LIBERTY, MO. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team lost 7-3 and 7-5 decisions at William Jewell on Saturday as the Tritons opened their final GLVC series of the season.
 
Records: UMSL (9-38, 8-24 GLVC), William Jewell (20-27-1, 14-18 GLVC)
 
Game 1: William Jewell 7, UMSL 3
Five unanswered runs, including two in the fifth and three in the sixth, helped the Cardinals to the win.
 
Redshirt junior Derrick Freeman had given UMSL a 2-1 lead in the top of the fifth with a solo home run.
 
The Tritons also scored in the third on an error and in the seventh on an RBI sac fly from junior Jackson Dvorak.
 
Redshirt junior Koltyn Schilly finished 3-for-5 at the plate with two runs scored, while freshman Brandon Olion added two hits. UMSL finished with seven, while William Jewell tallied 10.
 
Game 2: William Jewell 7, UMSL 5
The Cardinals rallied for the win with a three-run seventh inning.
 
UMSL held a 3-0 lead after the first with two runs scoring on errors and the other coming on a Dvorak RBI fielder's choice before William Jewell pulled ahead, 4-3, in the fourth.
 
Olion's sac fly evened the score at 4-4 in the fifth, while an RBI single from freshman Mitchel Becher put the Tritons back on top, 5-4.
 
Becher finished with two hits, while fellow freshman Keaton Bruegenhemke also tallied two hits, including a double.
 
UMSL was out-hit, 12-6.
 
Up Next: UMSL closes out the 2019 season tomorrow with a single game at Noon.