MONTICELLO, Ark. – After gaining a split of their season-opening doubleheader on Saturday, Missouri S&T was knocked off in both games on Sunday's twinbill at Arkansas-Monticello. The Boll Weevils won the opener 4-2 and took a rain-shortened 3-1 decision in the nightcap.

The Miners opened the day by scoring in the opening inning for the third game in a row. In the first, Brandon Cogan (Missouri City, Texas/Hightower) led off with a double, moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Drew Davenport (McHenry, Ill./McHenry West) and scored on a groundout by Matt Kempin (Wichita, Kan./Trinity Academy).

UAM tied the game in the bottom half of the inning and scored again in the second off Miner starter Caleb Lambert (Romulus, Mich./Inter-City Baptist) to take the lead, then S&T knotted the score in its half of the third when Hunter Scheib (Lawrence, Kan./Free State) belted a one-out solo home run.

However, the Boll Weevils regained the advantage in the bottom half of the frame on Brian Johnson's RBI single and added an insurance run in the sixth.

The Miners were held to three hits in the opener, getting the third one in the sixth when they had runners on second and third with two outs but couldn't bring the tying run across.

Lambert took the loss on the mound, despite striking out six in five innings of work.

In the second game, the game was scoreless through the first three innings, then UAM broke on top with three in the bottom of the fourth. S&T starter Drew Pyles (White Lake, Mich./West Bloomfield) retired the Boll Weevils in order in each of the first three innings, but a leadoff triple by Wayne Hawkins got the rally started in the fourth. That runner scored on a hit by Matt Whiting, then Noah Sanders and Drew Harper had RBI doubles later in the inning.

S&T got one run back in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Kempin, but left the tying runs on base as the inning ended. The game was then called due to rain.

Pyles took the loss, allowing three runs and four hits in four innings with five strikeouts. Cogan had two of the Miners' four hits in the nightcap.

Due to the recent snowfall in the Rolla area, Missouri S&T's schedule has been revised for the next week. The Miners (1-3) will play Friday against Henderson State in Arkadelphia, Ark., then stay there to play Northwest Missouri State in a doubleheader Saturday.