QUINCY, Ill. – Drury swept Quincy to close their four-game road trip north and improve their win streak to five games. The Panthers improve to 23-17 while the Hawks fall to 6-28.
GAME ONE
Coming off a sweep against Truman State yesterday, the Panthers looked to jump on Quincy early in game one. Drury threatened in the first, but the Hawks gunned down
Sophia Luetticke at the plate to keep the sheet clean early.
The clean sheet did not last long for Quincy. In the second,
Reece Anderson reached first on a two-out error from the Hawks' first baseman. Two batters later, Luetticke would single to left field to score Anderson.
Once again in the third inning,
Reece Anderson reached first on an error with two outs, this one to score
AJ Agers.
The scoring slowed down until the fifth when the Panthers pushed their final three runs across. Anderson knocked two more runs in on a single to score
Brooklyn LaChappa and
Victoria Garland.
Gabrielle Bax would get the final Drury RBI of the game when she scored
Kelsey Palmer on a hit to shortstop.
Quincy scored one in the bottom of the fifth on a single to right field, closing the scoring at 5-1.
Sophia Luetticke and
AJ Agers both went 2-4 in game one.
Reece Anderson had three RBIs in the game.
Kelsey Palmer had three walks from the DP position.
AJ Agers threw her eighth straight complete game allowing five hits.
GAME TWO
Drury came into game two with their bats on fire, scoring four in the first.
Taylor Hartsell,
AJ Agers,
Victoria Garland, and
Kelsey Palmer each recorded one RBI in the inning.
The Panthers added to their four runs in the second inning when
Landry Cochran scored on a Hartsell fielder's choice. Quincy cut the lead in the bottom half of the inning with one run.
Leading 5-1 entering the third inning, Drury looked to extend their advantage, and they did when
Brooklyn LaChappa singled to score
Victoria Garland. The next batter,
Reece Anderson, doubled to score LaChappa.
The 7-1 lead did not knock the Hawks out of it. From the third inning to the fifth inning Quincy scored six unanswered runs to knot it at seven.
Now tied at seven in the sixth,
AJ Agers hit her fifth homer of the season to regain the Drury lead. Quincy had one more hit in the game giving Drury the 8-7 win.
Just like in game one,
AJ Agers and
Sophia Luetticke went 2-4 in game two.
Taylor Hartsell and Agers each had two RBIs in the win.
Natalie Wilks got the start going three innings giving up two runs.
Kaley Adzick relieved Wilks throwing one inning allowing four to score, one earned.
Jordyn Foley was the next pitcher out of the pen for Drury and the winning pitcher improving to 5-6.
AJ Agers shut it down in the seventh inning to pick up her second save of the season.
UP NEXT
The Panthers return to Thompson Field at Meador Park on April 12 for a doubleheader against Rockhurst.
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