RECAP: Bulldogs Carousel Around The Bases In Sweep Of Tritons

KIRKSVILLE, Mo. – The Bulldog Baseball team blasted their way back into the win column with a doubleheader sweep over Missouri-St. Louis on Saturday. Truman won by scores of 21-8 and 9-7. The teams will resume their four-game Great Lakes Valley Conference series at noon on Sunday.

Doubleheader Highlights:

It was the second doubleheader sweep by the Bulldogs this season and first coming since the start of conference play. The last sweep was on March 18 against Saginaw Valley St.
The Bulldogs hit .441 as a team in the two games with five home runs and four doubles. They had a .721 slugging percentage and a .589 on base percentage.
Truman loaded the bases in seven of the 14 innings in which they hit.
Adam Stolley had five hits in seven at-bats after entering game one as a pinch hitter in the fourth inning.
Brendan Trimble and Charlie Kreh each drove in seven runs with Trimble hitting a pair of home runs, including a grand slam. Kreh also had a home run and a double.
The Bulldogs were hit seven times by Triton pitchers and drew 19 walks. The 15 walks in game one was a Truman single-game record. The previous high was 13 set by UMSL in their last visit to Kirksville in 2016.
Cooper Vinz was 5-of-7 for the Tritons (.714) as UMSL hit .380 in the two games.

Game 1 Box Score

The two teams loaded the bases in five of the first six half innings.
Brendan Kelly tied a school single-game record with five runs scored.
Kelly scored the first run of the game on a wild pitch to give Truman a 1-0 lead in the first.
UMSL sent eight hitters to the plate in the second and jumped in front 3-1.
Truman responded in their second when the first three reached and Trimble hit a towering home run over the right field fence for his first home run of the season and a grand slam in the five-run frame.
After a rough start, Kent Frantz settled in and retired 13 of the next 14 UMSL hitters after the three-run second.
The Bulldogs scored seven times in the fourth inning all after the first two were retired. Pinch hitter Adam Stolley started the train with a single which was followed by a hit-by-pitch, two singles and six straight walks before the inning was over. Truman led 13-3.
Charlie Kreh hit his fourth home run of the year as all nine went to the dish in the four-run fifth.
Jake Schneider hit his first collegiate home run to start a four-run sixth inning. Brendan Kelly added a double as well.
Truman led 21-3 after seven.
UMSL used seven pitchers in the game with Alex Oltmann taking the loss to fall to 1-4.
Frantz won his 19^th career game to even his Bulldog record at 19-19 overall and 5-4 this season. He fanned a career high 10.
The 21 runs scored ties for second in single-game history with a 21-run output against Southwest Baptist in 2014 and five runs shy of the school record 25 set against Culver-Stockton in 1982.

Game 2 Box Score

Both teams left a pair of runs on the table in a scoreless first inning.
Zach Spencer got things moving with a lead-off single in the second. The Bulldogs had five hits in the inning, all singles and scored five times to lead 5-0.
Centerfielder Derrick Freeman kept the damage at five with a diving catch to end the second, then lead off with a hit and score in the Triton's three-run third. Jacob Monti had a bases clearing triple.
Back-to-back home runs by Brendan Trimble and Evan Kayser started the fourth inning. It was Trimble's second of the day and Kayser's team-leading fifth.
Charlie Kreh knocked in an RBI double and Trimble brought in Kreh on a sac fly to make it 9-4 Bulldogs after four.
Freeman hit a two-run homer, his third of the year in the sixth. An infield single loaded the bases for Tom DiCero after Matt Tometz relieved starter Rian Markes. DiCero hit a fly ball to left that dropped for an RBI but the runner at first was forced out at second.
Tometz picked off DiCero to end the inning.
After a two-out walk in the seventh, Xavier Collier was in the batter's box representing the tying run before Tometz struck again with a pickoff of John Hilpert to end the game and notch his first save of the year.
Markes went 5.1 innings with three strikeouts and three walks to improve to 2-5 on the season.
Matt Graser took the loss going three innings and falling to 4-4.

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Players Mentioned

#3 Kent Frantz: RHP; 5' 11"; Senior; R/R

#14 Evan Kayser: SS/2B; 5' 10"; Sophomore; R/R

#24 Charlie Kreh: 1B; 6' 2"; Junior; L/R

#16 Rian Markes: LHP; 6' 2"; Sophomore; L/L

#27 Adam Stolley: OF; 5' 8"; Sophomore; L/R

#1 Matt Tometz: LHP; 6' 0"; Senior; R/L

#6 Brendan Trimble: 3B/OF; 6' 2"; Senior; L/R

#4 Brendan Kelly: OF; 5' 6"; Freshman; R/R

#22 Jake Schneider: C; 6' 1"; Freshman; R/R

#29 Zach Spencer: 1B; 6' 1"; Freshman; L/R

Players Mentioned

#3 Kent Frantz
: 5' 11"; Senior; R/R
: RHP

#14 Evan Kayser
: 5' 10"; Sophomore; R/R
: SS/2B

#24 Charlie Kreh
: 6' 2"; Junior; L/R
: 1B

#16 Rian Markes
: 6' 2"; Sophomore; L/L
: LHP

#27 Adam Stolley
: 5' 8"; Sophomore; L/R
: OF

#1 Matt Tometz
: 6' 0"; Senior; R/L
: LHP

#6 Brendan Trimble
: 6' 2"; Senior; L/R
: 3B/OF

#4 Brendan Kelly
: 5' 6"; Freshman; R/R
: OF

#22 Jake Schneider
: 6' 1"; Freshman; R/R
: C

#29 Zach Spencer
: 6' 1"; Freshman; L/R
: 1B