The Maryville baseball team closed out a four-game series at Drury Sunday, and the Panthers took both ends of a doubleheader to take the series. The Panthers won game one Sunday 9-3 and held on for a 9-7 triumph in the final game. The Saints hit three solo home runs on the day.
 
Drury took the lead in the second with one run and added three more in the third. The Saints struck for a score in the visitor's half of the fourth when Kaleb Depew launched a solo home run to pull the Saints to 4-1. Sean Murphy singled to lead off the sixth and moved into scoring position on a passed ball. After a walk, Murphy reached third on a fielder's choice. Mitch Carriger delivered an RBI single to right to score Maryville's second run. The Saints scored their final run of the game when Andrew Naegeli drilled a solo blast to left.
 
In series finale, the Panthers pushed across three runs before the Saints recorded single tallies in the third and fourth. Garrett Jones had a double to start the third, and after a ground out, he scored on Depew's sac fly. Mike Wilkinson parked a ball over the fence for the third solo home run of the day to pull the Saints to 3-2. After Drury went back up 5-2, the Saints tied the game with three scores in the top of the fifth. Depew was hit by a pitch, and Yoonjae Nam walked to put two aboard. Carriger drove Depew in with a single, and Wilkinson doubled home two more to force a 5-5 tie. However, the Panthers scored the go ahead run in the sixth and tacked on two more in the seventh. Maryville answered with its own two-run burst in the eight. Wilkinson and Naegeli notched back-to-back doubles, and Naegeli scored on a Drury error to pull the Saints to within one at 8-7. The Panthers added an insurance run in the home half of the eighth. Maryville got the potential game-tying run on base when Tyler Omlid and Wilkinson recorded consecutive singles in the top of the ninth but the Saints were unable to bring them home.
 
The Saints stand at 10-15 overall, 3-9 in the conference, while the Panthers are 11-9-1 overall, 7-4-1 in the league. Maryville returns to Weber Field Wednesday as it hosts University of Missouri-St. Louis for a doubleheader starting at 4 p.m.