ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Missouri S&T's baseball team moved closer to the top spot in the Great Lakes Valley Conference's West Division Friday night as it swept a doubleheader at Maryville University.  Junior Zack Gronek (St. Charles, Mo./Francis Howell) picked up his S&T record seventh win of the season with a complete game effort in a 5-1 opening game victory, then the Miners scored two in the seventh and two in the eighth for a come-from-behind 5-3 win in the nightcap.

The wins moved the Miners, 22-15 overall and 15-7 in the GLVC, to within one game of division leader Quincy in the GLVC West.  The Hawks are idle from league play this weekend while S&T will complete the weekend series with Maryville Saturday with a 1 p.m. doubleheader at Weber Field.

In game two, the Miners took a 1-0 lead in the third when Will McCord (Kingman, Ariz./Kingman HS) opened the inning with a hit, stole second and third and scored on Josh Caffrey (Burlington, Iowa/Burlington HS)'s ground out.  However, the Saints answered with three unearned runs in the fourth to take a 3-1 lead that they would carry into the seventh inning.

S&T's top three hitters in the lineup -- McCord, Drew Davenport (McHenry, Ill./McHenry West) and Caffrey -- all singled to load the bases, with Caffrey reaching on a bunt single when he was attempting to move the runners into scoring position.

Ben Pieper (O'Fallon, Mo./St. Dominic) followed by reaching on a fielder's choice that scored McCord, then was on the front end of a double steal that saw Davenport steal home to tie the game at three.

After Nolan Korn (Cedar Hill, Mo./Northwest) pitched around a one-out walk in the seventh to send the game into extra innings, the Miners got two more off reliever Jared Green to pull out the win.

Green hit Grant Brasher (Bridgeton, Mo./DeSmet Jesuit) with a pitch to start the eighth.  Brasher advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Eric Van Dyke (Longmont, Colo./Silver Creek), then Clint Wobbe (St. Louis, Mo./St. Louis University HS) lined a ball down the line in left that dropped just inside the line for a double that allowed Brasher to score.  Wobbe would score himself later in the inning on a wild pitch.

Korn put the first two Maryville hitters on base in the bottom of the eighth with a hit batter and a walk, but got out of the inning with two ground outs after a sacrifice to pick up his fourth win of the season with three innings of relief work.

S&T outhit the Saints 8-7 with McCord getting three hits in the game for the MIners.

Gronek threw 99 pitches in his complete game effort in the nine-inning opener, carrying a shutout for 8 2/3 innings before the Saints got a two-out RBI single from Andy Mariani for their only run.  Gronek allowed nine hits and struck out four to improve to 7-1 on the season.

The teams played scoreless ball until the sixth inning when the Miners plated two runs off Saint starter Cameron Dyer.  Van Dyke led off with an infield hit, advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt and a wild pitch, then scored when Caffrey doubled down the line in right.

One out later, Pieper ripped a double over the head of the leftfielder to give S&T its second run of the inning.

The Miners added three more runs -- all unearned -- in the eighth.  Zach Carter (Perkins, Okla./Perkins-Tryon) drove in two runs with an opposite field double and scored on an RBI single by Davenport with two outs.