EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team split its doubleheader against Davenport on Monday afternoon at Roy E. Lee Field at Simmons Baseball Complex in Edwardsville, Ill. The Panthers took the first game 10-4 while the Tritons won the nightcap 2-1. UMSL is 6-5 on the season while Davenport is 5-1.
Game 2: UMSL 2 Davenport 1
The second game was scoreless through three innings as the Tritons
Bryce Nicolay matched the Panthers James Geshel were locked in a pitcher's duel.
Davenport broke the scoreless deadlock as Vince Hardy led off the fourth inning with a long home run to left center for his first roundtripper of the season.
UMSL rallied in the fifth to take the lead.
Brady Robertson led off the inning with a walk and with one out he advanced to second on
Cooper Blythe's hit-and-run single through the left side of the infield.
Barrett Rose put the Tritons in front hitting a double over the head of right fielder Coletrane Rubner in the gap in right center scoring Robertson and Blythe.
The Panthers got the tying run to third with two out in the seventh but Michael Tchavdarov grounded out to short to end the game.
Jacob Arndt followed Nicolay and
Nate Kemp out of the bullpen throwing three scoreless frames to pick up his second win of the season.
The Tritons had four hits in the contest led by Rose with two.
Game 1: Davenport 10 UMSL 4
Davenport scored in seven of the nine innings in the opener as it jumped out to a 3-0 lead after three-and-a-half innings of play. UMSL rallied scoring three in its half of the fourth on a two-out RBI single from
Luke Saxton and two-run double to center courtesy of
Noah Tomaras.
The Panthers scored single tallies in the fifth and sixth innings to regain the lead then added two more in the seventh on a two-run home run from Dylan Pawwenski to make it 7-3. The Panthers added another in the eighth and two in the ninth.
The Tritons got one of those runs back in the eighth as Saxton scored on a passed ball to cut the lead to 8-4.
UMSL was outhit in the opener 14-7 and was led offensively by Saxton and
Braedon Stoakes with two hits each.
Garrett Brunstetter took the loss in game one allowing four runs on six hits with four strikeouts in three innings pitched out of the bullpen.
The Tritons return to the diamond hosting Walsh in the first of a four-game weekend series this Friday starting at 2 p.m. at the UMSL Baseball Field.
