ST. LOUIS, MO. – Visiting William Jewell took both games on Saturday over the University of Missouri-St. Louis as the teams opened a four-game Great Lakes Valley Conference series. The Cardinals used 24 hits in the game one 17-5 victory before outlasting the Tritons, 6-5, in the 11-inning nightcap.
UMSL dips to 8-14 overall, including 2-4 in the GLVC, while William Jewell improves to 12-11 and 5-1 in the league. The two teams will close out the four-game series tomorrow with another doubleheader scheduled for a 12 p.m. first pitch.
Game 1: William Jewell 17, UMSL 5
How It Happened
- UMSL held an early 3-0 lead, but the Cardinals' bats came to life after three scoreless innings as the guests scored 11 runs between the fourth and seventh innings.
- Senior
Nick Ulrey drove in two of UMSL's first three runs with an RBI single each in the first and second innings with his second making it 3-0.
- William Jewell then scored four unanswered, including three with two outs in the fourth to even the score, before going ahead in the top of the fifth. However, a sac fly from senior
Tanner Hudson in the bottom of the frame evened it back up at 4-4.
- The Cardinals then struck for four runs in the sixth on five hits. UMSL got one run back in the bottom half on freshman
Jarrett O'Brien's RBI single, but another four run inning by William Jewell made it 11-5 after seven.
Statistically Speaking
- William Jewell finished with 24 hits, after recording just one in the first three innings, while UMSL tallied 17.
- Ulrey finished with two hits and two RBIs, while junior
Jake Morsch added a pair of doubles. O'Brien also tallied two hits with an RBI and a run scored.
- Freshman
Brendan Watts suffered the loss in his first collegiate start. After allowing the first two Rockhurst batters to reach, Watts retired 10 straight before a one-out single in the fourth. He allowed eight runs, including five earned, on 10 hits, while striking out two and walking two.
Game 2: William Jewell 6, UMSL 3
How it Happened
-Three consecutive two-out RBI singles from junior
Jacob Monti, Morsch and Ulrey in the bottom of the seventh tied the game at 7-7, forcing extra innings and erasing the 3-0 lead William Jewell had built. Monti's RBI single was UMSL's first hit since the second inning, when the Tritons recorded three hits and loaded the bases with one out, but could not get a run across.
-The Tritons left the winning run at third in the eighth and 10
th innings before William Jewell scored the game-winner on a one-out bases loaded wild pitch. William Jewell then tacked on two insurance runs, one courtesy of an UMSL error and another on an RBI groundout.
- UMSL nearly rallied again in the bottom of the 11
th, scoring two runs - one on an Ulrey RBI single and another on a
Cooper Vinz fielder's choice RBI before leaving runners on the corners to end the game.
Statistically Speaking
-UMSL falls to 1-3 this season in extra-inning games.
-Junior
Jonathan Shanker was tagged for the loss in two innings of relief work. He struck out three, walked one and allowed one run on one hit.
-Both teams finished with 11 hits. Ulrey led the Tritons with two hits and two RBIs.
