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Box Score 2 ST. LOUIS, MO. – Senior
Cody Garlington was 3-for-6 at the plate, helping the University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team to pair of victories at Maryville on Wednesday evening in Great Lakes Valley Conference action. The Tritons shutout the Saints, 1-0, in the opener, before posting a 6-2 win in the nightcap.
UMSL evens its ledger at 16-16 with the sweep, including 14-10 in the GLVC, which moves the Tritons back into second place in the West Division standings. Maryville slips to 14-20 overall and 10-14 in the league.
UMSL travels to Truman State on Friday and Saturday in a four-game GLVC series. Doubleheaders both days are set for 12 p.m.
GAME 1: UMSL 1, Maryville0 (7 innings)Senior
Joe Wieczkowski's RBI single in the second inning accounted for the game's only run, scored by Garlington, who reached on a two-out double.
Junior
Jose Ortiz finished with two of UMSL's six hits.
Junior
Matt Meyer improved to 3-0 on the mound with the win. He tossed six innings, allowing six hits. Senior
Kyle Dermody worked out of a bases loaded jam in the bottom of the seventh to collect his fourth save of the season.
GAME 2: UMSL 6, Maryville 2 (9 innings)UMSL scored six runs on seven hits, including two from Garlington.
The Tritons scored four unanswered to open the game, including two in the top of the sixth inning. Senior
Paul Richmond used a sac fly to score Ortiz in the first inning and then made it 2-0 in the fourth inning, coming home on senior
Tyler Bunge's RBI double.
Richmond crossed the plate again in the sixth inning on Garlington's RBI single, while Bunge scampered home on a wild pitch for the 4-0 lead.
The Saints got two back in the bottom of the sixth, but UMSL plated two insurance runs in the seventh on a
Justin Lois RBI single and a
Chris Mathes sac fly.
Junior
Chris True was the winner on the mound, scattering seven hits in five innings of work.
Sophomore
Alan Frank tallied the win with four innings of relief work. Frank, who one-hit the Saints in a complete seven-inning game two weeks ago, once again limited Maryville to just one hit, while striking out four.
UMSL recorded seven hits in the win, while Maryville tallied eight.