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ST. LOUIS, MO. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team lost both games of a doubleheader against visiting Quincy on Friday afternoon in the start of a four-game Great Lakes Valley Conference series. The Hawks won the opener, 8-3, before winning the nightcap, 2-1, in eight innings.
 
The Tritons slip to 13-15 overall, including 11-10 in the GLVC, while Quincy improves to 14-17 and 10-9 in the league.
 
The two teams will close out the series with a 12 p.m. doubleheader tomorrow.
 
Game 1: Quincy 8, UMSL 3 (9 innings)
Quincy scored four runs in the third inning, including three unearned, and added two on a two-run homerun in the fourth for a 6-0 lead en route to the win.
 
UMSL got on the board in the bottom of the fourth when senior Justin Lois scored on senior Tyler Bunge's double down the right field line. The Tritons added two more in the fifth to pull within 6-3 as Lois singled and advanced to second on a Quincy error, allowing seniors Phil Landwehr and Joe Wieczkowski to cross the plate.
 
Senior Zach Standefer took the loss, working eight innings. He allowed four earned runs on 10 hits, while striking out four.
 
Wieczkowski and Lois had two hits each for the Tritons, which tallied five as a team.
 
Game 2: Quincy 2, UMSL 1 (8 innings)
The Hawks scored the-winner in the top of the eighth as Gavin Meyer led off with a single. He was then sacrificed to second before scoring on a one-out single off reliever Dan Droege.
 
UMSL plagued itself by leaving 12 runners on base in the game, including six in the final three innings.
 
Pinch hitter Jose Oritz led off the bottom of the eighth with an infield single to represent the tying run and found his way to third after a sacrifice and a groundout before the game ended on another groundout.
 
Bunge gave the Tritons an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first with an RBI single, while Quincy knotted the score in the fourth when Kory Wisdom led off with a single, recording the Hawk's first hit of the game and later scored.
 
Senior Jonathan Rosario took the loss despite a solid outing in seven and one-thirds of an inning, allowing just four hits, while striking out three.
 
Senior Paul Richmond recorded two of UMSL's six hits. Quincy also tallied six hits.