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ROLLA, Mo. – For the second day in succession, Missouri S&T and Harris-Stowe split a doubleheader at the S&T Baseball Field, with the Miners pulling out the opener 4-3 in 10 innings before the Hornets took the nightcap by a count of 9-7.

The Miners had to rally in extra innings to get their win, as Harris-Stowe got home runs in the seventh inning to tie it and eighth inning to take the lead, but S&T knotted the score after the second home run and got the victory two innings later on a squeeze bunt by Michael Lockett (O'Fallon, Mo./Timberland) that scored Clint Wobbe (St. Louis, Mo./St. Louis University HS).

After three scoreless innings of play, the Miners took the lead in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Lee Voth-Gaeddert (Hesston, Kan./Hesston HS) that scored Lockett.  In the fifth, S&T added to its lead thanks in a part to a sequence of three errors by the Hornets.

Josh Caffrey (Burlington, Iowa/Burlington HS) bunted his way on to start the inning and a wild throw to first allowed him to reach second.  Reed Brown (Rogers, Ark./Heritage) then bunted Caffrey to third, but pitcher Brandon Wehking first bobbled the ball to allow Brown to reach, then fired the throw down the right field line to bring home the Miner baserunner.

The Hornets got an unearned run off S&T starter Chris Bowe (Rolla, Mo./Rolla) in the sixth to cut the lead in half, then Devin Foreman greeted Miner reliever Harry Dunsford (St. Louis, Mo./Mehlville) with a leadoff homer in the seventh to tie the game.  Harris-Stowe would then take the lead an inning later when Blake Dirnberger homered with one out.

S&T came right back in the bottom half of the frame, as Colin Coan (Inver Grove Heights, Minn./South St. Paul) bunted his way on to start the inning, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and to third on a hit by Lockett.  Will Morrison (Rolla, Mo./Rolla) followed by chopping a ball up the first base line that allowed Coan to score the tying run.

In the 10^th, Clint Wobbe (St. Louis, Mo./St. Louis University HS) drew a leadoff walk and was bunted to second, then following a walk to Will McCord (Kingman, Ariz./Kingman HS), Lockett pushed a bunt up the first base line that brought Wobbe across the plate for the victory.

Bowe allowed only six hits and struck out seven in his six innings of work.  Eric Van Dyke (Longmont, Colo./Silver Creek) worked a perfect inning in the 10^th to get the win in relief.

Lockett, who had five hits in the Miners' second game win Saturday, had four of S&T's seven hits in the opener.

The Miners jumped on top in the nightcap, getting their first run as Morrison stroked a two-out triple and came in to score when Voth-Gaeddert reached on an error.  After Voth-Gaeddert stole second, Andy Hall (Rolla, Mo./Rolla HS) singled to the opposite field for the second run of the inning.

But after retiring the Hornets with little trouble in the first two innings, S&T starter Kyle Robertson (Granite City, Ill./Granite City) ran into plenty of difficulties in the third as Harris-Stowe plated six runs.  A two-run double by Cesar Tovar tied the score, then the Hornets took the lead on an RBI single by Javier Martinez.

Later in the inning, Brett Nelson hit a ball that sailed over the head of Voth-Gaeddert in center for a two-run triple and another run scored before the frame came to a close.

S&T cut the lead to 6-4 in the fifth on an RBI double by Jake Brower (Wentzville, Mo./Timberland) and an error moments later that allowed him to score, but Harris-Stowe padded its lead in the sixth with three more runs, including the game's decisive blow when Foreman belted a two-run homer – his fourth of the four-game series – to make it 9-4.

 The Miners got those three runs back in the bottom of the sixth when Brower tripled in two and scored himself when Wobbe's pop fly on the infield fell in.  After a hit by Brown put the tying run on base, HSSU pitcher James Brochu retired McCord on a hard-hit ball to short to end the inning and Caleb Hosey set the Miners down in order in the seventh to wrap up the contest.

The Miners outhit the Hornets 15-12 in the nightcap, with Morrison and Caffrey delivering three hits apiece and Brower driving in three runs with his two hits.  Robertson took the loss on the hill for S&T.

The Miners, 5-3 on the year, will host College of the Ozarks in a four-game series next weekend beginning with a noon doubleheader on Saturday.