ST. LOUIS – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team dropped the first game of its four-game series with Missouri S&T 6-1 on Thursday afternoon at the UMSL Baseball Field. The Tritons fall to 29-18, 20-13 GLVC while the Miners improve to 25-21, 15-17 GLVC.

The game was scoreless until the fifth as UMSL's Zach Haygood and S&T's Dylan Mollett matched zeroes through the first four innings.

The Miners struck first with a run on a hit and a walk in the fifth. Sam Monroe led off the inning with a walk and went to third on Tommy Ruether's one-out double down the left field line. Denton Damgaard drove in Monroe with a groundout to short.

The Tritons evened the score with a run in its half of the fifth. Jake Isaacs led off the inning with a single, stole second with two out and scored on Barrett Rose's double off the glove of the center fielder to tie it. UMSL had a chance to take the lead but Andrew Buescher lined out to left to end the frame.

S&T sent seven batters to the plate in the sixth scoring three runs on four hits. Tyler Prince drove in the go-ahead run with a single to right center and advanced Garrett Weiner to put runners on the corner with one out. Monroe laid down a squeeze bunt scoring Weiner and then Nick Krodinger singled to right center to bring home Prince.

The Tritons had the tying run at the plate with two out in the seventh but Rose struck out swinging to end the inning.

The Miners extended their lead in the ninth on Jake Bell's two-run double to center scoring Carter Bither and Drew Baugus.

UMSL was held to eight hits in the contest with Isaacs, Buescher and Bryce Kulinski recording two each. Haygood took the loss giving up four runs on seven hits with five strikeouts in six innings pitched to fall to 7-2.

The Tritons and S&T continue their four-game series with a doubleheader on Friday afternoon starting at noon at the UMSL Baseball Field.