JOPLIN, Mo. – Blake Freeman hit a home run to tie the game in the top of the ninth but after a double play, a Missouri Southern solo shot walked off Northeastern State 10-9.
 
After two low-scoring affairs in the Saturday doubleheader there were a combined 25 hits and six homers in the finale.
 
NSU jumped ahead in the first inning on a two-out Collin Klingensmith homer to right field. In the bottom half Jonathan Smithey, who tied the NSU record with 34 starts, used a diving catch by centerfielder Reid Fehr and double play ball to maintain the lead.
 
The RiverHawks used two infield singles and two sacrifices to put two more on the board in the second inning.
 
In the bottom half, Missouri Southern evened the score 3-3 on four hits with two outs.
 
Collin Klingensmith walked to lead off the third and got to third base with just one out to score on a Jaxon Phipps sacrifice fly to left field. White hit the first NSU long ball of the game with two outs on a 1-2 pitch that he drove over the right center wall.
 
The Lions took their first lead off the game in the bottom of the third on four singles and a triple in succession to run the RiverHawks starter.
 
Ryan Summers threw 2.1 scoreless frames before NSU jumped back ahead in the sixth. White led off with an infield single and advanced to second on a Connor Bell walk. Fehr singled to right field before Brayden Rodden drew a bases-loaded walk. Klingensmith then put a ball in play that plated two on the MOSO's shortstop's error.
 
With NSU up 8-6, the Lions again responded in the bottom half with two outs. Following a hit by pitch and walk the MOSO three-hole hitter homered to right center.
 
In the ninth, Freeman delivered a homer to right field on the second pitch he saw with one out. White singled up the middle two batters later and Nathan Norris singled to third on the seventh pitch of his at-bat. They would be stranded with the score knotted headed to the bottom of the ninth.
 
After a leadoff single, Dakodah Jones induced a double play ball to cut down the runner. After jumping ahead 1-2 the Lions cleanup batter put a ball over the right field wall to give Missouri Southern the walk-off win.
 
The RiverHawks' program record seven-straight series wins streak came to a halt and Jones took the loss after 2.2 innings of work. He did not allow a hit until the ninth frame.
 
White was 4-5 with three runs scored, and three other NSU batters had multi-hit games. Blaze Brothers pushed his reached base streak to 29 games and White was 9-13 in the series.

The teams now have identical records in the MIAA at 17-7. NSU is 20-10 overall.
 
Northeastern State will play its final 10 games at home and welcome Southern Nazarene to Thomas C. Rousey Field Tuesday at 2 p.m.