ST. LOUIS, MO. – Junior John Michael Weaver recorded a bases loaded RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to help the University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team to a 5-4 win over Truman State in the second of two games on Monday to close out a four-game Great Lakes Valley Conference series. Truman State won the opener, 10-0, as the team's split the series with two wins each.
 
UMSL moves to 23-13 overall, including 17-13 in the GLVC, while Truman State is now 28-16 and 19-13 in the league.
 
The Tritons will wrap up their home schedule on Wednesday with a nonconference doubleheader against Lincoln before concluding the regular season with a four-game GLVC series at Quincy on Saturday and Sunday.
 
GAME 1: Truman 10, UMSL 0
After single runs in the third and fourth innings, the visiting Bulldogs plated eight runs in the final two frames, including five in the seventh.
 
Senior Luke Hayes suffered the loss in six innings of work, allowing five runs on nine hits, while walking three and striking out four.
 
Junior Jarret Clark went 3-for-3 at the plate to lead the offense, which was limited to five hits.
 
GAME 2: UMSL 5, Truman State 4
Weaver's heroics came with just one out in the ninth with the winning run being scored by freshman pinch runner Kyle Boewe. Senior Daniel Seddon led off with a walk and was replaced on the base paths by Boewe, who advanced to second after senior JJ Kinnevan was hit by the pitch. The two were then sacrificed to third and second, respectively, by junior Justin Busekrus before Weaver knocked the game-winning hit to left field.
 
The game featured lead changes by both teams.
 
Truman jumped out to an early 2-0 start before the Tritons got one run back in the bottom of the second on senior Shane Brinker's RBI single. UMSL then knotted the score at 2-2 in a three-hit fifth inning, including an RBI single from Busekrus.
 
The Tritons took their first lead of the day in the sixth inning on back-to-back RBI singles from Brinker and Seddon, finishing the frame with four hits. However, Truman would score twice in the seventh, including one on an error to even the score at 4-4.
 
UMSL registered 13 hits to Truman's nine with Brinker going 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs, while senior Dylan Fieth was 2-for-4 with a pair of runs scored. Busekrus also finished with two hits.
 
Junior Austin Simokaitis picked up the win in two innings of relief work, scattering just one hit, while striking out two. Junior Kurt McGuire went seven innings in the no decision start, allowing four runs on eight hits, while walking two and striking out seven.