ST. CHARLES - Mason McCarville's two-run triple in the seventh gave Drury the lead for good, and the Panthers went on to claim a 6-4 victory over Winona State to complete their three-game appearance in the Maryville Classic, played at the Lou Brock Sports Complex on the campus of Lindenwood University.

Drury moved to 2-5 with its second straight win over Winona State (2-5), after opening with a loss Friday to Grand Valley State in the three-day event.

McCarville's triple to left put the Panthers up 3-1, and he came home a batter late on a squeeze play to push it to a three-run cushion and eventually make a winner out of DU senior left-hander Luke Burnidge (1-1), who allowed seven hits and three runs (two earned) while striking out five and walking none in his 7 1/3 innings of work.
 

The Warriors plated two in the eighth to get to 4-3, but the Panthers escaped a major jam when Austin Simms induced a bases-loaded groundout to keep the lead for DU. The Panthers plated two more runs in the bottom of the eighth, on RBI singles from Marcus Enloe and Ryan Kayhill, to push the lead back to 6-3 before the Warriors added a run in the ninth. Ryan Wedemyer finished the final out for the Panthers to pick up the save.

Drury had a season-high 14 hits, including two each from Kayhill, McCarville, Christian Magno, John Goodrich and Ryan Pomering.

Pomering tripled and scored on a Kayhill groundout to pull the Panthers even at 1-apiece in the third, after WSU scored a run in the opening frame, aided by two DU errors.

It stayed at 1-all until McCarville's big blow, which came after Pomering and Kayhill had delivered one-out singles. Ryan Colombo's sacrifice squeeze bunt brought McCarville across the plate with one out.

Devan O'Brien and Magno singled to lead off the eighth and get the DU offense rolling once again, setting the table for Enloe and Kayhill.

The Panthers will play host to Arkansas-Fort Smith next Friday through Sunday in their home opening series at Meador Park.