ST. LOUIS – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team took both ends of its doubleheader to complete a four-game series sweep of Kentucky Wesleyan on Monday afternoon at Panther Park in Owensboro, Ky. The Tritons won the opener 7-4 and took game two 21-8.

UMSL improves to 5-3 while the Panthers fall to 0-7.

Dane Stevenson tied a single game school record for hits with five in the nightcap and Andrew Buescher was one RBI shy of tying the school game record of 10 finishing with nine in game two.

Game 1 - UMSL 7 Kentucky Wesleyan 4
KWC came out swinging in the opener scoring four runs on four hits off Triton starter Nate Zyzda.

UMSL got two of those runs back in the second. Logan McIntyre led off the inning with a single. With one out Zach Beatty bunted up the first base line and the throw went down the right field line. McIntyre came all the way around to score and Beatty ended up at third. Cameron Hailstone drove in Beatty with a ground out to short.

The Tritons got another run in the fourth. Logan Mantz led off the inning with a walk and advanced to third on Beatty's single to left. With one out, Hailstone drove in Mantz with a ground ball to short.

UMSL took advantage of three Panther errors in the seventh to take a 6-4 lead. Justin Simard and Braedon Stoakes reached on back-to-back throwing errors to start the frame. Simard scored all the way from first on a throwing error on a bunt from Stoakes to tie the game 4-4. Stoakes scored on Barrett Rose's single to right to give the Tritons the lead. Beatty drove in the final run of the inning with a single to center scoring Buescher.

UMSL added an insurance run in the ninth. Buescher led off the inning with a double and later in the inning, Stevenson, running for Buescher scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Jordan Aguallo.

After KWC put up those runs in the first, Triton relievers Shane Kearbey, Brady Krile and Trent Anderson combined to hold the Panthers to just five hits over the final eight innings. Kearbey allowed three hits and struck out two in four innings pitched. Krile struck out five and allowed one hit and a walk in his 3.1 innings of work to pick up his first win of the season and Anderson recorded the final two outs to notch his second save of the year.

The Tritons outhit the Panthers 10-9 in the contest and were led by Beatty with three hits while Rose added two more.

Game 2 – UMSL 21 Kentucky Wesleyan 8
KWC jumped on top in the bottom of the first without the benefit of a hit. With one out, Nick Wimber, walked, stole second and scored from second on a wild pitch.

UMSL answered with four in the second and four more in the third. Stevenson drove in the tying run with a single to center and Rose brought home the go-ahead run with a sac fly to left. Buescher drove in the final two runs in the second with a single to left.

Stevenson drove in his second run of the contest with an infield single to third scoring Mantz. Beatty later scored on a wild pitch to make it 6-1. Stoakes brought home Stevenson with a sac bunt back to the mound and Kameron Laskowski drove in Hailstone with a single to left.

The Tritons added two more in the fifth. Laskowski doubled home Stoakes to make it 9-1 and Buescher grounded out to second to score Rose.

The Panthers cut UMSL's lead in half scoring four times in the fifth. The first two runs scored on bases loaded walks, the third one on a sac fly to center and the final on a throwing error by McIntyre.

UMSL scored six runs in the sixth highlighted by Buescher's grand slam to right.

KWC added three runs in its half of the sixth on a two-run homer from Wimber and an RBI single from Braxton French.

The Tritons put the game out of reach in the seventh scoring five times highlighted by back-to-back home runs from Buescher and Bryce Kulinski.

UMSL outhit the Panthers 18-8 in the nightcap and had six players record at least two hits led by Stevenson.

Dustin Hagens picked up the win giving up five runs, four earned, on four hits while striking out 10 to even his record at 1-1.

The Tritons are back in action on Friday (March 1) hosting Saginaw Valley at 1 p.m. at the UMSL Baseball Field.