ST. LOUIS, MO. – After recording just seven hits yesterday, the University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team belted out a season-high 18 on Sunday in a 14-6 win over Bellarmine.
 
The Tritons improve to 6-8 overall, while Bellarmine dips to 12-8.
 
UMSL had three different players with three-hit days, including senior Nick Ulrey, who had a solo home run; juniors Cooper Vinz and Jacob Monti, who each added two RBIs. Freshman Jarrett O'Brien added two hits and two RBIs and also reached base twice on a walk.
 
As a team, UMSL was issued six free passes, with five of those coming in the fifth inning, in which the Tritons scored four runs on just one hit. Those runs gave UMSL an 11-1 lead. The Tritons scored in the first five innings and in six of eight frames.
 
Senior Kevin Smith improved to 2-1 on the mound, allowing just one run in six innings of work. He struck out eight, walked three and scattered seven hits. Bellarmine finished with 14 hits.
 
Senior Tanner Hudson led off the scoring with a two-run homer in the first inning, while O'Brien made it 4-0 in the second with a two-run single.
 
RBI singles from junior Cole McDonald and Monti in the third made it 6-1 before Ulrey's long ball in the fourth.
 
An RBI walk to junior Jake Morsch, a wild pitch and a two-run single from Vinz extended the advantage to 11-1 in the fifth.
 
Three more runs came home in the seventh, including RBIs from McDonald and Monti.
 
UMSL returns to action Wednesday at Southern Indiana in a 3 p.m. nonconference contest before returning home to open GLVC play on Saturday and Sunday against Maryville in a four-game series.