LIBERTY, Mo.- The Drury Panthers blanked William Jewell in both halves of a doubleheader Saturday in Liberty, Missouri and have now won 14 of their last 15 games. Drury won the first game 4-0 and took game two 11-0.
 
The Panthers are 24-16 and 15-3 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. The Cardinals dropped to 19-19 and 8-10 in the league.
 
Drury starter Austin Simms (7-2) fired eight shutout innings in game one. The senior from Blue Springs, Missouri allowed only four hits and three walks while striking out eight. Nick Constantino entered the game in the ninth with a runner on base and recorded three outs to pick up his seventh save.
 
The Panthers scored all four of the game's runs in the sixth inning. Brant Schaffitzel got Drury on the board with an RBI-double and later scored on an error. Brandt Ollinger drove in two more runs with a single.
 
In game two, freshman Tom Tewes (2-2) got the win in a complete-game, 7-inning shutout. He allowed four hits, two walks and he struck out four.
 
Drury scored all 11 runs in two innings – a six-run second inning and a five-run fourth.
 
The Panthers second inning started with a solo home run by Ryan Kayhill, his fourth of the year, and would be capped by a three-RBI double by K.K. Daniel. Drury scored five more runs two innings later with two RBI-singles, a William Jewell error, a bases-loaded walk and a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch.
 
Daniel and Bayler Hinz both went 3 for 4 at the plate, and Schaffitzel drove in two runs while extending his hitting streak to 14 games.
 
The two teams continue their series tomorrow with a doubleheader starting at noon at Talley Stadium in Liberty, Missouri.
 
 
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