ROLLA, Mo. – Another day of timely hitting propelled Missouri S&T to two wins Sunday, as the Miners kept their unbeaten record intact by taking decisions of 14-5 and 9-1 from Minnesota-Crookston on a windy afternoon at S&T.

With sustained winds blowing at over 20 miles per hours and gusts around 40 throughout the day, the Miners were able to get a jump on the Golden Eagles in the first game by putting a five-spot in the first and never looking back to push their record to 8-0 for the first time in school history.

Following a leadoff single by Tyler Bodenstab (Independence, Mo./Truman), Tyler Johnson (Union, Mo./Union) tripled over the head of the center fielder to put the Miners in the lead.  Trevor Karbowski (Standish, Mich./Sterling Central) then hit a ground ball to third and Johnson, going on a contact play, got caught in a rundown and was able to score when the pitcher couldn't handle a throw at the plate.

Karbowski was retired trying to score himself during the aftermath of the rundown, but Nick Ulrich (St. Louis, Mo./Vianney) followed with a long home run over the fence in left to give S&T a 3-0 lead.

Later in the first, the Miners scored their fourth run on a throwing error and the last when Collin Zurweller (St. Peters, Mo./Fort Zumwalt East) crossed the plate on a Cameron Burk (Nacogdoches, Texas/Cushing) groundout.

S&T added two more in the second and tacked on five more in the fourth – batting around for the second time in the game – highlighted by RBI doubles off the bats of Karbowski, Eli Miller (Shelbyville, Ill./Shelbyville) and Zurweller.

The beneficiary of the offensive support was Dan Borek (Greenville, Wis./Hortonville), who pitched into the fifth to pick up his second win of the season.  Borek struck out six in his 4 2/3 innings of work and allowed only five hits and a walk.

The Miners outhit UMC 11-7 in the opener as Johnson had three hits and Karbowski and Miller had two apiece.

Game two was a much tighter contest until the eighth inning, when S&T scored six times off three UMC pitchers to break the contest open.

S&T took the initial lead in the second when Ulrich led off with a hit and came home on a two-out RBI single by Zurweller.  After the Golden Eagles tied the game in the fourth when they successfully executed a double steal, the Miners regained the advantage in the bottom half of the frame when Lance Portwood (Edmond, Okla./Edmond Santa Fe) drove in Karbowski with a ground out.

The Miners added to the lead in the fifth when the Golden Eagles committed an error on a grounder with two outs to allow Zurweller to score.

S&T starter Ryan Bearden (Kirkwood, Mo./Kirkwood) pitched out of a bases loaded, one-out jam in the fifth and around two baserunners in the sixth to keep the Miners in the lead, before reliever Bryan Nolan (Ballwin, Mo./St. Louis University HS) got a double play ball to close the seventh and Quintan Reed (Smithville, Mo./Smithville) pitched around a one-out hit an inning later.

In the eighth, the Miners sent 11 batters to the plate as they broke loose for six runs.  It started with a pair of walks sandwiched around a sacrifice bunt before the real damage was done after the second out was recorded.

Miller lined a two-out single to left center to score Johnson with the Miners' fourth run of the game, followed by an RBI single by Zurweller and a run-scoring double down the line in left by Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, Mo./Lutheran-St. Charles).  Adam Richter (Breese, Ill./Mater Dei) followed with a two-run single that extended S&T's lead to 8-1; the final Miner run of the eighth came as the result of a throwing error.

Bearden fanned a career-high eight hitters and scattered six hits in six innings to pick up the win.  Ulrich and Zurweller had three hits apiece for the Miners, who outhit the Golden Eagles (0-4) 12-8 in the nightcap.

Missouri S&T returns to action Saturday when it opens a three-game non-conference series against McKendree in Lebanon, Ill.  The teams are scheduled to play a doubleheader Saturday followed by a single contest Sunday.