Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T's baseball team managed to score only four runs in Sunday's doubleheader with Wisconsin-Parkside at the S&T Baseball Field, but thanks to a solid pitching effort from Eric Van Dyke (Longmont, Colo./Silver Creek) and Reed Brown (Rogers, Ark./Heritage) in the opener, came away with a split of the twinbill.

The Miner pitching duo held the Rangers to a single run in a 2-1 opening game win, but UW-Parkside got the nightcap 9-2 to come away with two victories in the three games played over the weekend.

Van Dyke threw the first six innings of the opener and scattered six hits along the way, while pitching out of a pair of dicey situations in his final two frames.  In the fifth, the Rangers had a runner at second with one out after scoring in the inning, but he got a ground ball and a fly out to retire the side without any more damage was done.

In the sixth, UW-Parkside loaded the bases with one out, but Van Dyke got a called third strike on Nick Janssen and then got Nick Zarek to hit into a fielder's choice to escape that jam.

Brown set down the top of the Rangers' order in succession in the seventh, getting two fine defensive plays from shortstop Adam Richter (Breese, Ill./Mater Dei) to end the game.  After making a leaping catch of a soft liner for the second out, Richter made a diving grab of a liner by Jake Kolasinski for the final out of the contest.

The Miners scored both of their runs in the fourth after UW-Parkside starter Josh Serio had three straight perfect innings to open the contest.  Tyler Bodenstab (Independence, Mo./Truman) led off the inning with a double and came in to score on an opposite field single by Lance Portwood (Edmond, Okla./Edmond Santa Fe).  Following a hit by Trevor Karbowski (Standish, Mich./Sterling Central) that sent him to third, Michael Lockett (O'Fallon, Mo./Timberland) hit a sacrifice fly to bring Portwood home with what turned out to be the decisive run of the contest.

Karbowski had two of the Miners' five hits in the opener, as the Rangers outhit S&T 6-5.

In the second game, the Rangers jumped on top right off the bat as Zach Cunningham tripled to open the contest and scored on Zach Thompson's sacrifice fly.  S&T tied the game in the fourth when Jake Brower (Wentzville, Mo./Timberland) led that inning off with a triple and crossed the plate on a ground out by Richter.

But in the fifth, the wheels came off on the Miners after the second out was recorded.

With a runner at second with two outs, Cunningham hit a ball that sailed over Bodenstab's head in left center to score Pat Cottrell with the go-ahead run.  That was followed by a walk and four consecutive hits that ended the day for starter Kyle Robertson (Granite City, Ill./Granite City) before the inning ended with UWP up 6-1.

The big blow in that run was a two-run triple off the bat of Juan Bowers, who drove in four runs for the Rangers (2-5) in the second game.

S&T scored in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Reed Brown (Rogers, Ark./Heritage), but UW-Parkside scored again in the seventh and added two more tallies in the ninth.

The Miners were outhit 11-9 in game two, with Bodenstab, Karbowski and Lockett all coming through with two hits each. 

Missouri S&T, now 5-8 on the season, will open its Great Lakes Valley Conference schedule Saturday when it opens a four-game series at Illinois Springfield.