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Box Score 2 SPRINGFIELD, MO. – Junior
Zach Sedlacek tossed his third straight complete game victory on Saturday, helping the University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team to a 3-1 victory at No. 22 ranked Drury in Great Lakes Valley Conference action.
After Drury combined for 27 hits in last night's doubleheader sweep of the Tritons, Sedlacek quieted the Panther bats, limiting the hosts to just two hits. He retired the first nine batters he faced and the final 12.
The Tritons then completed the Saturday sweep of Drury by winning the nightcap, 6-2. UMSL improves to 23-19 with the wins, while Drury slips to 33-11 and 24-6 in the league.
Freshman
Jake Beckwith highlighted the offense, going 6-for-9 at the plate with three runs scored.
UMSL returns to the field on Tuesday, hosting Kentucky Wesleyan in a non-conference doubleheader at 1 p.m.
GAME 1: UMSL 3, Drury 1 (7 innings)Offensively, UMSL recorded eight hits, including a 3-for-4 performance Beckwith.
The Tritons jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI sac fly from senior
Tyler Bunge and extended it to 2-0 in the fourth on a two-error frame by the Panthers.
Drury got one run back in the bottom of the fourth, in which both Panther hits occurred.
Senior
Paul Richmond then drove in an insurance run in the fifth inning.
GAME 2: UMSL 6, Drury 2 (9 innings)The Tritons jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning on three hits and two Drury errors. Bunge, senior
Michael Budka and freshman
Chris Mathes all had RBIs.
Drury got one run back in the fifth inning, scoring after three consecutive singles and made it a one-run game in the seventh before a three-run eighth inning by the Tritons with RBIs from Beckwith and senior
Paul Richmond.
Junior
Ben Klaustermeier garnered the win in seven innings of work, allowing 11 hits.
Beckwith went 3-for-5 at the plate, while Budka and senior
Philip Landwehr had two hits each.