ROLLA, Mo. – After letting a victory slip out of its grasp in the first game of Tuesday's doubleheader with Lindenwood, Missouri S&T rebounded to gain a split of the twinbill with a 3-2 victory in the nightcap.  The Lions the opener 7-5 after scoring three runs with two outs in the top of the seventh.

A quartet of pitchers held Lindenwood to three hits in the second game, allowing the Miners to generate just enough offense to pick up the win.

The Lions took the lead in the opening frame, but the Miners knotted the score an inning later.  Following a leadoff walk to Nick Ulrich (St. Louis, Mo./Vianney) and a sacrifice bunt, John Ceriotti (St. Louis, Mo./St. Louis University HS) singled past the shortstop to bring home Ulrich.

S&T grabbed the lead an inning later after another walk to start the inning, this time to Tyler Bodenstab (Independence, Mo./Truman).  Bodenstab stole second, then after Reed Brown (Rogers, Ark./Heritage) reached on a bunt, he scored on a ground out off the bat of Trevor Karbowski (Standish, Mich./Sterling Central).

Lindenwood tied the game in the fifth on a wild pitch that scored Nathan Prindle, but the Miners regained the advantage in the bottom of the inning.  Brown singled to the opposite field with one out and stole second, then came in to score when Lance Portwood (Edmond, Okla./Edmond Santa Fe) looped a hit down the left field line.

Ethan Krenning (St. Louis, Mo./Lutheran South), the fourth pitcher employed by the Miners in game two, retired six of the seven hitters he faced to pick up the save for Brennan Callaway.  Krenning and Callaway, along with starter Trenton Green (Perryville, Mo./Perryville) and reliever Josh Havig (Dallas, Ore./Dallas), held the Lions to just three hits in the contest.  The Miners had seven hits of their own, two of them by Brown.

In the opener, S&T held a 5-4 lead after Keith Coulson (Chesterfield, Mo./Parkway Central) retired the first hitters in the top of the seventh, but Lindenwood strung together five straight hits to score three times to pull out the win.

Wade Rothermich's triple started the rally, then a misjudged fly ball that would have ended the game fell in for a double to tie the score.  Moments later, Vince Saladino doubled off the fence in left to score Mike Wilson with the go-ahead run.

S&T scored three times in the first after the Lions had scored two in the top half of the inning on a two-run homer by Prindle.  A sacrifice fly by Karbowski plated S&T's first run, then a two-run single by Tyler Johnson (Union, Mo./Union) put the Miners into the lead.

Lindenwood got a run back in the fourth, but the Miners regained their two-run lead in the fifth when Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, Mo./Lutheran-St. Charles) singled with two outs to drive home Johnson.  The Lions got to within a run in the sixth after loading the bases with nobody out, but Devin Muir (Roseburg, Ore./Days Creek) entered the game and got the Miners out of the inning still holding the lead.

The Lions outhit the Miners 14-10 in the first game.  S&T got two hits from Brown, Karbowski, Ulrich and Johnson in the contest. 

The Miners, 4-6 on the season, will open Great Lakes Valley Conference play Saturday when they face Wisconsin-Parkside in the start of a four-game series at the S&T Baseball Field.  The teams will play noon doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday.