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ST. LOUIS, MO. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team scored the game-winner on a Rockhurst error in the eighth inning to record a 2-1 victory over the Hawks in the nightcap. Rockhurst took the opener, 3-2, as the two teams opened a four-game Great Lakes Valley Conference series Saturday.
 
The series concludes tomorrow with another doubleheader slated for a 12 p.m. start.
 
UMSL moves to 7-9 overall, including 5-5 in the GLVC, while Rockhurst is now 7-13 overall and 6-4 in the league.
 
Senior Philip Landwehr went 4-for-5 at the plate in the two games, recording two doubles and a triple.
 
Rockhurst 3, UMSL 1 (9 innings)
Rockhurst jumped out by scoring one run on three hits in the first inning and plated a second off an UMSL error in the second.
 
Landwehr put the Tritons on the board in the third inning with a triple to right center that scored junior Shane Brinker, pulling UMSL within 2-1.
 
Rockhurst tacked on another run in the fourth inning for the final score.
 
Senior Zach Standefer took the loss, allowing all three runs, while giving up 13 hits. He tied a season-high seven strikeouts.
 
The Hawks tallied 15 hits in the win, while UMSL recorded nine. Landwehr, Brinker and senior Justin Lois all had two hits each.
 
UMSL 2, Rockhurst 1 (8 innings)
Freshman Chris Mathes scored the game-winner on a Rockhurst two-out error in the bottom of the eighth inning. Mathes reached on a single before stealing second and advanced to third on a fly ball to right field. He then scampered home as junior Dylan Fieth's grounder to the Rockhurst shortstop was bobbled.
 
The Hawks used a leadoff double in the second inning to score their run, while junior Daniel Seddon drove in Landwehr in the third inning to tie the score.
 
Mathes and Seddon finished with two hits each, while senior Jonathan Rosario improved to 3-0 on the mound with the complete game victory, scatting eight hits.