ST. LOUIS – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball matched its season-high with 13 runs scored as it rallied from a 6-3 deficit to defeat Truman State 13-7 to gain a split in the four-game weekend series on Saturday at the Truman Baseball Park. The Tritons improve to 16-17, 9-7 GLVC while the Bulldogs drop to 14-19, 4-12 GLVC.
UMSL took an early 2-0 lead with single runs in the first two innings.
Leighton Keller scored on
Brandon Olion's double with one out in the first for the first run of the contest and
Mitchell Green led off the second inning with a home run to left.
Truman took the lead scoring four runs on five hits in its half of the second. Tyler Tieman scored the tying run on Dakota Spicer's single to first. Grant Beck gave the Bulldogs the lead with a single to center that scored Will Fromm. Tal Dean made it 3-1 with a groundout to first that brought home Spicer. Luke Turner drove in the final run of the inning with a single to center.
The Tritons got one of those runs back in the fourth.
Bryce Kulinski led off the inning with a walk, advanced to second on a wild pitch, stole third and scored on Keller's ground out to second.
Dylan Thompson put Truman in front 5-3 in the fifth. He singled to left center to drive in Turner and an error on the play allowed Holden Missey to advance to third. Tieman made it 6-3 with a single to right that scored Missey.
UMSL drew closer in the sixth on
Jake Isaacs single up the middle that scored Kulinski.
The Tritons regained the lead in the seventh scoring six runs on six hits as they sent 11 batters to the plate.
Kameron Laskowski drove in
Justin Simard with a double to right center to make it a one-run game.
Carson Holin drove in Laskowski with the tying run with a one-out single through the right side of the infield.
Andrew Buescher gave UMSL the lead with a three-homer to right center to make it 9-6. Isaacs scored the final run of the inning on a wild pitch with the bases loaded.
The Tritons tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the eighth on a two-run single from Keller that scored Buescher and Holin.
The Bulldogs scored a run in their half of the eighth to pull within 12-7 on Beck's second RBI hit of the contest.
UMSL's final run of the contest came in the ninth as Buescher drove in his fourth run of the contest with a single to left that scored Laskowski.
The Tritons had a season-high 21 hits in the contest as Keller, Holin, Buescher and Isaacs had three hits apiece. Simard, Laskowski and Green had two hits each.
Dylan Wobbe picked up his second win of the season by tossing the final four innings and allowing one run on four hits.
UMSL hosts Maryville in a non-conference game on Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the UMSL Baseball Field. Tuesday's game kicks off a stretch that sees the Tritons playing 13 of their final 17 regular season games at home.
