UMSL Falls in Late Innings to USI

Rivermen Lose by One to Southern Indiana

Evansville, Ind. - The UMSL baseball team dropped a close road game to Southern Indiana on Wednesday in a game that went back and forth from the beginning. The Rivermen, ranked 12th in the country, lost 5-4 to the Screaming Eagles.

Southern Indiana got on the board in the first inning, scoring just one run despite having bases loaded at one point. UMSL came right back the next inning to took the lead with two runs in the second. Scott Sanders (St. Louis, Mo./Parkway North) brought home the first run with an RBI single and then scored on an RBI single by Doug Wiles (Farmington, Mo./Farmington). That lead was short lived however, as the Screaming Eagles would add three runs to the board in the third inning to take a 4-2 lead.

The Rivermen would chip away at that deficit over the next couple of innings, adding single runs in the fourth and fifth inning to tie the game up at 4-4. Scott Sanders came through again with an RBI single in the fourth and Logan Hughes had an RBI double in the fifth to tie the game. In the bottom of the seventh, Southern Indiana would take the lead for good with an RBI single to take a 5-4 lead and would then hold that lead for the last two innings.

Scott Sanders went 2-for-3 with one run and two RBIs for UMSL at the plate. UMSL falls to 18-6 on the season and 6-3 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. The Rivermen will be on the road again this weekend when UMSL travels to play at Kentucky Wesleyan for a doubleheader on Saturday and a single game on Sunday.