ST. LOUIS – The UW-Parkside baseball team moved to 4-4 on the season with a split at Missouri-St. Louis on Sunday afternoon. The Rangers have now split all four of their doubleheaders this season with one more weekend of non-conference play ahead.
 
Parkside won the opener on Sunday, 4-2, before falling in the final game of the series, 6-2. The Tritons are also .500 on the year at 2-2.
 
Game One (Box Score)
Andy Stochl for the Rangers and Brett Wolf for the Tritons locked up in an early pitcher's duel until both teams broke through in the fourth.
 
The Rangers did their damage after the first two hitters were retired. Kirk Haviland was hit by a pitch to start the rally and Chris Glynn doubled to put two in scoring position. Mike Anderson came up with the big swing, delivering a two-run double to the gap to make it 2-0 Rangers.
 
UMSL tied it in the bottom half of the frame. They used a squeeze bunt to get on the board and a two-out single to push their second run across..
 
The score stayed that way until the sixth when the Rangers used another clutch hit to help secure the win. Glynn doubled with one out before Anderson and Ben Korman followed with singles to load the bases.
 
Wolf retired the next hitter, bringing Eric Abel to the plate with two outs. He provided the eventual winning runs with a single to left, scoring Glynn and Anderson, and giving the Rangers a 4-2 lead.
 
Jacob Chandler came on to try to secure the win in the bottom of the seventh. The Tritons loaded the bases with an error and two singles. With the winning run on base, Chandler made the big pitch, inducing a 5-4-3 double play to earn the hard-fought victory.
 
Stochl got the win, allowing just one earned run in six innings. He yielded five hits while striking out two. Chandler picked up the save.
 
Abel, Anderson, and Glynn all had two hits. The Rangers had nine in the game while leaving seven runners on base.
 
Game Two (Box Score)
The Rangers offense struggled in game two but Josh Geiger kept them in contention. He held UMSL to one run through the game's first four innings.
 
After a Triton run in the second, Parkside came back to tie it in the third. Anderson continued his big day with a lead-off home run to make it 1-1. 
 
Walks started to catch up with Geiger in the fifth as the Tritons broke through for three runs to assume control. Two walks and an error broke the tie and gave UMSL a 3-2 lead. They added an RBI-single and sacrifice fly for a three-run cushion.
 
Cody Gilles had a sac fly of his own in the sixth to bring in Abel and cut the deficit to 4-2. But that was all the Rangers could muster as UMSL added an insurance run in the bottom half to create the final margin.

Parkside was limited to just four hits in the nightcap while committing three errors. The Ranger staff limited the Tritons to just four hits as well but handed out seven walks and a hit batter.
 
Geiger was tagged with the loss giving up two earned runs in five innings. Brad Weatherman pitched the final inning allowing one earned run.
 
The Rangers will be back on the field next weekend when they head to Evansville, Ind., for the Dunn Hospitality Invite. They'll take on Illinois Springfield in a doubleheader on Saturday. They'll finish the weekend with a single game against Indiana University Southeast on Sunday.