ST. LOUIS – Saint Louis and St. Bonaventure played two extra inning games at a blustery Billiken Sports Center on Friday. SLU took the first game of the doubleheader 10-9 in a 10-inning thriller, while the Bonnies won the nightcap 9-7 in 10 innings.

The Billikens are now 14-12 overall and 5-3 in Atlantic 10 Conference play. St. Bonaventure moves to 9-15 and 2-6 in the league.

The schedule was adjusted for a doubleheader on Friday due to the impending wet weather forecast for the St. Louis area this weekend. As of now, the teams are scheduled to complete the series Saturday in a 2 p.m. first pitch. Stay tuned to SLUBillikens.com for updates.

The Billikens staged a miraculous comeback in game one, scoring five runs in the bottom of the 10th to complete the thrilling win.

SLU faced deficits of 3-0 through three innings and trailed 4-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth before it scored four unanswered runs to lead 5-4 heading to the ninth.

The Bonnies tied it up at 5-5 with a solo homer in the top of the ninth to take it to extra innings.

In the top of the 10th, St. Bonaventure plated four runs and led 9-5 when SLU came to bat in the bottom of the inning, then the Billikens went to work. 

SLU quickly loaded the bases with nobody out. Kamaehu Sanchez and Hayden Moore were subsequently hit by a pitch to bring home a pair of runs. Ethan Sitzman then reached on a fielder's choice for an RBI to make it a one-run game with two outs.

Two Billikens came up clutch with the game on the line. Riley Iffrig had an RBI single to tie it up at 9-9. Then, Brenden Stressler doubled in the winning run, sending the SLU dugout into a frenzy and completing the five-run 10th inning for the Billiken victory. 

Iffrig finished 4-for-6 with two RBIs and two runs scored in the game. Stressler was 3-for-6 with a pair of RBIs. 

The nightcap saw St. Bonaventure jump ahead 4-0 with four runs in the top of the second.

The resilient Billikens fought back, scoring twice in the third and five more times in the fourth to lead 7-4. 

But that is all the offense the Billikens would muster the rest of the way. St. Bonaventure chipped away at the deficit by scoring two runs in the sixth and one more in the seventh to tie it at 7-7

It went to extra innings once again, and the Bonnies plated two runs in the 10th on an RBI double and a run on a wild pitch.

In the bottom of the 10th for Billikens, two singles had the tying run on base with one out, but the Bonnies got two strikeouts to end the game to salvage the doubleheader split.

Stressler and Hank Gomric had two hits apiece to lead the SLU offense in game two. Max McGwire, Patrick Mendiola and Austin Neuweg all homered in the game.