QUINCY, Ill. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team dropped a high scoring affair at Quincy 16-15 in the series finale between the two teams at QU Baseball Stadium on Sunday afternoon in Quincy, Ill. The Tritons are 11-13, 5-3 GLVC while the Hawks are 19-4, 8-4 GLVC.

UMSL jumped out to the early lead with two runs in its half of the first. Mitch Bonczkowski brought home the first run with an RBI single to right center scoring LJ Randle. Later in the inning, Garrett Strenger brought home Justin Terhaar with a groundout to short.

It remained 2-0 until Quincy scored six runs in its half of the fourth highlighted by a two-run single back up the middle off the bat of Jace Figuereo.

The Tritons came right back with four runs in the top of the fifth. Ethan Landis and Terhaar each had RBI singles and Bonczkowski tied it with a two-run home run to right.

The Hawks retook the lead with a solo home run in the bottom of the fifth and added another run in the sixth on a sacrifice fly.

UMSL rallied scoring seven times in the seventh to grab a 13-8 lead. Bonczkowski hit his second home run of the contest to make it 8-7. Justin Simard singled down the left field line scoring Strenger and Brandon Johnson Randle added a two-run single to make it 12-8. Randle scored the final run of the inning on a throwing error by the catcher.

The Tritons got another run in the eighth on an RBI double from Cade Grevengoed to make it 14-8.

Quincy put together its second big inning of the contest in its half of the eighth scoring eight times to take a 16-14 lead. Bryon Blaise tied the game with a two-run single to right center. Ari Fivelson put the Hawks in front with a groundout to second scoring David Broughton and Ben Dahlof added an insurance run with a single up the middle.

UMSL had the go-ahead run with one out in the ninth but couldn't regain the lead as the only run in the inning scored on an error by the third baseman allowing Terhaar to score from third.

The Tritons had 16 hits in the contest and were led by Bonczkowski who went 4-6 at the plate with two home runs, four runs batted in and two runs scored. Strenger and Terhaar each had three hits in the contest. Matt Devoy took the loss giving up three runs on two hits and a walk and didn't record an out in his outing.

UMSL returns home on Friday (March 27) hosting Southwest Baptist in the start of four-game series with a single game at 2 p.m. at the UMSL Baseball Field.