April 11, 2010

Baseball Swept by Maryville in Series Finale

ST. LOUIS, MO. – Maryville University closed out a four-game series at the University of Missouri-St. Louis by taking both contests from the home team Tritons Sunday afternoon in Great Lakes Valley Conference action. The Saints won by scores of 10-3 and 9-4.

UMSL falls to 10-26, including 6-14 in the GLVC, while Maryville improves to 9-23 and 5-15 in the league.

The Saints earned the first game victory by scoring nine of their 10 runs with two outs.

Maryville put the first score on the board, plating a two-out run in the top of the second inning and added another two-out run in the top of the third for a 2-0 lead.

UMSL knotted the score at 2-2 in the bottom of the third with an RBI ground out from senior Erik Walk and an RBI double from senior Kenny Bechaud.

Maryville re-took a one-run lead in the top of the fourth and tacked on four runs, all with two outs, in the top of the fifth for a 7-2 advantage. The Saints added another two-run out in the sixth and two more in the seventh.

Junior Matt Horton drove in UMSL’s third run, scoring junior Manny Flores with a double down the left field line in the bottom of the seventh.

Junior Andrew Peterson (0-2) suffered the loss, allowing three runs on eights hits in three and one-thirds of an inning.

The Saints held a 17-8 advantage in hits. Junior Andrew Keating went 4-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored.

Walk singled through the left side to score Horton to even the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the first of game two, but then Maryville scored five unanswered runs to take a 6-1 lead in the eighth.

UMSL got one back in the bottom of the eighth when Bechaud came home on a throwing error by the Saints shortstop.

The Saints added to their total in the top of the ninth, crossing the plate twice before Keating delivered a two-run homer in the bottom half of the frame for the final score.

Sophomore Austin Schuler (1-2) worked five innings in the loss, scattering eight hits and allowing four runs. Maryville finished with 15 hits.

The Tritons tallied eight hits with Keating, Bechaud and junior John Tierney each recording two.

UMSL returns to action Tuesday, stepping out of league play to host Harris Stowe at 3 p.m.

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