ST. LOUIS, MO. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team earned a split against Quincy on Friday as the two teams opened up a four-game Great Lakes Valley Conference series. The Tritons won the nightcap, 3-2, after the Hawks took the opener, 10-6.
UMSL was limited to just two hits in the win, but got a complete game victory from junior
Matt Graser.
The two teams will wrap up the series with another doubleheader tomorrow set for a Noon start.
Records: UMSL (14-15, 6-4 GLVC), Quincy (17-10, 6-4 GLVC)
Game 1: Quincy 10, UMSL 6
A home run in each of the first three innings, including a three-run shot in the third, helped the Hawks to an early 5-2 lead before extending it to 6-2 in the fifth.
UMSL then scored the next four and knotted the game at 6-6 in the seventh on redshirt sophomore
Derrick Freeman's two-run triple. A Hawks error and an RBI single from senior
Jake Morsch in the sixth got the Tritons within 6-4.
Quincy then used a four-hit eighth inning combined with two UMSL errors to pull in front, 9-6.
The Hawks out-hit the Tritons, 15-9, in a game that had a combined nine errors.
Freshman
Josh Shoemaker went 3-for-5 at the plate with a pair of doubles.
Senior
Alex Oltmann went seven innings in the no-decision start, allowing just two earned runs on nine hits, while striking out five.
Game 2: UMSL 3, Quincy 2
After a 24-hit first game, the second game featured just 10 hits, including eight by Quincy.
The Tritons were limited to two hits, but they capitalized on seven walks.
Two of UMSL's runs came in the first inning as a Morsch double followed a pair of lead off walks, while in the sixth, an error and two walks loaded the bases for senior
Jacob Monti, who grounded out, but got a run home.
Quincy got on the board in the top of the sixth and then in the seventh, loaded the bases with two outs and pushed a run across on a passed ball.
Graser worked himself out of the jam for the complete game victory, in which he struck out four and walked none.
In addition to Morsch's double, redshirt freshman
Keaton King had a single.