Mules baseball team under Coach Marcus Massey faced a tough opponent on Thursday afternoon.  Down 4-1 in the bottom of the 7th, the Mules kicked into gear to score 3 runs to tie and then scored one in the bottom of the 8th for the hard earned win!

Senath-Hornersville scored a run in the top of the 1st inning.  Blake Beacham (junior) answered with a solo homer in the bottom of the 2nd for Bernie.

The Lions then scored three runs in the 3rd until the 7th when the Mules earned a single, a walk, a hit batsman and a throwing error on Senath filled the bases.  Wyatt Barnett (sophomore), Bernie, squeezed the third run home in the bottom of the 7th.  Dalton Hobgood (junior) drove in the tying run sending the game into extra innings.

Jayce Burck (senior) who led the Mules with 3 hits, singled with one out in the 7th.  He also stole second and then scored from there when Alex Guzman's (senior) grounder up the middle was thrown wild to first base.

Wyatt Barnett (sophomore) pitched the first 7 innings, allowing 5 hits and 4 runs, three earned.  He struck-out 9 and walked 5.

Corbin Hunt (senior) got the win in relief, pitching the 8th inning and allowing zero hits, while striking out two.

Barnett had 2 hits and Dalton Hobgood had one hit.

The Mules (2-1) host Holcomb and Bloomfield on Saturday, August 27th in their annual Wood-Bat Round Robin.