ST. LOUIS, MO. – Junior Tom DeCero delivered the game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the eighth to help the University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team to a 9-8 win over William Jewell in the second of two games on Friday to open a four-game GLVC series. The visiting Cardinals won the opener, 6-1.
 
DeCero finished the day with four hits, three of which came in the game two win.
 
UMSL and William Jewell will play another doubleheader tomorrow at Noon. Those games will again be played on the campus of Lindenwood University.
 
Records: UMSL (11-14, 3-3 GLVC), William Jewell (12-10, 4-2 GLVC)
 
Game 1: William Jewell 6, UMSL 1
The Tritons scored their run in the second inning on one of three William Jewell errors in the game. The two-out miscue with freshman John Hilpert at bat allowed fellow freshman Josh Shoemaker to come home from third. Shoemaker reached with a single for the Tritons' first hit. 
 
William Jewell then scored seven straight, including two runs in the third and fourth innings and one each in the fifth and sixth frames. 
 
Redshirt sophomore Jason Stuckmeyer retired the final nine Cardinal batters, tossing three and one-thirds of an inning in relief work. He struck out three and walked just one. 
 
Both teams recorded seven hits. Redshirt junior Brian Seymour led UMSL with two. William Jewell also took advantage of eight walks and left 10 runners stranded. 
 
Game 2: UMSL 9, William Jewell 8 (8 inn.)
William Jewell jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first inning on just two hits, but took advantage of three walks, while also stealing a pair of bases. 
 
UMSL then struck for six runs in the second inning on three hits, including a two-run single from Seymour, an RBI single from senior Jake Morsch and a go ahead two-run homer from senior Cooper Vinz. 
 
The Cardinals scored the next two runs, including one in the third and one in the fourth, for a 7-6 advantage. 
 
Both teams then traded home runs. Sophomore Jarrett O'Brien delivered a two-run shot in the bottom of the fifth for an 8-7 lead, but William Jewell followed with a solo shot in the top of the sixth to even it at 8-8. 
 
UMSL left a combined five runners on base in the sixth and seventh innings. The Tritons were at first and second with no outs in the sixth and had the bases loaded in the seventh with two outs. 
 
Seymour scored the winning run on DeCero's two-out heroics.
 
UMSL out-hit William Jewell, 12-10. DeCero and Morsch had two hits each, while Seymour and Vinz each tallied two hits and two RBI.
 
Junior Matt Graser earned the win in eight innings of relief work. He allowed four runs, including three earned, on nine hits, while striking out three and walking three.