Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 LIBERTY, Mo. – Missouri S&T's bid to land a spot in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Baseball Tournament took a hit Saturday as William Jewell swept a doubleheader from the Miners, winning by scores of 4-3 and 5-2 at Talley Stadium.

The Miners fell to 11-16 in GLVC play with the two setbacks and have just eight games remaining, including their final home series next weekend against Maryville.

After spotting the Cardinals a 2-0 lead in the first, the Miners came back with three in the third to take the lead.  Reed Brown (Rogers, Ark./Heritage) walked to open the inning, then Tyler Bodenstab (Independence, Mo./Truman) reached on an error.  With one out, Trevor Karbowski (Standish, Mich./Sterling Central) singled home Brown to put the Miners on the scoreboard, followed by a Lance Portwood (Edmond, Okla./Edmond Santa Fe) single to load the bases.

Nick Ulrich (St. Louis, Mo./Vianney) singled after the Portwood hit to drive in Bodenstab and Karbowski to give the Miners a 3-2 lead.

With the advantage, S&T starter Micah Dohlen (Kent, Wash./Kent Lake) set the Cardinals down in order in the third and fourth innings, but ran into trouble after allowing a leadoff single in the fifth.  Following a sacrifice bunt and a hit, Dohlen got a strikeout of Hunter Bingham, but then allowed a run-scoring single to Hunter Brown to tie the contest and a go-ahead RBI double to Sam Morman.

The Miners got runners on base in the sixth and seventh innings, but lost a runner on the bases in the sixth and hit into a game-ending double play in the seventh.

The Cardinals outhit the Miners 10-7; Portwood and Ulrich had two hits apiece for S&T.

Missouri S&T scored first in the nightcap on Portwood's RBI single in the opening inning, but the Cardinals tied it in the second and took the lead in the third when a wild pitch scored the go-ahead run.

William Jewell extended the lead to 4-1 in the fifth before the Miners scored in the sixth on an RBI ground out by Portwood.  S&T left two runners on base in that inning and again in the seventh as it left seven on base for the contest.

Miner starter Aaron Bedsworth (New Bloomfield, Mo./New Bloomfield), who threw the first 4 2/3 innings, was tagged with the loss.  Bodenstab and Ulrich had two of S&T's seven hits in game two.

S&T, 17-24 overall, will open the four-game series against Maryville with a 1 p.m. doubleheader next Saturday.