ST. LOUIS – The Maryville baseball team has swept the reigning Midwest champions.
A three-game set against the Northwood Timberwolves, winners of the 2025 NCAA Midwest Super Regional, went all Saints, with Maryville taking the final game Saturday by a score of 3-2.
Pitching was elite for the Saints in the win, with
Ryan Hoshaw going 5 2/3 innings and allowing no earned runs.
Blake Sivak did the same out of the bullpen over the final 3 1/3 innings.
Dominic Sharp and
Brady Kindhart came up clutch late, with Sharp recording a two-run single in the seventh inning to tie it and Kindhart delivering the go-ahead sacrifice fly in the eighth.
INS & OUTS
The Saints threatened in the first, getting runners at first and second but were unable to score, a trend that continued throughout the nine-inning affair.
It took until the fifth for another runner to reach scoring position, with the Timberwolves successfully converting a first-and-third double steal to plate the contest's first run.
The Saints finally broke up the no-hitter in the fifth when Kindhart doubled on the first pitch after a Timberwolves mound visit, but again, Maryville could not find the equalizer.
Northwood converted on a first-and-third situation again in the seventh, using the same double steal to score and extend the lead to 2-0. That advantage held only until the bottom half of the inning, when Sharp's two-RBI single brought
Aaris Stolte and
Greyson Rathgeb home to tie the game.
An inning later, the Saints pushed across the winning run when Kindhart lifted a ball to right field, allowing
Dominic Anselmo to slide home with the go-ahead score, Maryville's first lead of the day.
Sivak shut it down from there, going three up, three down in the ninth to secure the win. The Saints tallied seven strikeouts on the day, with Sivak recording four in his 3 1/3 innings of work.
UP NEXT
It is a short turnaround for the Saints. They return to Weber on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. to face another College World Series participant in Central Missouri.
