Liberty North wins Class 6 baseball championship. Scores from Missouri state tournaments
While the Liberty North girls soccer team was sweating out a state championship win in overtime — to complete a perfect season — the baseball team was putting the finishing touches on a decisive 9-3 victory over Francis Howell in the Class 6 state championship game.
Indeed, Liberty North earned not one but two Missouri state championships on Saturday.
Liberty North (34-7) scored two runs in each of the first three innings and led Francis Howell (31-11) 6-1 after the third. The Eagles scored two more runs in the fifth to go up 8-1 and added another insurance run in the seventh.
Andrew Agnew (4 IP, 1 ER), who is headed to Missouri S&T, and Kansas signee Ty Wisdom (3 IP, 2 ER) combined to take the Eagles to the finish line.
Wisdom, who had two RBIs in the game, doubled in a run in the first inning. Bo Jonas, an Oklahoma baseball commit, followed with an RBI-double to score Wisdom from second and put Liberty North up 2-0.
Jackson Downing, who will play college baseball at Arkansas State, had an RBI-single in the second, and Jack Lemasters, a Washburn signee, scored two runs and recorded two RBIs throughout the evening.
Here is a look at the Missouri state baseball results for all classes. All MSHSAA state semifinal and title games took place at Sky Bacon Stadium in Ozark.
State semifinals/finals: schedule
CLASS 6
Francis Howell 9, Jackson 8
Liberty North 2, Nixa 1
Third-place game:
Jackson 2, Nixa 1
Championship game:
Liberty North 9, Francis Howell 3
CLASS 5
Festus 2, Ft. Zumwalt South 0
St. Francis Borgia 4, Webb City 0
Third-place game:
Ft. Zumwalt South 4, Webb City 3 (11 innings)
Championship game:
Festus 8, St. Francis Borgia 1
CLASS 4
John Burroughs 5, Fulton 1
Springfield Catholic 3, Excelsior Springs 2 (8 innings)
Third-place game:
Excelsior Springs 6, Fulton 5
Championship game:
John Burroughs 9, Springfield Catholic 4
CLASS 3
Wednesday’s semifinals:
South Callaway 9, Portageville 4
Licking 4, Barstow 1
Thursday’s third-place game:
Portageville 3, Barstow 2 (12 innings)
Thursday’s championship game:
Licking 3, South Callaway 1
CLASS 2
Tuesday’s third-place game:
Chaffee 1, Maysville 0
Tuesday’s championship game:
Ash Grove 13, Salisbury 3
CLASS 1
Tuesday’s third-place game:
Cooter 7, vs. Community 0
Tuesday’s championship game:
St. Elizabeth 13, So. Nodaway 3
