purcell glvc
Great Lakes Valley Conference
6
Winner Quincy QU 30-20
2
William Jewell WJC 22-26
Winner
Quincy QU
30-20
6
Final
2
William Jewell WJC
22-26
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Quincy QU 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 6 8 2
William Jewell WJC 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 2

W: Niebrugge, Mark (7-4) L: Patel, Vijay (4-4)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Brendan Bittner

Hawks Rally In Seventh To Advance in GLVC Tournament

QUINCY, Ill. – The Quincy University baseball team got its second consecutive solid pitching effort and scored seven runs in the seventh inning to knock off William Jewell, 6-2, in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament Friday (May 12) night at U.S. Baseball Park in Ozark, Mo.
 
The win puts the Hawks (30-20) just one victory away from the GLVC championship game. Quincy will play again Saturday at 7:30 p.m. against the winner of the Saint Joseph's-Bellarmine game, which will start at 9 a.m. Saturday.
 
The Hawks came into the game having lost 12 of their last 15 games against William Jewell, including dropping three of four to the Cardinals last weekend at QU Stadium.
 
On Friday, Quincy got the pitching performance it needed from senior Mark Niebrugge (Effingham, Ill.), who worked six innings and gave up just one unearned run on six hits.
 
The right-hander allowed a runner to reach on an error in the second, but otherwise did not allow a baserunner of his own accord until he walked Drew Standifer with two down in the third. Garrett McKinzie then ripped a single to center field, but senior Dominic Miles (Quincy, Ill.) overran the ball, allowing Standifer to score from first to give the Cardinals a 1-0 lead.
 
The Cardinals (22-26) sent to the mound Vijay Patel, who struck out 10 Hawks and earned a complete game win at QU Stadium last week. On Friday, he looked dominant again, striking out the side in the first inning.
 
The Hawks had a chance in the second as Patel walked the bases loaded, but escaped by getting two popouts.
 
Quincy tied the game at 1 in the fourth as senior Jack Klages (St. Louis, Mo.) doubled to left and junior Chandler Purcell (Carlyle, Ill.) ripped a two-run single through the middle.
 
Niebrugge kept the Cardinals off-balance in the middle innings, pitching around a leadoff walk in the fifth. Quincy's catcher, Klages, threw out a baserunner in the sixth to end that inning.
 
The Hawks finally broke through again in the seventh, scoring five runs with two outs. QU loaded the bases with a single, walk and hit-by-pitch before sophomore Nolan Snyder (St. Louis, Mo.) laced a bases-clearing double to the gap in left-center to give the Hawks a 4-1 lead. Purcell followed with a single to score Snyder to make it 5-1, and the help of a William Jewell error stretched the lead to five runs later in the inning.
 
Head coach Josh Rabe then turned to his new relief ace Hunter Haynes (Mexico, Mo.), who retired the side in order in the seventh and eighth innings. The lefty ran into trouble in the ninth, but after an RBI groundout, junior Cole Crawford (Wilton, Iowa) slammed the door by striking out pinch-hitter Zach Saalfeld with a runner at second.
 
Niebrugge (7-4) earned the win, striking out eight against only two walks. Patel (4-4) took the loss for the Cardinals, who will play Illinois Springfield in an elimination game Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Haynes allowed one run and struck out four in 2 2/3 relief innings.
 
The Hawks lost to Saint Joseph's, 7-1, in the 2017 season opener and have not played Bellarmine this season.
 
Earlier Friday, Missouri S&T and Southern Indiana were eliminated from the conference tournament. Drury and Quincy remain as the undefeated teams.
 
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