Drury opens four-game series against Quincy today
The Drury Panthers host Quincy in a four-game series starting Thursday at the newly renovated Mark Worley Field at Meador Park. Thursday's game is slated for a 3 p.m. start, then Friday moves to a doubleheader with game one scheduled for noon. The series concludes Saturday, with the first pitch set for 12 p.m.
The series marks the first meeting
All times Eastern
Thursday, March 28
Men’s College Basketball
7:09 p.m.
CBS — Clemson vs. Arizona
7:39 p.m.
TBS — San Diego State vs. UConn
9:39 p.m.
CBS — Alabama vs. North Carolina
10:09 p.m.
TBS — Illinois vs. Iowa State
NHL
7:30 p.m.
ESPN+/HULU — Detroit at Carolina since the two teams played for the Great Lakes Valley Conference championship last spring. The Hawks won the GLVC championship and advanced to last year's NCAA-II Super Regional and ended the year with a 4711 record.
The Panthers are 11-11 and 9-3 in the GLVC after completing a four-game series sweep of Upper Iowa last weekend. Quincy is 9-15 and 6-6 in the conference and will come to Springfield having split a four-game series against Rockhurst last week.
NBA
8 p.m.
NBATV — Milwaukee at New Orleans
MLB
4:10 p.m.
MLBN — Toronto at Tampa Bay MLBN — St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers
7:35 p.m.
ESPN — Chicago Cubs at Texas
10:10 p.m.
MLBN — Colorado at Arizona
MLBN — Boston at Seattle
Drury is expected to start left-hander Cody Bahl in Thursday's game. The junior from Lee's Summit, Missouri, is 4-1 with a 2.22 earned run average and has struck out 41 while allowing just eight walks in 44.2 innings. Bahl owns the best ERA in the league, and he is tied for the conference lead in strikeouts.
Panthers first baseman Luke Burk is tied for the conference lead in home runs with nine. The Galena native is hitting .320 and has a team-leading 30 runs batted in.
The 2024 season has marked a return to Drury's original home field after an eight-year absence. The Drury baseball program raised more than $1.5 million to overhaul the ballpark with new turf and a new outfield wall, among other amenities.
Friday's doubleheader is Kid's Day at Mark Worley Field at Meador Park with several classes from a Springfield elementary school in attendance for the first game of the twinbill.
Lady Panthers’ Schaaf named NCAA-II All-American
Drury forward Reese Schaaf was named an NCAA-II All-American but the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and the Division 2 Conference
Commissioners Association during the last week.
Schaaf averaged 16.6 points and a conference-leading 9.9 rebounds for a Lady Panthers team that went 25-7 and reached the NCAA-II Tournament for the 11th year in a row. The sophomore from El Dorado Springs, Missouri, led the Great Lakes Valley Conference in field goal percentage with a mark of .575, and her 18 double-doubles led the league and were the fifthmost in Division II. Schaaf was also among the league leaders in free throw shooting, putting up a mark of .812.
She broke Drury's single-season rebounding record with 317 boards during the year, topping Hailey Diestelkamp's mark of 316 in 2019. Schaff 's 24 rebounds against Upper Iowa on February 29 set a program single-game record, surpassing Melanie Oliver's 22-rebound game on Feb. 6, 2010. She also joined Diestelkamp as she became the second player in program history to score 500 points and grab 300 rebounds in a single season.
Schaaf was also named the Midwest Region Player of the Year and a First Team All-Region selection by the D2CCA during this postseason. She was selected as the GLVC Player of the Year and was unanimously selected as a First Team All-GLVC performer.
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