Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Maryville baseball team split a pair of Great Lakes Valley Conference games at Drury Friday afternoon in Springfield, Mo. The Saints won the first game 6-3, and the Panthers took a wild 8-7 affair in the nightcap.
 
In the first game, Patrick Jacobs threw a complete game and the Saints used two three-run innings to post the win. After Drury took the lead with one run in the third, the Saints responded with three tallies in the top of the fourth. Eric Keling and Jared Green opened the inning with a single and double, and Mike Wilkinson tied the game with a single. Green then scored after a Kaleb Depew fielder’s choice and a DU error. Kyle Kinyon drove in the third run of the inning with a groundout for a 3-1 Saints lead. Drury scored another single run in the sixth but the Saints tacked on two more runs in the seventh. Green walked with the bases loaded to force in a run, and Wilkinson delivered his second RBI of the game with a single for a 6-2 cushion. The Panthers tacked on a run in the bottom of the eighth, but Jacobs made the three-run lead stand. He scattered eight hits and allowed just one earned run in going the distance.
 
The second contest was scoreless until the top of the fifth when Nick Little singled in Depew for a 1-0 Saints lead. Drury strung together six hits en route to scoring five runs to jump into the lead. Keling got one run back for the Saints in the sixth to chase home Corey Gall. Trailing 5-2 heading to the top of the seventh, the Saints exploded for five runs. Nick Stading was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to force in a run. After a Drury error scored Depew, Gall doubled with the bases loaded to plate three runs for a 7-5 Saints lead. However, the Panthers rallied in the bottom of the seventh with three runs and won it on Caleb Cole’s game-winning single.
 
The Saints are now 7-9 overall, 6-2 in the GLVC. The Panthers stand at 15-7 overall, 6-2 in the conference.