GAME RESULT
Saint Louis 5, Rider 4 (8 innings)
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Kennesaw, Ga. (Bailey Park)
 
THE BASICS
Kendall Johnson's RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning gave Saint Louis a 5-4 victory over Rider Sunday morning in the Billikens' final game of the Kennesaw State Tournament.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
•Rider scored three times in the top of the first inning.
•Saint Louis came back with two runs of its own in the bottom of the first on a two-run blast by Abby Mallo, her sixth home run of the season.
•Karsen Jany's second-inning RBI double evened the score at 3-3.
•The Billikens took a 4-3 lead in the third on a first-and-third double steal.
•Rider tied it with a run in the fifth.
•SLU pitcher Isabel Royle worked out of a second-and-third, one-out jam in the top of the eighth.
•In the Billiken eighth, Chloe Rhine sacrificed the placed runner to third, and Johnson followed with her game-winning hit.
 
BILLIKEN NOTABLES
•Jany added two singles for her first multi-hit game as a Billiken.
•A single by Mallo gave her a third consecutive multi-hit game.
•Natalie Sullivan doubled.
•Abby Ulsas and Allie Marietta collected a single apiece.
•Royle pitched three innings of scoreless, hitless relief to record the victory, walking just one and striking out three.
•Starter Taylor Hochman allowed just one earned run in five innings of work.
 
UP NEXT
•Saint Louis plays at Illinois Friday, March 7. Game time is 2 p.m.