OZARK – Quincy pushed across the game-winner in the top of the 11th to pull out a 3-2 victory over Drury and a sweep of their four-game Great Lakes Valley Conference baseball series on Sunday at U.S. Baseball Park.
The Hawks, who won Sunday's seven-inning opener of the twinbill 9-2, improved to 26-8 overall and 11-5 in the GLVC, while Drury fell to 13-24 and 5-11.
Dominic Miles had four hits for Quincy and drove in the winner with an RBI single in the 11th after DU reliever Sterling Sharp, with two out, issued a walk, a wild pitch and another walk to set up Miles' heroics.
Drury had done the same in the bottom of ninth when Spencer Wilmes drove home Ryan Kayhill with a double into the right-center gap to tie the game at 2-2. Wilmes was gunned out at the plate for the final out of the inning when he tried to score from second on a single to right by Nathan Schweppe.
Drury left runners in scoring position in the 7th and 8th in leaving six on base for the game, but Quincy doubled that with 12 men left on base while out-hitting the Panthers 8-7 for the contest.
Schweppe had two hits for DU and Mason McCarville had the other Drury RBI with a sixth-inning groundout that scored Connor Pomering that pulled the Panthers within 2-1.
Drury starter Austin Simms gave up single runs to the Hawks in the first and fourth innings and went seven frames, allowing four hits, but walking six while fanning three. Sharp (1-5) took the loss for DU in relief.
Teddy Rule (1-0) got the win with three innings of relief work, with Wilmes' RBI double the only major blemish.
In the seven-inning opener, Quincy chased DU starter Trey Faulconer (1-1) with a four-run first inning, built the lead to 6-0 with a pair of sixth-inning runs, watched Drury score two in the bottom of the frame to make it 6-2, then put it away for good with three in the seventh for the 9-2 triumph.
Drury's two tallies in the sixth came on a Quincy error and a Christian Magno RBI single as the Hawks out-hit the Panthers 9-4.
Justin Blechle went 3-for-3 and drove in two to lead the Hawks, while Graham Spraker (5-1) went six innings and allowed two runs (both unearned) for the win.
Drury is back in action on Tuesday, playing host to Rogers State in a 3 p.m. non-conference start at Meador Park.
