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Box Score 2 ST. LOUIS – Make that seven wins in a row for Maryville baseball as the Saints took the series against Southwest Baptist behind two wins in the Saturday doubleheader.
Ben Gregory's complete game in the first contest led the Saints to a 4-3 victory, with
Dominic Sharp's first inning two run shot being the biggest blow of the game for the Saints.
Game two was much wider of a margin for victory for the Dawgs, with the score going from 0-0 to 11-1 within just two innings. The Saints used five in the fourth and sixth in the fifth to find the massive score.
Ambrose Russo and Sharp stayed red-hot in game two, with the lefties combining for seven RBIs, four for Russo and three for Sharp.
GAME 1 | Maryville 4, SBU 3
After just two batters, it looked as if it was going to be a run parade for the Saints, with Russo leading off the bottom of the first with a first-pitch single. Just two pitches later, Sharp had blasted one over the right field wall to make it 2-0.
SBU plated one in the second, with Russo returning fire with an RBI single in the bottom half.
A Bearcat home run in the fourth tied it at 3-3, but Gregory bounced right back, tossing a scoreless fifth and sixth. Heroics from
Josh Herget came again as with
Cole Christman at second, he lifted a single into right allowing the go-ahead run to score.
Gregory, now with the lead, was basically untouchable in the seventh, tossing three strikeouts to end his day with seven Ks.
GAME 2 | Maryville 12, SBU 1
The game was scoreless going into the fourth, with
Ty Rauser cooking the Bearcats lineup. A top of the fourth RBI single by the Bearcats was responded with five by the Saints, the first coming from a
Nick Daugherty single. Russo and Sharp went back-to-back, bringing the score to 5-1.
The Dawgs weren't done there, with three bases loaded walks leaving it 8-1 in favor of Maryville. A bases clearing error found the 11-run mark. Russo added on one more in the sixth to get to 12-1.
UP NEXT
The Saints and Bearcats finish off the series on Sunday at 12 p.m. from Weber Baseball Field.
