Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 St. Charles, Mo. - The Maryville baseball team capped a four-game weekend sweep of William Jewell by grabbing two wins Sunday, including a late-inning rally in the series finale. The Saints won the first game Sunday 8-3 then scored four times in the eighth inning to post a 5-4 win in the final contest.
 
William Jewell (22-16, 7-9) started things off in the first frame as they opened the game with a pair of hits and pushed both of those runs across to take the early 2-0 lead. The Saints came out and started the same way as Mitch Carriger and Troy Payton opened the Maryville half of the inning with a pair of hits with Carriger scoring on a pass ball and Payton coming across on a Dalton Schumer sacrifice fly to knot things up at 2-2.
 
The Cardinals battled back and scratched across a run in the top of the second to take a 3-2 lead, but that lead was short lived as Maryville plated six runs in the home half of the third to take an 8-3 lead. The Saints scattered five hits in the uprising, including a double by Sean Murphy and an RBI single by Zack Ruckman. The Saints also took advantage of four Cardinal miscues in the inning as all but one run was unearned. Maryville starting pitcher Robbie Gordon picked up his fourth win of the year by tossing a complete game and striking out eight Cardinal batters. Brendan Beatty suffered his first loss on the year for WJC.
 
Game two started out with a pitcher's dual between Saints starter Steven Reynolds and Cardinals hurler Billy Kirkpatrick. The two combined for five strikeouts over the first three innings until William Jewell tacked on a run in the fourth to take a 1-0 lead.
 
Maryville (17-19, 8-8) came storming back as Carriger drilled a double to the right field fence. Two batters later, Ruckman smashed a double to center field to drive in Carriger and tie the affair up at 1-1 after six innings. William Jewell found their bats in the seventh as they scattered four hits including a double and triple to score three runs and take a 4-1 advantage.
 
The Saints continued to claw back into the affair as Carriger drilled his seventh homer of the year over the right field fence to score Conner Markell and make it a 4-3 game in the eighth inning, but the Saints were not done. Schumer smacked a double down the left line to plate Ruckman and tie things up at 4-4. Maryville capped off the four-run outburst in the inning with Murphy hitting a single to score Schumer and give the Saints a 5-4 lead heading to the ninth.
 
Julian Langford, who came in to relieve Reynolds in the eighth inning, found a little trouble in the ninth. The Cardinals placed runners on first and third with no out, but Langford got a web gem from Tyler Omlid on a bunt attempt to throw the runner out at. Omlid turned in another sterling defensive play as he fielded a smash down the first base line and tossed it to Langford to seal the win. Langford picked up his first win of the season while Kirkpatrick evened his mark at 3-3 with the loss.
 
The Saints will hit the road this week as they will take on McKendree University Wednesday, April 20, at 2 p.m. and then travel to take on Quincy next weekend in a four-game series.