The McKendree University baseball team split Saturday's doubleheader with the University of Missouri-St. Louis Tritons.

The Tritons took game one by a final score of 7-5 and McKendree took the second game by a score of 11-7.

Bryce Emery lead the game off for the Bearcats with a lead off home run, his second home run of the year. McKendree would add two more runs, courtesy of Joseph Costanzo and Emery, who recorded their 15^th and 23^rd RBIs of the 2021 campaign to extend their lead to 3-0.

UMSL would answer in its half of the inning, getting four runs on the board to take a 5-3 lead. The Tritons would add another pair of runs in the third inning to extend their lead to 7-3.

The lead would be cut to 7-5 in the fourth inning following an RBI single from Jordan Richardson and Ryan Hutchinson scored on a wild pitch. McKendree would threaten in the final innings but UMSL would manage to keep the Bearcats off the scoreboard.

McKendree opened game two by putting five runs on the board in the top of the first inning. Hutchinson brought Emery home to start things off. Corey Price would follow up with another RBI single on the next at bat to bring Hutchinson home to give McKendree a 2-0 lead.

Deion Tubbs extended the lead to 4-0 off a single to left field to record his first two RBIs of the year and Mason Hale drove in the final Bearcat run of the first inning to give them a 5-0 lead.

UMSL would answer in their own half of the first inning with an offensive explosion of their own, putting four runs on the board to make the score after one 5-4. The Tritons would go on to tie the ball game at five apiece in the third inning.

McKendree would regain the lead in the fourth inning off an RBI single from Jordan Richardson and would go on to add insurance runs with one in the fifth, one in the seventh and three in the eighth.

Jacob Reinkemeyer earned his first win of the season after throwing three and a thirds innings of scoreless baseball and striking out five.

McKendree concludes its 2021 regular season next week when they host the Saints of Maryville University for a four game series at Hypes Field.