ST. LOUIS – Make that five wins in a row for Maryville baseball as it ran over William Jewell by a score of 11-1 on Wednesday afternoon. The Saints powered past the visiting Cardinals with five runs in both the first and the fourth, with a run in the firth to finish off the run-rule effort.
Camden Ruby was the story of the day, blasting two home runs against the Cardinals, resulting in five RBIs. It is the second two-homer game of the season for Ruby, accomplishing the same feat against
McKendree on March 28.
Dominic Sharp was also incredibly effective from the plate, going 3 for 4 with 3 RBIs, his fifth multi-RBI game of the season.
HOW IT HAPPENED
After the Saints opener in
Nolan Miller tossed a clean top of the first, the Saints unleashed the first of their crooked numbers. An
Ambrose Russo leadoff walk turned into a Sharp RBI double after just two batters. Ruby made it worse after that, blasting a ball over the centerfield wall to make it 3-0.
Michael Long closed out the frame with a 2-RBI double into left center to leave it 5-0 after just one.
Brayden Rubel followed up the offense with three innings of two hit ball, the one blemish a Cardinal home run in the third. That bled right into the second five-run inning for the Saints, kickstarted by back-to-back hit by pitches from the Cardinals. Sharp scored both those runners with a ball torched down the first base line.
Ruby capped off the inning with the second home of the day for the senior, this one a no-doubter way deep to right field.
The fifth saw two highlights, the first of which came from the fireballer
Victor Quinn who diced up three straight batters for his first three-strikeout inning as a Saint. Russo then made the lead 10 in the bottom half with a quality piece of situational hitting.
Philip Reinhardt closed it out with two innings of scoreless ball, punching out three.
UP NEXT
The Saints stay at home, welcoming in the SBU Bearcats on Friday at 3 p.m. for game one of a four-game set.
