RICHMOND, Va. – The Saint Joseph's baseball team fell to Saint Louis, 23-8, in its opening game at the 2023 Atlantic 10 Championship at The Diamond on Wednesday.
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Saint Louis (32-21) opened the scoring with a five-spot in the second, but the Hawks answered with four in the bottom of the frame. Singles by
Nate Thomas and
Ryan Weingartner led to an RBI single by
Luke Zimmerman to put the Hawks on the board.
•
Ryan Picollo drew a walk to bring up
Max Hitman, who singled home Weingartner to make it a 5-2 game.
Brett Callahan followed with a sacrifice fly before a single up the middle from
Conlan Wall cut it to 5-4.
• A solo home run in the top of the third extended the SLU lead, but Saint Joseph's (27-23-1) went ahead in the bottom of the inning.
Justin Igoe drew a walk before Weingartner singled; Zimmerman followed with a two-run triple to tie the game before Picollo brought him home with an RBI groundout.
• Unfortunately for the Crimson and Gray, the Billikens went ahead with a three-spot in the fifth and added runs in each of the final four innings as well.
• Wall led off the bottom of the ninth with a double before coming in to score on a single by pinch hitter
Travis Rinker, but that would be all for the Hawks.
BEHIND THE BOX SCORE
• Henry Litman earned the win for Saint Louis, while
Will McCausland took the loss for the Hawks.
• Wall and Zimmerman each had three hits in the game, while Weingartner and Zimmerman scored a pair of runs apiece. Zimmerman also drove in three runs.
• Thomas' run in the second inning was the 163
rd of his career, tying the program's all-time mark.
UP NEXT
The Hawks will meet either fifth-seeded Richmond or seventh-seeded Rhode Island in an elimination game on Thursday at 3:00 p.m. The Spiders and Rams are set to meet in an elimination game on Wednesday night.
