Missouri S&T won the completion of a suspended game to start a long day of baseball Sunday at the S&T Baseball Field, then followed that by winning the first game of the scheduled doubleheader to win the weekend series from Missouri-St. Louis.

 

The Miners broke an eight-all tie by scoring four run in the top of the sixth when Saturday's suspended game resumed and went on to a 13-8 victory. S&T carried that momentum into a fast start in the first scheduled game as it won 8-2 before the Tritons took the series finale 4-2.

 

UMSL – the home team for the four games of the series after it was been moved to Rolla -- had scored five runs in the bottom of the fifth to tie the score before impending darkness forced play to be halted.

 

But the Miners came right out of the gate Sunday to get the lead, starting with a one out walk to Grant Johnson (LaSalle, Ill./St. Bede Academy). After Johnson stole second, Brandon Cogan (Missouri City, Texas/Hightower) singled up the middle to bring in the go-ahead run. 

 

Following a walk to Louie Joseph (Bloomington, Ill./Central Catholic), the Miners got back-to-back RBI singles from Eaf Redden (Gunter, Texas/Gunter) and Thomas McCormick (Kingwood, Texas/Kingwood) to extend the lead, then got their fourth run of the inning on a sacrifice fly by Cody Bass (Chattanooga, Okla./Chattanooga).

 

S&T added another tally in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Cogan.

 

The Miners had 10 hits in the game, getting two apiece from Redden, McCormick and Bass. Redden had a home run in the game as did Zach Carter (Perkins, Okla./Perkins-Tryon) in S&T's five-run first inning.

 

Jordan Buck (Pacific, Mo./Pacific) got the win in relief, while Cogan pitched the final two innings as a prelude to his second game performance where he allowed only three hits over six innings.

 

The Tritons got all three of their hits off Cogan in the fourth inning when they scored both of their runs, but S&T had already built a 7-0 lead by the time UMSL got on the scoreboard.

 

Cogan got all the runs he needed in the first inning as S&T scored three times – all unearned -- getting its first run on an RBI single by Redden and the next two after two were out on run-scoring hits by Will Morrison (Rolla, Mo./Rolla) and Tim Kerouac (Bourbonnais, Ill./Bishop McNamara).

 

Kerouac drove in two more runs in the contest on RBI singles in the third and seventh innings. S&T scored three additional unearned runs in the third, one on a throwing error that brought home Kyle Klabunde (Omaha, Neb./Roncalli Catholic), then another when an error extended the inning and allowed another runner to score.

 

Cogan, who had two hits himself in the first game, threw four 1-2-3 innings in the six innings he worked in game one and got a double play to get out of a two-on, none-out situation in the sixth.

 

In the final game of the day, the Miners missed a good scoring chance early in the game when they loaded the bases in the second but came away empty, then couldn't get their offense untracked against UMSL's Justin Rodgers.

 

The Tritons took the lead with four straight two-out hits in the third, the last a two-run single by Colin O'Neal. UMSL would extend its advantage with unearned runs in the fourth and fifth innings.

 

The Miners scored in the fourth when Kerouac drove in Carter with a two-out hit, then drew to within 4-2 in the seventh when Andrew Vance (Stilwell, Kan./Blue Valley ) – who singled to open the inning – came home on a wild pitch.

 

S&T had the tying run in scoring position in the ninth and eventually loaded the bases with two outs, but Seth Cockrum got McCormick to ground out to end the contest.

 

The Miners (13-24, 6-5 GLVC West) had only six hits in the game, two of them coming from Kerouac who had five hits in the doubleheader.  Zack Gronek (St. Charles, Mo./Francis Howell) took the loss on the mound for the Miners.

 

S&T will play a non-conference game at Missouri Southern Wednesday at 6 p.m., before returning to Great Lakes Valley Conference play Saturday when it hosts Southern Indiana at the S&T Baseball Field.