ST. LOUIS, MO. – Junior redshirt Derrick Freeman was 3-for-3 at the plate and also drew two intentional walks, while recording two RBIs and scoring two runs on Sunday as the University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team earned a 9-8 victory over Bellarmine in the finale of a three-game GLVC series.
 
The Tritons won two of those three games to claim the series.
 
Freeman finished the series with six hits, including two triples, eight RBIs and five runs scored.
 
Records: UMSL (4-13, 3-3 GLVC), Bellarmine (10-9, 3-3 GLVC)
 
UMSL, which has won four of its last five games, tallied 15 hits in the win with junior Jackson Dvorak going 3-for-5, while seniors Brian Seymour and Tom DeCero, junior Andrew Hayden and sophomore Josh Shoemaker adding two each.
 
The game saw each team swap leads until the Tritons scored two in the fifth to tie it at 7-7, including the equalizer on a Shoemaker RBI single, and then two in the sixth to pull ahead, 9-7, with Dvorak driving in freshman Mitchel Becher on an RBI single before Hayden scored on a wild pitch.
 
UMSL used a five-run fourth inning to turn a 4-0 deficit into a 5-4 lead. Freeman led off that scoring with a two-run triple.
 
Redshirt sophomore Justin Evers picked up the win in relief, going two and two-thirds scoreless innings, scattering just one run.
 
Sophomore Ryan Siverly picked up the save, allowing just one hit and one walk in an inning.
 
Up Next
UMSL hosts McKendree in a GLVC doubleheader on Wednesday at 11 a.m.