KIRKSVILLE, MO. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team dropped two games at Truman State on Sunday in the finale of a four-game Great Lakes Valley Conference series. The host Bulldogs won with a walk-off in the opener, 2-1, and scored three runs in the eighth inning of the nightcap en route to an 11-9 win.
 
The Tritons fall to 23-20 overall, including 7-13 in the GLVC, while the Bulldogs are now 18-24 and 10-10 in the league.
 
UMSL will play a mid-week game at Southern Indiana on Wednesday night before hosting Missouri S&T on Saturday and Sunday in a four-game GLVC series.
 
GAME ONE: Truman 2, UMSL 1
The Bulldogs walked off with a two-out wild pitch in the bottom of the seventh off UMSL reliever Austin Simokaitis.
 
Truman took a 1-0 lead in the second, but UMSL countered in the third with an RBI single from freshman Tom DeCero.
 
The Tritons tallied eight hits, including two each from juniors Nick Ulrey and Jake Beckwith, with each recording a double.
 
Simokaitis was tagged with the loss, walking two in two-thirds of an inning.
 
Senior Kyle Wilson went six innings in the start, scattering seven hits and allowing one run, while walking three and striking out one.
 
GAME TWO: Truman 11, UMSL 9
The Bulldogs scored four unanswered runs en route to the win, including three in the eighth inning to erase UMSL's 8-4 lead after four innings.
 
The Tritons battled back from an early 4-1 deficit with a six-run third inning on five hits, including RBI singles from Beckwith, senior Jose Ortiz, junior Tanner Hudson  and an RBI double from freshman Matt Foster and made it an 8-5 advantage in the fourth on a double play groundout.
 
UMSL's final run came in the seventh as Beckwith drew a bases loaded hit-by-pitch for a 9-7 lead.
 
Hudson finished with two hits as the Tritons tallied 10 as a team. All nine batters recorded at least one hit, while Beckwith finished with two RBIs. Senior JonMichael Weaver scored three runs and had two stolen bases.
 
Junior Zach Lindsay suffered the loss, allowing four runs on six hits and two and two-thirds of an inning.