April 14, 2010
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ST. LOUIS - Despite a school-record-tying three home runs off the bat of junior third baseman Jon Myers, Saint Louis dropped a 17-10 decision to SIU Edwardsville Wednesday night at the SimmonsCooper Complex.
Myers' three long balls match the school record set two other times, most recently by Jon Greenwich in 2004. Nick Crocker also hit three homers in 1999. For the year, Myers is tied with SLU senior first baseman Danny Brock with 13 home runs.
The Billikens (16-18) and Cougars (9-22) each registered 17 hits in the game. SLU fell victim to three big innings, however, as SIUE scored eight runs in the second, four in the fourth and four in the seventh to cruise to the 17-10 final.
It was the first of three meetings between the two clubs this season. SLU hosts SIUE April 28 at The Billiken Sports Center. The third game of the series will be played May 12 at GCS Ballpark in Sauget, Ill.
SLU returns to action this weekend when it heads to Fordham for a key three-game Atlantic 10 Conference series. Game one is slated for Friday at 3 p.m. (all times CT), while Saturday's matchup is set for noon. The first pitch of Sunday's finale comes at 11 a.m.
The Billikens opened up a 3-0 lead against the Cougars before SIUE posted eight runs in the bottom of the second. Senior first baseman Danny Brock plated a run in the first with a double, and he later scored on a Myers sacrifice fly. In the second, senior center fielder J.D. Dunn knocked in a run on an RBI groundout.
SLU chipped away at its 8-3 deficit and pulled to within one run after scoring three times in the third and once in the fourth. Myers blasted his 11th home run in the third inning, a two-run shot, to begin the scoring. David Blackwell later registered an RBI single to make it an 8-6 game.
In the fourth, Myers belted a solo shot, his second homer in a row, to pull SLU to within one at 8-7.
But that is as close as the Bills would get to regaining the lead, as the Cougars pushed across four runs in the bottom of the fourth to make it 12-7.
The Billikens did score one run in each of the next three innings. Dunn tripled in a run in the fifth, and Myers belted his third home run in a row in the sixth. In the seventh, senior designated hitter Ben Braaten registered an RBI single to make it 13-10 at the time.
Six pitchers took the mound for the Billikens. Sophomore Andrew Buckham (0-2) was charged with the loss. Freshman Jon Levin tossed two innings and yielded just one unearned run on one hit, while sophomore Jim Foster did not allow a run in the final 1-1/3 innings.
Brock, Myers and Blackwell all registered three hits, while Dunn, Braaten and catcher Connor Gandossy posted two. SLU's one through four hitters (Dunn, Braaten, Brock, Myers) combined to go 10-for-21 with nine RBIs and six runs scored.
