The Maryville baseball team closed out a four-game series sweep of visiting Saginaw Valley State by winning both ends of a Saturday doubleheader 8-7 and 16-8.
 
In the first game of the day slated for seven innings, the Saints trailed 7-0 before mounting a furious comeback in the bottom of the fifth inning. With the bases loaded, Camdon Mercier started the rally with an RBI single, and Zach Ruckman drew a walk to force home another run. Danny Covert lashed a double that plated two more runs as Maryville closed the gap to 7-4. The Saints manufactured two more runs with a sac bunt and a sac fly to chop the SVSU lead down to one. Tyler Catlett drilled a two-run triple that capped the burst to give the Saints an 8-7 lead. Clayton Luley was credited with the win, and Drake Kanallakan retired all six batters he faced to notch the save.
 
The series finale saw the Saints score in six of their eight at-bats as they notched 16 runs on 16 hits. Maryville pushed across five runs in the bottom of the first. Ruckman walked, stole second and took third on a wild pitch. He sprinted home with the first run on Covert's single to center. Dalton Schumer plated a run, and Catlett's sac turned into another score. After a Garrett Taylor RBI single, Mercier's sac bunt drove in the fifth run of the inning.
 
The Cardinals scored two in the top of the second but the Saints answered with three in the third. Mercier drove in a run with an RBI single and later scored on a wild pitch. Covert followed with an RBI single to stretch the Maryville advantage to 8-2. SVSU pushed home two runs in the top of the fourth before Troy Payton's RBI double and a run-scoring single by Ruckman was good for a 10-4 lead. Saginaw Valley cut the deficit to 10-6 until the Saints sealed the win with three scores in the bottom of the sixth. Schumer had a solo blast in the seventh, and Ruckman's two-run round tripper finished the scoring.
 
Louis Niemerg pitched five innings to earn the win for the Saints who improved to 6-5 on the season. The Cardinals drop to 0-4 on the year. The Saints are in action next week as they travel to Memphis, Tenn., to take on Christian Brothers University.