ST. LOUIS, MO. – Junior
Tanner Hudson recorded three hits and three RBIs on Friday as the University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team opened its final GLVC series of the season with a 6-3 win at Drury.
The two teams will play a doubleheader tomorrow before wrapping up the year on Sunday with another single contest.
UMSL improves to 27-20 overall, including 9-16 in the GLVC, while Drury dips to 15-32 and 6-19 in the league.
Hudson drove in the Tritons' first two runs in the first inning with a single to left field and closed out the scoring in the ninth inning with an RBI double for the final score.
Senior
Dominic Orlando added two hits, including an RBI double that made it 3-0 UMSL in the first inning.
The Panthers got two runs back in the third, but in the fifth freshman
Matt Foster used a sac fly to make it 4-2.
Drury pulled within 4-3 in the seventh before junior
Nick Ulrey drove in Foster in the eighth. Ulrey also had a two-hit night.
Senior
Kurt McGuire improved to 8-2 on the mound, tossing seven innings. He scattered seven hits and allowed all three Drury runs, while also striking out four and walking only two.
Senior
Austin Simokaitis picked up his 15
th save of the season, one shy of the program's single season record.