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Mizzou News: Softball falls to LSU, 6-5

By Eric Quackenbush

Oct 3, 2015; Columbia, MO, USA; The Missouri Tigers take the field before the game against the South Carolina Gamecocks at Faurot Field. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 3, 2015; Columbia, MO, USA; The Missouri Tigers take the field before the game against the South Carolina Gamecocks at Faurot Field. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports /
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Last night, Missouri softball fell to LSU, 6-5, in the battle of  Tigers. While the final score suggests a close game, it was anything but, until a late Mizzou rally.

A late rally brought Missouri to within one run to tie the game, but a costly out left the tying run on base, and ended the game for Mizzou. The Tigers return to Columbia, and await Sunday night’s NCAA Selection Show at 10:00 PM.

Former Missouri baseball shortstop, Ryan Howard, is happy with the start of his professional career in San José. Howard, who now plays for the San Francisco Giants’ farm team, hopes to carry on the rich tradition in San Fran.

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More news announced earlier Wednesday, stated that Missouri was recently recognized with a new SEC legend, Dave Silvestri, a shortstop from 1986-1988 for the Tigers.

"Dave Silvestri is one of the greatest shortstops ever to play for the Missouri Tigers during his career from 1986-88. A native of St. Louis (Parkway Central), Silvestri was a first-team all-American in 1987 and ’88, and was a member of the U.S. Olympic team that won the gold medal at the Seoul Summer Games in 1988. He was also all-Big Eight and all-District V in 1987-88, and was named to the Big Eight all-Tournament team in 1988. Silvestri appears in the top-10 of 29 all-time statistical categories at MU, and his career batting average of .379 is fourth in school history. He still holds 10 game, season or career records for the Tigers. Drafted by the Houston Astros, he’s played at the major league level with the New York Yankees, Montreal Expos and the Texas Rangers. His first National League hit was a run-scoring pinch-hit single against his hometown St. Louis Cardinals, at Busch Stadium, in 1995. He was induced into the Mizzou Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997."

Meanwhile, on the back-end of Missouri athletics, Missouri basketball’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) fell just short of the threshold of 930, to avoid NCAA penalties.

Under former head coach Kim Anderson, Missouri basketball’s APR was at 976.

Factors that determine a team’s APR, include players who are retained but are academically ineligible, or players who leave early before their eligibility is exhausted.

More great news for Missouri’s new football facility, as the athletic department received a seven-figure gift for the new football facility, from an anonymous donor. To date, Missouri has received $47.5 million in donations toward its goal of $100 million.

While he’s worked hard at securing funding for the new football facility and overseeing all of Missouri’s athletic teams, Athletics Director Jim Sterk aspires to make ‘Braggin’ Rights’ bigger.

Sterk spoke about goals to renew and create a larger rivalry between Missouri and Illinois in both basketball and football.

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