Mexico finished Saturday with two standout wins.

One day after sustaining their first defeat in a 4-3 walkoff loss at Eldon, the Bulldogs beat Class 4 No. 9 Southern Boone 12-6 and then earned their fourth shutout of the season with a 9-0 victory over Owensville in the Southern Boone Invitational in Ashland. 

Mexico (7-1) had a 10-0 lead over Southern Boone (4-3) going into the bottom of the sixth inning on Saturday morning. The Eagles scored six runs in the bottom half of the sixth inning and had three runs in with two runners in scoring position with no outs. Drew DeMint was brought in to pitch and retired the next two batters before eventually ending the inning. 

Austin Maxwell was 2-for-4 with two RBI and a double; Chance McCarty was 2-for-5 with two RBI and a double; Landon Hilderman finished 2-for-3 with two RBI; Cooper Bledsoe added two RBIs; DeMint went 3-for-5 with one RBI and a double; and Brayden Arnold finished 2-for-2 with two walks, one RBI and a double. Brady Fox, Jaydon Eldridge and Sam Ryan each had two hits to make eight Bulldogs with multi-hit games.

Fox allowed two earned runs on six hits and two walks with three strikeouts in five innings.

Kaden Benne and Cooper Rowe combined to allow only two hits against Owensville (1-3). Benne pitched six innings with four strikeouts, two hits and two walks.

Eldridge went 2-for-3 with four RBI, McCarty added two RBI; Fox, Benne and Arnold each had one RBI; and DeMint picked up a triple.

Mexico hosts North Central Missouri Conference and district foe Kirksville (2-3) at 5 p.m. Tuesday in both teams' conference opener.