Box Score EVANSVILLE, Ind. – A back-and-forth battle that lasted well into extra innings ended in defeat for Missouri S&T, as Maryville scored twice in the top of the 13^th inning – after the Miners had just extended the game an inning earlier – to take a 6-4 win and eliminate S&T from the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament.

The 13-inning contest, which matched the longest game in Miner history and longest in the history of the GLVC Tournament, was finally decided when Corey Gall singled in a run in the top of the inning and a second run scored as the result of a throwing error on the play.

Maryville took the lead in the opening inning when Eric Keling singled home Kaleb DePew moments after S&T had thrown a runner out at the plate.  That lead held up until the fifth, when the Miners got a leadoff bunt single by Clint Wobbe (St. Louis, Mo./St. Louis University HS), a sacrifice bunt and an RBI single from Kyle Rich (Olathe, Kan./Olathe South) to tie the score.

In the sixth, Will Morrison (Rolla, Mo./Rolla) drew a leadoff walk and following a sacrifice, Sam Adams (Forsyth, Mo./Forsyth) was hit by a pitch.  The Saints pulled starting pitcher Matt Staback for Brandon Sarkission following the hit batter, but Colin Coan (Inver Grove Heights, Minn./South St. Paul) delivered a two-out, two-run single to give the Miners a 3-1 lead.

Chris Bowe (Rolla, Mo./Rolla) carried that lead through the seventh inning, ending that inning by getting Bob Miller to hit into an inning-ending double play.  But in the eighth, Jacob Hinton (Westmoreland, Tenn./Westmoreland) hit the first batter he faced and gave up a hit, prompting a pitching change that brought Reed Brown (Rogers, Ark./Heritage) in from third base to pitch.

The Saints got a hit from DePew to cut the lead to one, then Keling hit a sacrifice fly later in the inning to tie it at three.

S&T had good scoring opportunities in the eighth and ninth squelched by bad luck.  With a runner at second and one out in the eighth, the Miners had Tyler Bodenstab (Independence, Mo./Truman) stealing third, but Coan hit a ball right at the third baseman just as Bodenstab was arriving, resulting in a double play.

In the ninth, S&T again had a runner at second with one out, but Brown lined into an inning-ending double play.

Maryville also escaped a major jam in the 11^th, as Bodenstab reached on an error to open the inning and reached third on a sacrifice and a wild pitch.  Following a pair of intentional walks to load the bases, Sarkission pitched out of it by getting a strikeout and a line out to end the inning.

The Saints regained the lead in the 12^th when Kyle Kinyon singled to open the inning, then a passed ball and two wild pitches brought home the go-ahead run.  But the Miners answered back, as Lockett singled to open the bottom of the inning scored on a two-out, two-strike hit by Bodenstab.

However, DePew singled off John Auble (St. Louis, Mo./Lutheran South) to begin the 13^th, went to second on a hit by Keling and scored when Gall singled into center; a wild throw to third on the play allowed a second run to score on the play.

The Miners got three hits from Morrison and two apiece by Wobbe and Coan as they finished with 11.

Missouri S&T finished the 2013 season with a record of 24-25 and was third in the GLVC West Division with a  22-14 record.