QUINCY, Ill. – The Maryville baseball team suffered its second-straight extra-innings heartbreaker on the road, falling 9-8 in 14 innings to the Quincy Hawks on Friday afternoon.
Josh Herget was the offensive engine, going 4 for 7 with an RBI and two runs scored.
Cole Christman came up big in extras, plating two of the Saints' three runs in the 13th inning.
Philip Reinhardt and
Griffin King were huge out of the bullpen, tossing four innings of scoreless work from the eighth through the 12th.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Crooked numbers came early for both teams as QU plated two off
Braden Smith in the first. The bats picked Smith right up with a four spot in the top of the second, with
Nick Daugherty,
Ambrose Russo and
Dominic Sharp snagging RBIs. Herget made it 5-2 with a homer in the third.
The Hawks tied it with a run in the third and two in the fourth, making it 5-5, a score that held for seven innings in a row. A bases loaded walk from
Michael Long in the 13th inning made it 6-5 Saints, with Christman tapping the newly entered reliever with two more to leave it 8-5.
Two homers by the Hawks and a sac fly tied it up in the latter half of the frame, with another long fly ending it in the 14th.
UP NEXT
Games two and three are set to be played tomorrow at 1 & 3 p.m. in Quincy, Ill.
