Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 (Rolla, Mo.) - The comeback kids were at again as the Missouri S&T Lady Miners rallied from a 3-1 deficit scoring three times in the bottom of the seventh to win the opener against Central Missouri 4-3 on Wednesday afternoon in Rolla. The Jennies won the nightcap 6-1.

The Jennies (9-7) jumped on top first in the opener as Medora West opened the contest with a triple to center field. She scored five pitches later as Braylyn Bivens singled to center. The Jens had a chance for more with runners at second and third and only one out but Taylor Keal (Blue Springs, Mo./Blue Springs South) got out of the jam with a strikeout and a groundout to short to end the inning.

S&T (5-10) answered in the bottom of the inning. Lauren Briggs (LaMonte, Mo./Knob Noster) led off with a single to center and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Maggie Schroeder (Bonner Springs, Kan./Basehor-Linwood). She advanced to third on Kaylea Smith (Blue Springs, Mo./Blue Springs)'s groundout to first and scored on Rachel Glenn (Chicago, Ill./Marion Catholic)'s single down the left field line. Just like the Jennies in the top of the first the Lady Miners had a chance for more loading the bases with two out but a strikeout by Kate Runyan (Crown Point, Ind./Boone Grove) ended the inning.

UCM retook the lead in the second scoring on a dropped throw at first which would of been the the third out of the inning.

Neither side scored again until the seventh. Bivens led off and singled back up the middle. She moved to second on a sacrifice and then advanced to third on a passed ball. Jakki Prater drove her in with a single to right. Keal got out of the inning inducing an inning ending double play ball to Lindsey DeForest (Fulton, Mo./North Callaway).

In the bottom of the inning S&T got a lead-off pinch hit single from Adrienne Kruse (Edwardsville, Ill./Edwardsville) to start. After a flyout and wild pitch moved DeForest, running for Kruse, to second, Maggie Schroeder (Bonner Springs, Kan./Basehor-Linwood) singled to center on a 3-1 offering to put runners on the corner. Smith flew out to right for the second out but the throw back in wasn't cut off and Schroeder took second on the play and DeForest came home to score on the throw to second.

Glenn then tied the game with a single to center bringing Schroeder home and she advanced to second on the throw to the plate. Shelby Michaelis (Bettendorf, Iowa/Bettendorf) came in to pinch run for her and came around to score the winning run on Abby Lunn (Hazelwood, Mo./Hazelwood West )'s single through the left side. For Lunn it was her third hit of the game.

The Lady Miners outhit the Jennies 10-7 in the contest as four players had multiple hits led by Lunn. Briggs, Schroeder and Glenn had two hits apiece. Keal got the win allowing three runs, one earned, on seven hits while walking three and striking out three.

In the nightcap UCM jumped on top with three runs in the first. Prater delivered a two-run double to left and then Norberg grounded into a fielder's choice to Becca Strope (Glen Carbon, Ill./Edwardsville). Strope trapped Prater in between second and third and was evenutally tagged out by Schroeder. Norberg went to second on the play and came around to score as Schroeder's throw to second was high and went into right field.

The Jennies added another run in the second.

S&T got one of those runs back in the fourth. With two away Dana Lawson (Wildwood, Mo./Lafayette) reached on an error by the second baseman. She then stole second and scored on Briggs's single to left center.

UCM added single tallies in the fifth and sixth for the final margin.

Both sides finished with five hits in game two, but S&T committed five errors allowing a pair of runs to score.

Sarah Espy slienced the Lady Miner bats pitching a complete game five-hitter striking out three while walking five.

Strope started for S&T and took the loss allowing four runs, three earned, on four hits. She struck out two and walked three.

Glenn added two more hits in the nightcap.

The Lady Miners are back in action this weekend traveling to Evansville, Ind., for a matchup against Southern Indiana on Saturday. The doubleheader begins at 12 p.m.