ST. LOUIS – Billiken Baseball wont its series against Bradley with a 9-7 win, scoring in four straight innings to take control on Saturday afternoon at the Billiken Sports Center.
The Braves got on the board first with a two-run homerun in the second.
Saint Louis responded with three runs in the bottom of the frame.
Max McGwire,
Matthew Arnold and
Joey Canzoni each singled to drive in a run.
Bradley added another run in the top of the third to tie the game at 3-3. The Bills again responded with another three runs in the inning to take a 6-3 lead and never looked back.
Chase Beattie homered on the first pitch of the inning,
Hank Gomric scored on a wild pitch and
Drew Kleinheider drove in
Austin Neuweg.
SLU extended its lead with one run in the fourth and in the fifth to lead 8-3. Gromic had an RBI triple and Kleinheider added an RBI single.
The Braves got back within striking distance with two runs in the sixth to bring the game to 8-5.
Riley Iffrig drove in the Billikens final run in the eighth to make it a 9-5 game.
Bradley threatened late with a two-run homer in the ninth to make it 9-7.
Drew Welk came in the game with one on and one out and got outs on each of the next two batters to earn his first save of the season.
Inside the Box Score
- The Braves outhit the Billikens 10-9 but had three errors
- Neuweg scored three runs
- Beattie has hit a homerun in each of his last five games
- Seven Billikens re cored an RBI today
- Ty Holman had seven strikeouts, facing 15 batters through 4.0 innings
- The Billiken bullpen added five more strikeouts to give SLU 12 on the day
UP NEXT
Saint Louis looks to sweep the series with a 1 p.m. first pitch on Sunday.
