COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Baseball entered the ninth inning on Friday evening with a one-run lead but was unable to hold on for the win. Kerrick Jackson’s crew fell to Purdue Fort Wayne 9-7 in the first contest of its four-game set. After trailing for the first eight innings of the game, Helias alum Trevor
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Baseball worked around a bases loaded jam in the ninth inning on Wednesday evening at Taylor Stadium to secure a 5-4 win over Lindenwood. The Tigers entered the final frame with a two-run lead, and although they surrendered one run to the Lions in that inning, Mizzou held on to capture
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team wiped out a nine-run Northern Kentucky lead over the course of three innings, but could not complete the comeback in the series rubber match on Sunday. The Norse beat the Tigers 16-15 to drop MU to 5-6 overall. Head coach Kerrick Jackson and company took a two-run lead
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team absolutely demolished Northern Kentucky, in run-rule fashion, 28-10 in game two of a three-game set. With the win, the Tigers and the Norse will head to a rubber match on Sunday. Coming into Saturday’s win, head coach Kerrick Jackson’s group only averaged about four runs per game. However,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team lost its second-straight game at Taylor Stadium, on Friday night, 3-1 to Northern Kentucky. First year head coach Kerrick Jackson has not won a home game, yet, in his debut season. Northern Kentucky’s three-run home run in the first inning, along with a lights out performance on the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks spoiled Mizzou baseball’s home opener, on Tuesday evening, with an 8-3 victory over the Tigers. The loss marks the first time that the MU has lost a home opener since 2015. First-year head coach Kerrick Jackson and company are now 4-4 on the season. The 3-6 Redhawks
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Andy Humphrey, co-host of KTGR’s ‘The Big Show,’ in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The pair touched on everything from Mizzou men’s and women’s basketball, as well as the start of the Tiger baseball season. The MU men’s basketball team has still yet
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A new era of Tiger baseball is just 15 days away, as Mizzou prepares to open up the season under first-year head coach Kerrick Jackson, on Feb. 16 on the road against Cal Poly. Jackson was tabbed as MU’s head coach in June of 2023 and hit the ground running from there.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics revealed that it is working on a tentative plan to develop facilities that would impact every sport on campus and would also feature a reimagined north end zone at Faurot Field, on Monday evening. The master plan is set to be presented to the UM Board of Curators on Nov.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou baseball has announced the 2024 SEC schedule, which features 10 weekend series, including five three-game sets at Taylor Stadium. In year one under new head coach Kerrick Jackson, the Tigers will square off against six ranked opponents. Mizzou will open league play with a trip to Fayetteville to take on Arkansas, March
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou baseball coach Kerrick Jackson made the final hires for his 2024 coaching staff on Wednesday. MU Athletics officially announced the additions of a director of player personnel and a director of player development. Jose Carballo will serve as that director of player personnel. He will come to Columbia after a five-year
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Parson and Mizzou coaches, athletes and supporters gathered at Faurot Field on Tuesday afternoon for a ceremonial signing of Missouri’s amended name, image and likeness (NIL) bill. In addition to Parson’s signature, Mizzou men’s basketball player Sean East got to add his name on the bill, as representative of all
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CLEVELAND, Ohio. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou pitcher Rorik Maltrud agreed to an undrafted free agent deal with the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday. The deal made him the fifth Tiger to find his way to the pros in 2023. Maltrud came to Mizzou as a transfer from New Mexico State in 2023. In his one season in
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OAKLAND, Calif. (KMIZ) Mizzou baseball standout Luke Mann heard his name called in the 2023 MLB Draft on Tuesday afternoon. The Oakland Athletics drafted Mann with the No. 406 overall pick in the 14th round. The St. Louis native came back for his fifth season in the black and gold in 2023 and what a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou pitcher Chandler Murphy became the third Tiger to be drafted in the 2023 MLB Draft on Tuesday. Murphy was taken in the 12th round with pick 363 by the Tampa Bay Rays. Murphy spent one season at Mizzou finishing with a 4-5 record and a 5.47 ERA. His best outing
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NEW YORK, N.Y. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou pitcher and Fatima alum Austin Troesser is going to the next level. The New York Mets drafted Troesser with the No. 135 overall pick on Monday. The 21-year-old played for the Tigers for three seasons, after graduating from Fatima High School. He finished his MU career with a 4.98
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CHICAGO, Ill. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou pitcher Zach Franklin got drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 2023 MLB Draft on Monday. The righty went with the No. 299 overall pick in the 10th round. Franklin came to Columbia as a sixth-year transfer from Western Carolina. In his Tiger career, he tallied 59 strikeouts over
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Less than four weeks after taking over the Mizzou baseball team, head coach Kerrick Jackson has added MU fall of famer Tim Jamieson and two others to his staff. On top of the addition of Jamieson, Jackson will also be assisted by Jabari Brown and former Tiger outfielder Bryson LeBlanc. Jamieson returns to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates landed his first 2024 commitment on Thursday in four-star guard Antonio “T.O.” Barrett. The 6-foot-5 Oklahoma native helped lead Edmond North High School to a 27-2 overall record this season and a Class 6A state championship. Barrett is planning to transfer to Link Academy in Branson,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Mizzou’s new baseball coach, Kerrick Jackson, in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. Jackson comes on the show, just 22 days after he was hired to take the helm of the Tiger baseball team. He said he’s hit the ground running, so far, and
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