St. Louis, Miss. – Saginaw Valley State University baseball dropped game two of three to Maryville University Saturday afternoon at Weber Baseball Field.

The Cardinals (2-3) took a three-run lead in the fifth before the Saints (1-4) stormed back to win 13-5. Four home runs including two grand slams were hit. Maryville deposited three of them over the outfield wall.

Ryan Adams (0-0) started for the Cardinals and went five innings. The Saints hit a solo home run in the first before Martin Money doubled home a run to tie it 1-1 in the top of the third. Another solo bomb for Maryville made it 2-1 giving them their second lead of the game.

In the fifth, Tucker Roe singled, Colin Cornwell reached on a fielder's choice, Money reached on a hit-by-pitch, and then Austin Schweiger singled to load the bases. Philip Reinhardt (W, 1-0) came in to pitch for Maryville. That's when Jaccar Watkins stepped up and hit the first home run of the Cardinal season. A grand slam to make it 5-2 SVSU. Three of the four runs were credited to the Saints starter Ben Gregory (0-0).

In the bottom of the fifth, Maryville struck back with two runs to cut into the lead. Steven Hecht (L, 0-1) relieved Adams in the sixth and gave up six runs on two hits, one of them being a grand slam. When the dust settled, the Saints had a 10-5 lead.

Maryville tallied three more runs in the seventh extending their lead to eight. Carson Bassett pitched a scoreless eighth, striking out three of the four batters he faced.

The Cardinal bats were cooled down in the final four innings and Maryville evened up the three-game series at one a piece.

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SVSU baseball has one more game in St. Louis on Sunday before getting ready for the nine-game trip to Florida at the beginning of March.