QUINCY, ILL. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team lost a pair of one-run games at Quincy on Saturday in the start of its final Great Lakes Valley Conference four-game series of the year. The Hawks won by scores of 5-4 and 2-1.
 
UMSL slips to 25-15 overall, including 17-15 in the GLVC, while the Hawks maintained control of their top position in the West Division standings, improving to 34-14 overall and 25-9 in the league.
 
The two teams will close out the series tomorrow with another doubleheader starting at Noon.
 
GAME 1: Quincy 5, UMSL 4
After falling behind 5-0 after six innings of play, the Tritons nearly pulled off the comeback, but stranded the tying and winning runs in the bottom of the ninth.
 
Senior Daniel Seddon started the rally in the seventh inning with his first career home run, while a throwing error in that same frame helped trimmed the deficit to 5-2. A two-out RBI single from senior Dylan Fieth in the eighth inning brought UMSL within 5-3
 
Then in the ninth, the Hawks committed a two-out error, allowing senior Jarret Clark to reach and advance to second before coming home on junior Dominic Orlando's RBI single down the left field line. A wild pitch and a Seddon single up the middle put runners on the corners, but closer Teddy Rule got sophomore Kevin Smith to strike out to end the game.
 
Orlando finished 3-for-5 at the plate as the Tritons out-hit their hosts, 12-10. Clark, Seddon, Smith and Fieth all finished with two hits.
 
Senior A.J. McElderry was tagged with the loss, allowing all five runs on 10 hits in five and two-thirds of an inning. He also struck out four and walked four.
 
All five Quincy runs came on three home runs.
 
GAME 2: Quincy 2, UMSL 1
Senior JJ Kinnevan used a solo home run in the third inning for the early 1-0 advantage, but the Hawks knotted it up with a two-out RBI single in the fifth before scoring the game-winning run in the bottom of the sixth with at two-out solo home run, their fourth of the day.
 
UMSL again left two runners on base to end the game in the top of the seventh.
 
Kinnevan accounted for two of the Tritons' six hits, while Quincy tallied five off senior Zach Sedlacek, who took the loss in the complete game effort. He also issued five walks and struck out two.