RICHMOND – Coach Nick Persell knew his Spartans needed to win at least one of this week’s games with Holden for an outright Missouri River Valley Conference East Division varsity baseball championship. They won both. A 5-3 victory Monday at Holden gave Richmond the title, the program’s first since 2012, senior pitcher and infielder Lucas Rodenberg said. The Spartans punctuated their championship Tuesday with a 1-0 Senior Night win at Southview Park. They finished MRVC East play 9-1, with their only loss coming on April 4 to visiting Knob Noster. The victory also put them at 12-6 overall entering Wednesday’s regular-season finale with visiting Lone Jack. “Holden’s always had a good baseball program since I’ve been here; and for a long time, they’ve had really good teams; … a couple teams that made final-four runs,” Persell said. “So to sweep them and to do it in some games that were really meaningful for the … (division) race was important. And our kids … really stepped up to the…