ST. LOUIS, MO. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team posted a 10-6 victory over Drury in the second of two games on Sunday to earn the Great Lakes Valley Conference series win over the Panthers, which garnered a 5-4 game one victory in Great Lakes Valley Conference.
 
The Tritons move to 15-8 overall, including 10-8 in the GLVC, while Drury is now 13-13-1 and 9-8-1 in league play.
 
UMSL returns to the field on Tuesday with a pair of nonconference games at Kentucky Wesleyan.
 
GAME 1: Drury 5, UMSL 4
Drury rallied for the win by scoring the game's final four runs, two on a home run in the fifth and two in the sixth, including the game-winner on an Austin Simokaitis  balk.
 
Simokaitis suffered his first loss of the season (2-1) and was charged with the one run on three hits in one and two-thirds of an inning. He also walked two and struck out one. Senior AJ McElderry went five and one-thirds of an inning in the start, striking out a season-best nine, while scattering seven hits and allowing four runs.
 
Both teams finished with 10 hits with junior Dominic Orlando going 2-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs, while junior Jarret Clark and senior Daniel Seddon each added a pair of hits.
 
Clark used a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the first to tie the game at 1-1.
 
The Tritons led off the fourth inning with four straight hits, including an RBI double down the right field line by sophomore Jake Beckwith and a two-run single to right field from Orlando.
 
GAME 2: UMSL 10, Drury 6
Sophomore Andrew Bicklein earned his first career victory in his second career start. He went five innings and allowed three runs, including two earned, on five hits, while striking out six and walking two.
 
The Tritons recorded 13 hits, including three from Beckwith, who also scored two runs. Junior Justin Busekrus added two hits, including his team-leading fourth home run in the sixth inning which also scored senior Shane Brinker for a 9-3 lead. Brinker, Clark and senior JJ Kinnevan also tallied two hits each. Clark has now reached base in 16 straight games and is on a nine-game hitting streak.
 
Drury plated an unearned run in the first inning, but a six-hit, five-run fourth inning put the Tritons on top, 6-1.
 
SERIES NOTES: UMSL outhit Drury, 42-32, and recorded 11 doubles… Jarret Clark, Jake Beckwith and JJ Kinnevan all had six hits… Beckwith and Shane Brinker scored five runs each… Beckwith posted a slugging percentage of .714 behind two doubles and a triple… UMSL's pitching staff limited Drury to .267 hitting, while the Tritons batted .344.