The Quincy pitching staff stymied the Maryville attack as the Saints dropped both ends of a doubleheader to the Hawks Friday night. Quincy won game one 5-3 on a late homer, and a Saints comeback fell short 6-4 in the finale. Maryville only recorded 10 hits in the two games combined.
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The Hawks scored two runs in the top of the before the Saints tied the game with two in the bottom of the third.
Tyler Catlett was hit by a pitch and took second on a wild pitch.
Sean Murphy doubled into the corner in right to cut the gap in half.
Brad Ridings then singled up the middle to forge a 2-2 tie. QU pushed across a run in the fifth with a bases-loaded hit by pitch but the Saints escaped further damage. Maryville tied it in the eighth when
Mitch Carriger singled and took second on a Quincy error. Pinch hitter
Garrett Jones delivered an RBI single for another tie at 3-3. However, Kyle Wisdom hit a two-run homer in the top of the ninth for the decisive runs for the visitors.
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In game two, both teams pushed across a run in the first, with
Sean Murphy's sac fly tying the game at 1-1 for Maryville. The Hawks scored two in the third on a two-run homer by David Jacob and tacked on a solo tally in the fourth. Quincy added two crucial runs in the top of the sixth for a seemingly comfortable 6-1 lead. The Saints responded with three runs in the bottom of the inning. Three walks and an error led to one run, and Carriger pulled the Saints closer with an RBI single. Maryville added a run on a double play but that would prove to be the end of the comeback. The Saints got the potential game-tying run to the plate but could not threaten in the seventh.
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The Saints drop to 17-27, 9-21 in the GLVC while the Hawks improve to 29-14, 21-9 in the league.
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