ROLLA, Mo. – Thanks to some early scoring in game one and late scoring in game two, Missouri S&T dropped both games of its Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader Sunday to William Jewell at the S&T Baseball Field.

The Cardinals grabbed an early lead and went on to a 5-1 victory in the opener, then scored four times over the course of the sixth and seventh innings and held off a late rally effort by S&T to win 5-3 in the second contest.

In the opener, the Cardinals scored in the opening inning as they loaded the bases and got a sacrifice fly from Jared Patton.  S&T starter Reed Brown (Rogers, Ark./Heritage) was able to pitch out of the inning to keep any additional runs from scoring.  However, William Jewell added to its lead in the second with a pair of runs, then scored again in the fourth on an RBI single by Bryan Porting. 

The Miners got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth as they got consecutive hits from Trevor Karbowski (Standish, Mich./Sterling Central), Lance Portwood (Edmond, Okla./Edmond Santa Fe) and Nick Ulrich (St. Louis, Mo./Vianney) to start the inning, then a sacrifice fly with one out by Brandon Farley (Vancouver, Wash./Heritage) scored Karbowski. 

William Jewell scored again in the fifth on a two-out RBI single by Bryan Rezin, then the Miners had another scoring chance in the bottom half of the inning when Tyler Bodenstab (Independence, Mo./Truman) doubled with one out, but Cardinal starter Austin Kretchmar pitched out of it to keep the score at 5-1.

Karbowski and Ulrich had two hits apiece for S&T in the first game as it was outhit 10-6.

The Cardinals opened the second game scoring in the first – they scored in the opening inning of all four games of the series – on Sam Morman's RBI single, but the Miners knotted it up in the fifth when Ulrich led off with a hit, moved around to third on Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, Mo./Lutheran-St. Charles)'s two-out double and scored on Billy Kirkpatrick's wild pitch.

After giving up the first inning tally, S&T starter Keith Coulson (Chesterfield, Mo./Parkway Central) retired the next 11 Cardinal hitters before Coleman Waheed reached on an error to start the fifth.  Coulson picked him off second with one out to avert any further damage, but after the Miners tied the score, the Cardinals moved back into the lead in the sixth on a double by Rezin and a throwing error that allowed him to score.

S&T tied things back up in the bottom of the sixth as Karbowski singled and took second when the left fielder bobbled the ball, which was followed by a sacrifice bunt and a run-scoring single by Brown.

In the Cardinal seventh, Andrew Miller led off with a hit and ended up at third following a sacrifice and a wild pitch.  Dane Erbst singled him home to put Jewell back on top, then following a two-out walk to Rezin, Luke Lucchetti tripled to the fence in right to score both runners.

Ulrich homered on Chris Mancha's first pitch of the ninth inning to cut the lead to 5-3 and Farley followed by doubling over the head of Morman in left to get the tying run to the plate.   However, Mancha got two strikeouts and a ground ball to squelch the Miner rally.

Coulson went the distance on the mound for the Miners, allowing just six hits and striking out five.  Karbowski and Ulrich had two hits apiece for S&T as it outhit the Cardinals (33-12, 22-10 GLVC) – the top-ranked team in the NCAA's Midwest Region – 9-8.

S&T (23-21, 17-15 GLVC), which closed its home schedule with Sunday's twinbill, will play a single game Tuesday at Southeast Missouri State (5 p.m. start time) before closing its GLVC schedule next Saturday and Sunday at Rockhurst.  The Miners are currently in a battle to land one of the spots in the GLVC Tournament.