SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The Maryville baseball team's 11-game win streak came to an end Friday, as the Saints fell in a pair of tight seven-inning games at Drury at Mark Worley Field.
 
Game one saw the Saints take a late lead in the seventh inning via the first Maryville home run by Cooper Walkoff, but Drury responded with a walk-off win on a two-run error. The nightcap featured a five-run sixth inning that broke the game open for the Panthers and secured the two-game sweep.
 
GAME 1 | Drury 5, Maryville 4
The Saints traded runs in the first two frames, with Jack Meyer driving in runs in both the first and second innings to make it 2-2.
 
Drury plated single runs in the fourth and fifth to take a 4-2 lead. A leadoff walk by Walkoff in the sixth sparked the Saints and forced a pitching change. After a Matthew Rauser hit-by-pitch, Meyer recorded his third RBI of the game with a single to left, cutting the deficit to one.
 
Dominic Anselmo followed with a walk to load the bases, and Steven Schneider was hit by a pitch on the first offering he saw, bringing in the tying run.
 
Walkoff's solo home run in the top of the seventh gave the Saints a 5-4 lead, but an error with two runners on in the bottom half allowed Drury to walk it off.
 
GAME 2 | Drury 9, Maryville 4
Drury jumped out to a 4-1 lead after three innings, with Aaris Stole's RBI single in the first accounting for Maryville's lone early run.
 
RBIs from Meyer and Anselmo in the fifth cut the deficit to one, but the Panthers answered with a five-run sixth inning, highlighted by a three-run home run, to put the game out of reach.
 
Anselmo added an RBI single in the seventh to try and spark a rally, but the Saints ultimately fell 9-4.
 
Maryville struggled to capitalize offensively, leaving eight runners on base over seven innings.
 
UP NEXT
The Saints will look to even the four-game set in Saturday's finale, scheduled for a 12 p.m. first pitch in Springfield, Missouri.