KANSAS CITY, MO. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team used three home runs in the second of two games at Rockhurst on Friday post a 9-6 win, securing the split against the Hawks, as the two teams opened a four-game GLVC series. Rockhurst won the opener, 10-9, on a walk-off.
 
UMSL is now 11-20 overall, including 5-9 in the GLVC, while the Hawks are 18-17 and 6-8 in the GLVC. The two teams will play another doubleheader tomorrow at Noon.
 
The Tritons totaled 31 hits on the day.
 
GAME 1: Rockhurst 10, UMSL 9
How it Happened
- A one-out sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth gave Rockhurst the win.
 
- UMSL led 5-1 after two and a half innings, taking advantage of four early Rockhurst errors.
 
- The Hawks then scored six unanswered, taking a 7-5 lead in the fifth.
 
- After freshman Jarrett O'Brien got one run back in the seventh with an RBI groundout, sophomore Tom DeCero used an RBI single to tie it in the eighth, while freshman Dylan Hoelscher followed with a two-run double as the Tritons surged back on top, 9-7. However, a two-run home run in the bottom of the frame knotted it up at 9-9.
 
Statistically Speaking
- UMSL finished with 19 hits to Rockhurst's 14, but the Tritons left 12 runners on base. All nine UMSL batters recorded at least one hit.
 
- DeCero recorded four hits, two RBIs and scored three runs.
 
- Senior Nick Ulrey and junior Jake Morsch added three hits each.
 
GAME 2: UMSL 9, Rockhurst 6
How it Happened
- Back-to-back home runs from junior Cole McDonald and DeCero in the second inning tied the game at 2-2 before an RBI double from senior Tanner Hudson in the third drove in the go ahead run.
 
- Two more runs came home in the fourth to make it 5-2, including McDonald on Hoelscher's sac fly and DeCero on redshirt freshman Derrick Freeman's RBI single.
 
- Hoelscher recorded his second RBI in the sixth inning with a single down the left field line to extend the advantage to 6-2 before three runs came home for Rockhurst in the bottom of the frame.
 
- Junior Cooper Vinz knocked out his third home run of the season in the top of the seventh to give UMSL some insurance runs.
 
Statistically Speaking
- UMSL recorded 12 hits, including two each from Freeman, Hudson, DeCero and senior Jake Beckwith.
- Senior Jacob Renfrow earned the win, working six innings in the start. He allowed five runs on nine hits and struck out three. Renfrow improved to 3-2 on the mound with his second straight victory.