QUINCY, Ill. – The Quincy University baseball team completed a three-game sweep of the Missouri-St. Louis Tritons behind 27 hits on Sunday afternoon (March 1). QU smacked seventeen hits in the first game of the doubleheader in an 8-4 win and then won the series finale 9-1 behind ten hits. 

Game 1
The home team got on the board first in the non-conference matchup. Lance Logsdon hit a line drive single to right field to bring in Nolan Wosman and give the Hawks a 1-0 lead. 

Missouri-St. Louis fired back in the next inning when they rallied for four runs. Two singles and a double brought in all four runs and gave the Tritons a brief 4-1 lead. 

QU was able to equalize in the bottom of the third. Lance Logsdon recorded another RBI with a double to right field that allowed Zach Parks to score. Quincy trailed 4-2. 

The middle of the lineup continued to produce when Justin Eads tied the game with a two-run blast in the next at-bat. The score moved to 4-4. 

The fourth, fifth, and sixth innings were relatively quiet as neither team could capture the lead. That changed in the bottom of the seventh. 

Quincy's right fielder, Justin Eads, struck again to deliver the go-ahead run with his second home run of the game. The Hawks went up 5-4. 

In the bottom of the eighth, QU delivered the final blow when Zach Parks collected an RBI single, and Lance Logsdon followed with a two-run shot to right center.

Quincy led 8-4 and won the game by that final tally. 

Six Hawk batters recorded more than one hit in the game, and they were led by Zach Parks who went 4-5 with an RBI.

Logsdon went 3-5 and accounted for six of QU's eight runs as he drove in four and scored twice. Justin Eads went 2-4 with two dingers and three runs batted in. 

Jack Widhalm got the win on the mound after tossing three scoreless innings of relief while only giving up two hits. 

Game 2
The home team used a similar recipe for success in the final game of the series. 

In the third inning, Nolan Wosman hit a two-run blast to left center to give his team a 2-0 advantage. Matt Westphal kept the long-ball trend going in the next inning when he belted a towering two-run homer to give the Hawks a 4-0 lead. 

Starting pitcher, Jay Hammel, had only one blemish when UMSL hit a solo home run in the sixth inning to make it 4-1. Hammel got out of the inning and finished his outing by tossing six frames with five strikeouts. 

Lance Logsdon continued his rampant pace at the plate when the sophomore hit a grand slam in the bottom of the seventh. Quincy jumped ahead 8-1. 

Eads followed Logsdon's grand slam with a line-drive blast to cap off the seventh. It was the outfielder's third on the day. The Hawks held a commanding 9-1 lead. 

Relief pitchers Brett Taucher, Dalton Overstreet, and Cruz Meier all tossed scoreless innings out of the bullpen to cap off the series sweep of the Tritons. 

Gino D'Alessio also collected three hits in the game which led all Hawks in the finale. 

Next Game
The baseball team will host Missouri Western this Tuesday (March 3) in midweek action. The non-conference doubleheader is slated to start at 2 p.m. with game two beginning approximately thirty minutes after game one.