ST. LOUIS, MO. – The No. 18 ranked University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team earned an 11-0 win over Maryville on Saturday in the first of two games as the teams wrapped up their four-game series. The Saints took the nightcap, 7-6.
UMSL is now 14-5 overall, including 2-2 in the GLVC, while Maryville is 11-12 and 2-2 in the league.
The Tritons travel to Bellarmine for a pair of games on Monday and Tuesday before hosting Southern Indiana on Wednesday afternoon.
GAME 1: UMSL 11, Maryville 0The Tritons used 11 hits and drew six walks to score 11 runs in the win. Junior catcher
Nick Ulrey tallied four of those hits.
UMSL scored in all but two of the seven innings played, plating four runs in the third inning and three in the seventh.
Senior
Justin Hellman and freshmen
Tom DeCero and
Matt Foster all had two RBIs each. DeCero picked up one RBI on a solo home run in the fifth inning to make it 6-0.
Junior
Jake Renfrow tossed the complete game shutout, striking out seven, while scattering six hits.
GAME 2: Maryville 7, UMSL 6Maryville scored four unanswered runs between the sixth and seventh innings en route to the win, while fending off a Tritons run in the top of the ninth.
In a back and forth game, the Saints scored two first inning runs, but the lead was erased with single runs in the third and fourth innings by the Tritons. Freshman
Gian Gomez brought in a run with an RBI on a fielder's choice, while DeCero's RBI single tied the game at 2-2.
Maryville re-took the lead in the bottom of the third before two runs by the Tritons in the top of the sixth gave UMSL a 4-3 lead on RBI singles from DeCero and Foster.
The Saints then scored twice in the bottom half of the frame and tacked on two more in the seventh.
Maryville out-hit UMSL, 13-10. DeCero finished with two hits and two RBIs, while Foster, Ortiz and senior
Dominic Orlando all added two hits each.
Freshman
Jackson Bond suffered the loss in two innings of relief work, allowing two runs on six hits.
SERIES NOTES: Nick Ulrey hit a team-best .571 (4-of-7), while Jose Ortiz had a team-best five hits… UMSL out-hit Maryville, 35-29, and outscored the Saints, 22-18.