CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Missouri S&T suffered a heartbreaking loss Tuesday night, falling 11-10 in 10 innings to Southeast Missouri State – in a game it thought it had won an inning earlier.

S&T thought it had the victory after turning an apparent game-ending double play, but a reversal of the call on the back end of the play allowed the tying run to score and extended the contest.  Southeast then won it in the 10^th on Dalton Hewitt's single with the bases loaded.

In the early innings, it was the Miners who had control of the contest as they jumped out to a big lead against a Redhawk team that entered the game ranked fourth in NCAA Division I in runs scored per game.

The Miners started their scoring right out of the gate, as Tyler Bodenstab (Independence, Mo./Truman) drew a leadoff walk and came around to score on Tyler Johnson (Union, Mo./Union)'s double down the left field line.  Trevor Karbowski (Standish, Mich./Sterling Central) followed with a hit to score Johnson to give the Miners a two-run lead.

Southeast tied the game in the bottom of the inning on solo home runs off the bat of Jason Blum and Andy Lennington, but S&T answered back with two more in the second, an inning that began with a double by Nick Ulrich (St. Louis, Mo./Vianney).

After Ulrich was moved up to third on Adam Richter (Breese, Ill./Mater Dei)'s sacrifice bunt, Collin Zurweller (St. Peters, Mo./Fort Zumwalt East) singled through the right side to put the Miners back in front and then scored when Bodenstab singled after Zurweller reached third on a pair of wild pitches.

Peter Williams' two-out double in the second drove in a run to bring the Redhawks back to within a run, but the Miners got that run back on Reed Brown (Rogers, Ark./Heritage)'s two-out home run in the third.

Mack Preston (Shawnee, Kan./Shawnee Mission Northwest) kept Southeast off the scoreboard in the bottom of the third, then S&T broke loose for five runs in the fourth to build its lead to 10-3.

With one out, Zurweller singled and Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, Mo./Lutheran-St. Charles) doubled into the corner in left to bring home the first run. Following a hit by Bodenstab, Johnson singled in a run to make it 7-3.

Karbowski hit into a fielder's choice as Bodenstab was cut down at the plate, but Lance Portwood (Edmond, Okla./Edmond Santa Fe) singled home Johnson and Brown doubled over the head of the centerfielder to score two more runs.

Southeast began to chip away at the Miner lead, scoring three in the fifth – two on a home run by Garrett Gandolfo, two more in the seventh on a two-run homer by Branden Boggetto and another in the eighth to get within a run.

In the ninth, the Redhawks got a pair of infield hits around a sacrifice bunt before pinch-hitter Scott Mitchell hit a ball back to the mound.  Miner reliever Micah Dohlen (Kent, Wash./Kent Lake) went to second for the first out, then the throw to first appeared to be in time to complete the double play.

Mitchell was called out, but after the umpires conferred on the call, he was ruled safe as it was deemed that Portwood, the first baseman, had left the bag before the ball arrived. Hewitt, the runner at third who crossed the plate on the play, scored the tying run.

In the 10^th, after the Miners were set down in order, the Redhawks (29-15) -- the current leader in the Ohio Valley Conference -- loaded the bases against S&T's eighth of nine pitchers, Ryan Bearden (Kirkwood, Mo./Kirkwood), before Hewitt hit a ball into the gap in left center to end the game.

Each team finished with 15 hits, with Johnson leading the Miners with three.  Brown drove in three runs with his two hits, while getting two hits and a RBI from Bodenstab and Zurweller.

S&T (23-22), however, had only three hits over the final 6 1/3 innings against two of the top pitchers out of the Southeast bullpen, Ryan Lenaburg and Alex Siddle.

The Miners will wrap up their Great Lakes Valley Conference schedule with a four-game series at Rockhurst, beginning with a noon doubleheader Saturday in Kansas City, Mo.