Maryville pitcher Steven Reynolds held the Drury bats in check - with just one hit allowed through the first five innings - and the Saints went on to claim a 9-3 victory over the Panthers to even their weekend Great Lakes Valley Conference series at one game apiece Saturday afternoon at Meador Park.

The Panthers (9-9-1, 5-4-1 in the GLVC) and Saints (10-13, 3-7) will finish the four-game set by playing a 7/9 doubleheader starting at 11 a.m. Sunday at Meador.

Reynolds, who came into the contest with a 1-2 record and an ERA over 7.00, baffled the Panthers long enough for Maryville to build an 8-1 lead through five innings.

Tied at 1-apiece after one inning, the Saints broke through for four runs in the third and three runs in the fourth off DU starter Luke Burnidge (2-2) to grab the 8-1 cushion. Burnidge allowed eight hits and seven runs in four innings for the Panthers.

The lone bright spots for Drury came from the bullpen, including a solid four innings of relief work from freshman left-hander Ryan Wedermyer, who blanked the Saints in innings 5-8 before surrendering a run in the ninth prior to his departure. Aaron Alexander pitched a damage-free ninth for DU.

Bobby Lang had two of DU's five hits. The Panthers scored in the first on a Luke Tewes sacrifice fly, in the sixth on a Tyler Arthur fielder's choice RBI and in the seventh on Ryan Colombo's RBI single.

Maryville banged out 14 hits, led by three from Brad Ridings and two each from Kaleb Depew, Tyler Catlett, Yoonjae Nam and Mike Wilkinson. Combined the aforementioned group - the top five in the Saints batting order - went 11-for-24 with seven runs driven in Saturday. Nam, the cleanup hitter, is now 6-for-9 with two runs and four RBIs through the first two games of the series.

The Saints snapped a seven-game losing streak to the Panthers with the victory, after Drury had taken Friday's opener by a 13-8 count.