ST. LOUIS, MO. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team lost a 9-6 decision at Maryville in game one a Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader, but rebounded for a 9-4 win in the nightcap to garner the split on Wednesday.
 
UMSL moves to 12-7 overall, including 7-7 in the GLVC, and snapped a six-game losing streak with the game two victory. Maryville moves to 11-16 and 4-10 in the league.
 
Junior Justin Busekrus tallied four hits, including a pair of doubles, and finished with two RBIs and two runs scored, while junior Jarret Clark added four hits and three runs scored. Junior Dominic Orlando finished with three hits and four RBIs as the Tritons outhit the Saints, 27-19, in the two games combined.
 
UMSL is scheduled to host Drury on Friday and Saturday in a four-game GLVC series.
 
GAME 1: Maryville 9, UMSL 6
Both teams recorded 13 hits, but the Tritons stranded 13 runners.
 
Maryville scored three runs in the second for the early advantage, but UMSL knotted the score in the fifth, taking advantage of three Saints errors with senior Dylan Fieth accounting for two of the runs on a single.
 
However, the tie was short-lived as Maryville reclaimed the lead at 7-3 with a four-run bottom of the fifth.
 
Junior Justin Busekrus doubled to left center in the sixth to get one run back, but Maryville added a pair of insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth.
 
UMSL rounded out the scoring in the seventh with a Zach McKenney RBI walk and a Daniel Seddon sac fly.
 
Busekrus went 3-for-5 at the plate, while Clark, senior JJ Kinnevan and sophomore Chris Mathes all had two hits.
 
Senior Matt Meyer suffered the loss, allowing six runs, including four earned, on seven hits in four and one-third of an inning. He also struck out three and walked five.
 
GAME 2: UMSL 9, Maryville 4
A four-hit, three-run sixth inning gave the Tritons a 6-4 lead they would not relinquish en route to the win behind RBI singles from Clark and Orlando and an RBI triple from sophomore Jake Beckwith.
 
UMSL added three insurance runs in the seventh inning before finishing with 14 hits. Orlando recorded two hits and four RBIs, while Clark and Beckwith each finished with two hits and two runs scored.
 
Busekrus put UMSL on the board in the first inning with an RBI groundout, while Mathes made it 2-0 in the second with an RBI single.
 
After Maryville tied it in the third, Kinnevan drove in junior Cody Spotanski for the go-ahead run, but the Saints would erase UMSL's 3-2 lead in the fifth inning scoring a pair of unearned runs on a two-out double following a Tritons error for the 4-3 lead.
 
Junior Austin Simokaitis picked up the win in three innings of relief work, allowing two runs – his first of the season – on two hits. Senior Alex Piontek went three innings in the start, striking out four, while scattering four hits and giving up two runs.