Taeg Gollert set a new career doubles record for Missouri State and helped the Bears tie their best home win streak with a 15-10 victory over Western Kentucky on April 17 at Hammons Field.
The achievement is significant for both Gollert and the team. Gollert’s performance highlights his individual success, while the team’s ongoing winning streak at home underscores their strong season.
Gollert went 4-for-4 at the plate, was hit by two pitches, and broke a previous tie with Brayden Drake by hitting his 68th career double in the sixth inning. He added two more doubles in the game to match Missouri State’s single-game record for doubles, an accomplishment achieved now 25 times in school history. His four hits also tied his personal best, bringing him to a total of 70 career doubles and leaving him just eight extra-base hits short of another school milestone.
Missouri State (25-10 overall, 13-3 Conference USA) recorded its most hits in a game in fifteen years with twenty-one and improved to a perfect sixteen wins at home this season. This ties their program-best sixteen-game home winning streak that was last set between April 2015 and March 2016.
Western Kentucky (19-19, 6-10) led until back-to-back six-run innings from Missouri State turned the game around. Key moments included RBI contributions from Caden Bogenpohl, Curry Sutherland, Brant Kragel, Carter Bergman, Max Knight—who finished with five RBIs—and additional runs driven in during consecutive innings.
Brock Lucas earned the win on relief pitching duties by striking out five batters across nearly three innings. All nine starting Bears players recorded hits; Bryce Cermenelli extended his hitting streak to eighteen games with three hits; Bogenpohl and Sutherland each had three-hit games; Logan Fyffe, Bergman, and Knight each contributed two hits.
The series will continue Saturday afternoon.
