SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A seventh inning uprising netted five runs for Missouri S&T in game two of its doubleheader Saturday afternoon, allowing the Miners to come away with a split of its twinbill at Illinois Springfield.  The Miners captured the second game 5-2 after falling 3-2 in the opener.

S&T was stifled for much of the second contest by Prairie Star righthander Jose Marin, who held the Miners to one hit through the first six innings. But that changed in the seventh, beginning when Cameron Burk (Nacogdoches, Texas/Cushing) reached second on an error to start the inning.

Trevor Karbowski (Standish, Mich./Sterling Central) bunted his way on and stole second, before Nick Ulrich (St. Louis, Mo./Vianney) drove in both runners with a hit to the opposite field to put S&T on top and end the day on the hill for Marin.

Later in the seventh, Matt Reschke (Darien, Ill./Hinsdale South) drove in a run with a two-out single, then S&T executed a successful double steal with Reschke and Eli Miller (Shelbyville, Ill./Shelbyville) to get a fourth run across the plate.  The Miners' fifth run in the inning came as the result of an error on a ball off the bat of Tyler Bodenstab (Independence, Mo./Truman) that scored Tyler Schutt (Katy, Texas/Cinco Ranch).

UIS got its other run in the fourth, when an error with two outs led to the first run of the contest on Austin Peterson's RBI single.

Dan Borek (Greenville, Wis./Hortonville) allowed only three hits in six innings of work and the one unearned run to improve to 3-1 on the year.  Luke Marcheschi (Bloomington, Ill./Central Catholic) threw two scoreless innings in back of Borek and Trent Green (Perryville, Mo./Perryville) pitched the ninth; UIS scored an unearned run in that inning.

Karbowski had two hits in a game where the Miners were outhit 7-5 by the Prairie Stars.

In game one, both teams had opportunities in the early innings, as the Miners got two runners on in the first and the Prairie Stars had two on in the second, but both teams lost a runner on the bases to scuttle those chances.

UIS took the lead with an unearned run with two outs in the inning; an error by the Miners allowed the first run to score.  The Prairie Stars then tacked on two runs in the fifth on Adam Warda's squeeze bunt and an RBI single by Jason Galeano.

S&T, who had gone down in order in the fourth and fifth innings, rallied in the sixth on back-to-back doubles by Tyler Bodenstab (Independence, Mo./Truman) and Trevor Karbowski (Standish, Mich./Sterling Central), followed by a two-run single by Nick Ulrich (St. Louis, Mo./Vianney) that cut the margin to one.  However, a double play got UIS out of the sixth with the lead.

The Prairie Stars (3-5) went to their bullpen with the one-run lead in the seventh, but Collin Zurweller (St. Peters, Mo./Fort Zumwalt East) greeted Richard England with a leadoff single.  However, after S&T (10-5) failed to move the runner up with a bunt, a lineout double play ended the contest.

Karbowski had two of the Miners' six hits in the opener as they matched UIS in the hit department.  Starting pitcher Aaron Bedsworth (New Bloomfield, Mo./New Bloomfield) took the loss on the hill despite giving up only two earned runs and striking out three in six innings of work.

The Miners will wrap up their weekend series with the Prairie Stars with a single game on Sunday beginning at noon.