SPRINGFIELD, MO. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team recorded 16 hits in a 13-4 game one victory at Drury on Saturday as the two teams split a doubleheader. The Tritons scored four late runs, but fell short, 9-7, in game two.
 
The Tritons move to 28-21 overall, including 11-16 in the GLVC, while Drury is now 16-33 and 7-20 in the league. The four-game series concludes tomorrow with a single contest at Noon.
 
GAME 1: UMSL 13, Drury 4
UMSL tallied 16 hits and scored 12 of its 13 runs with two outs. The Tritons also scored multiple runs in four innings, including four in the third.
 
Junior Tanner Hudson recorded four hits, including two doubles, while adding four RBI and scoring three runs. Six different players recorded two hits, including junior Jake Beckwith, who had a pair of doubles. Junior Jake Daily added two hits and two RBI, while senior Jose Ortiz tallied two hits and drew a pair of walks.
 
Senior Kyle Wilson earned the win on the mound, scattering nine hits, while allowing four runs.
 
GAME 2: Drury 9, UMSL 7
UMSL scored three runs in the first inning, two on a pair of  bases loaded walks, but the host Panthers would follow with five in the second inning to ignite a string of nine unanswered.
 
The Tritons got one run back in the seventh on freshman Matt Foster's RBI single before plating three runs in the eighth on an RBI double from freshman Tom DeCero and followed by a two-run double from senior Justin Buskerus, but UMSL would get no closer.
 
Junior Jake Renfrow suffered the loss, allowing eight runs on nine hits, including four for extra base, while walking four. Juniors Zach Lindsay (4.0 innings) and Jon Shanker (0.1 innings) combined for five hits and one run in relief work.
 
Drury finished with 14 hits, while the Tritons recorded nine. DeCero tallied two hits, both doubles, and scored three runs, while Busekrus finished with two hits and two RBI.  
 
Ortiz drew another two walks, moving his season total to 47, which ties the second most in UMSL single season history.