Panthers split doubleheader with Quincy

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.— Drury and Quincy split a doubleheader on Friday. The Panthers won game one 9-4 and dropped the second game 10-2.
 
Drury’s record went to 13-12 and 11-4 in the Great Lakes Valley  Conference, while the Hawks moved their record to 10-17 and 7-8 in the GLVC.
 
Luke Burk homered twice in game one and finished the game going 2 for 4 with four RBIs. The two bombs were his 10^th and 11^th of the year, surpassing his season total of 10 from last season.
 
The Panthers trailed 2-1 in the fifth, but put up four runs in the bottom half of the inning, highlighted by Burk’s three-run home run. Quincy scored two runs in the top of sixth to pull within a run, but Drury put the game away with four more runs in the sixth.
 
Cade Waits (5-0) got the complete-game win going all seven innings. Waits allowed six hits, four runs and four earned runs with two walks and seven strikeouts.
 
Drury’s game one win ran their winning streak to six games.
 
Quincy put up 10 runs and 13 hits in game two to earn a doubleheader split with a 10-2 win.
 
The Hawks scored three runs in the third, then two more in the fifth. Drury scored a run in the fifth, then another in the sixth to pull within three, 5-2. Quincy scored five times in the seventh to put the game away.
 
Connor Bain went 3 for 3 with a walk for the Panthers in the second game.
 
The four-game series concludes on Saturday with the first pitch at noon at Mark Worley Field at Meador Park.  
 
 
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