ST. LOUIS — Although there was a year in between recovering from an arm injury, Eddie Mathis' sophomore campaign for the Bellarmine University baseball team is starting to look a lot like his All-Great Lakes Valley Conference freshman performance.

On Saturday at Missouri-St. Louis, Mathis allowed only three hits in 7.0 shutout innings and the Knights put the game out of reach with a six-run sixth in a 9-3 victory over the Tritons.

Mathis (3-2) won his third-straight start and worked 7.0 innings for the fourth-consecutive outing. The sophomore left-hander yielded three earned runs or less in each of those performances and struck out four while walking just one against the Tritons (5-8). In all six starts this season, Mathis didn't allow more than one free pass.

Junior shortstop Drew Greenwood, sophomore right fielder Alex Phillips, sophomore third baseman Josh Finerty, junior second baseman Alex Ralph and sophomore designated hitter Zac Wiley all compiled two hits for Bellarmine. Greenwood and Finerty added two RBIs apiece.

Bellarmine scored all nine of its runs in the first six innings. In the first, Phillips singled, stole third and scored on Finerty's sacrifice fly. Wiley doubled leading off the second and scored after an UMSL throwing error with two outs. Ralph made it 3-0 with a two-out RBI single in the fifth.

Bellarmine busted the game open with six runs in the sixth. Greenwood cracked a two-run triple, Phillips and Finerty registered RBI singles and Wiley tacked on a sacrifice fly. Missouri-St. Louis didn't score until posting three runs in the eighth.

The two teams will play again at UMSL at 2 p.m. (ET) Sunday. The Knights and Tritons are both in the GLVC but only divisional games count toward the league standings, and they are in separate divisions.

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