GAME RESULTS
Saint Louis 12, Massachusetts 1 (5 innings)
Massachusetts 4, Saint Louis 3
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Amherst, Mass.
 
THE BASICS
Freshmen Abby Mallo and Chloe Rhine combined for nine RBI in Saint Louis' Atlantic 10 Conference doubleheader split at Massachusetts Sunday.
 
The Billikens are now 14-18 overall and 6-2 in the A-10.
 
GAME 1 – HOW IT HAPPENED
•SLU took advantage of two first-inning UMass errors to jump on top 2-0.
•Rhine's two-run double in the second made it 4-0.
•The Billikens erupted for five runs in the third. Rhine drove in two more with a single, Jocelyn Abbott and Gabbie Kowalik had RBI singles, and a fifth run scored on an error.
•UMass tallied its only run in the fourth.
•Mallo's team-leading sixth home run of the season, a three-run blast in the fifth, allowed Saint Louis to claim the run-rule victory.
 
GAME 1 – BILLIKEN NOTABLES
•Rhine was 3-for-4.
•Abbott, Kowalik and Mallo all had two hits.
•Natalie Sullivan, Jane Kaniecki and Kelsey Etling collected a single apiece.
•Chloe Wendling tossed a four-hitter with six strikeouts to notch her 12th win.
 
GAME 2 – HOW IT HAPPENED
•UMass struck first, plating three runs in the second.
•SLU got one of the runs back on Sullivan's third-inning RBI single.
•The Billikens drew closer in the fifth on Mallo's bases-loaded walk.
•After the first two batters were retired in the seventh, Saint Louis rallied to tie it 3-3 on Mallo's RBI single.
•The Minutewomen scored the winning run in their half of the seventh.
 
GAME 2 – BILLIKEN NOTABLES
•Wendling surrendered just one run and three hits in 4 1/3 innings in relief.
•Sullivan had two hits.
•Kowalik and Ashley Marietta each had a hit.
 
UP NEXT
The Billikens host a single game vs. Southern Illinois Wednesday, April 5, at 3 p.m.