Despite outhitting visiting Bellarmine, the Maryville softball team dropped a pair of one-run decisions to the Knights. The Saints fell 3-2 in game one and 6-5 in the second contest but enjoyed a 21-17 advantage in hits.
 
In game one, the Saints jumped on top with two runs in the bottom of the first. Kelsey Martin singled and took second on Ashley Marks' sac bunt. Sheridon Sprague singled to put runners on the corners. Dani Williams delivered an RBI single for a 1-0 lead. Krystal Rock followed with a single to center to score Sprague for a 2-0 lead. Bellarmine got on the scoreboard with a solo homer and tied the game on a Maryville miscue in the top of the second. Neither team scored again until the top of the sixth when Amy Feie hit a solo homer to left center for a 3-2 Knights lead. The Saints loaded the bases in the bottom of the sixth and appeared to score the game-tying run on a sac fly. However, the Maryville runner was judged to have left early and the run was erased. The Saints went down in order to finish the game. Four different players had at least two hits in the game for Maryville.
 
The Saints fell behind 6-1 in game two but had a rally fall short with runners at the corners to end the game. The Knights used three homers in the game to hold off the Saints. Hannah Daunhauer had a two-run homer to put BU up in the first. Maryville answered with one run when Nikki Taylor scored on a Williams RBI ground out in the bottom of the first. The Knights added a three-run homer in the third and a solo shot in the fourth. The Saints got a run back in the bottom of the fourth when Courtney Ferguson doubled, took third on a grounder and scored on Alex Flasch's sac fly to center.
 
In the fifth, the Saints drew three straight walks as Marks, Sprague and Williams all earned free passes. Ferguson had an RBI infield single to score one, and Meredith Brown had a single that just bounced inside the line in left to cut the deficit to 6-4. Pinch hitter Syd Tockman lashed an RBI single to left field that pulled the Saints to within one run. However, Maryville lost a runner at home and a fly out ended the inning. In their final at-bat, the Saints got the potential game-winning run on the bases but a foul out ended the contest as their rally fell short 6-5.
 
The Saints fall to 17-30 overall, 9-19 in the GLVC. The Knights improve to 31-13, 19-7 in the league. The Saints host their final home games at the Maryville Softball Field Sunday as No. 15 Southern Indiana visits for a Noon doubleheader. Senior Meredith Brown will be honored before the game.