ST. LOUIS – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team dropped the finale of its four-game series against No. 13 Quincy 11-2 on Sunday afternoon at the UMSL Baseball Field. The Tritons drop to 21-21, 14-10 GLVC while the Hawks move to 31-9, 19-5 GLVC.

Quincy took the early lead scoring a pair of runs on three hits in the first inning. Luke Napleton drove in Gino D'Alessio with a single through the left side of the infield for the first run of the contest. With two out, Austin Simpson blooped a single into shallow right scoring Dustin Dupont.

The Hawks added another run in the third as Simpson scored on Cole Erickson's fielder's choice ground out to first.

The Tritons got on the board in their half of the third on Braedon Stoakes two out home run to left.

Quincy regained its three-run lead in the fifth. Simpson led off the inning with a ground-rule double to right center, advanced to third on a groundout and scored on Brock Boynton's two-out single through the right side of the infield.

The Hawks scored three runs on four hits in the sixth. Dupont led off the inning with a single to right and went to third on Napleton's double down the left field line. Lance Logsdon drove in Dupont with a sacrifice fly to left. With two out, Zach Parks lined a two-run single to right center scoring Napleton and Nolan Wosman.

Quincy tacked on two more in the seventh on Napleton's two-run single to left scoring Boynton and D'Alessio.

UMSL got one of those runs back in the seventh. Bryce Kulinski led it off with an infield single to short. He stole second and went to third on Stoakes single to left. Stoakes and Kulinski pulled off a double steal as Stoakes took second and Kulinski swiped home.

The Hawks scored their final two runs in the eighth. Dupont drove in the first run with a bloop single down the left field line and then Napleton hit a sacrifice fly to center that scored D'Alessio.

The Tritons had seven hits in the contest and were led by Stoakes with two while Kulinski, Brandon Olion, Jake Isaacs, Justin Simard and Carson Holin had one hit each.

Nick Torres took the loss allowing seven runs on 11 hits with a strikeout in 5.1 innings pitched to fall to 3-4 on the season.

UMSL begins a four-game series at Missouri S&T on Friday (April 28) at 2 p.m. at the Ballpark at S&T.