Game Coverage (QU):	Live Stats
Game Coverage (MSSU):	Live Stats

ROLLA, Mo. – Fresh off a series win to open Great Lakes Valley Conference play, Missouri S&T heads to the road for the first time in league competition as it faces defending GLVC West Division champion Quincy in a four-game series in Quincy, Ill.

The Miners took three of four from Drury to begin its conference slate last weekend and brings a 16-7 record into the four-game set with Quincy, who split its series with Truman State to begin GLVC play and is 15-5 on the year.  The Hawks are ranked 17th in NCAA Division II in this week's national poll.

S&T opened its series with Drury with a 9-3 victory, then got complete game pitching performances from Keith Coulson (Chesterfield, Mo./Parkway Central) and Aaron Bedsworth (New Bloomfield, Mo./New Bloomfield) to take the next two games of the series before the Panthers blanked S&T in the series finale.

Coulson, who improved to 4-1 with the game two win on Friday, enters the week with a 2.63 earned run average that ranks just outside the top 10 in the GLVC.  Coulson, along with Bedsworth and Dan Borek (Greenville, Wis./Hortonville), have four wins apiece which is tied for second in the conference.

Bedsworth has a team-high 36 strikeouts in 37 1/3 innings and a 3.13 ERA, while Borek has a 4.13 ERA in 28 1/3 innings of work.

At the plate, Eli Miller (Shelbyville, Ill./Shelbyville) comes into the week with a .413 average which ranks in a tie for fifth in the league, while Collin Zurweller (St. Peters, Mo./Fort Zumwalt East) – who was six-of-10 in the Drury series – is hitting .396.  Nick Ulrich (St. Louis, Mo./Vianney), hitting .383 on the year, leads the Miners with three home runs and 24 runs batted in.  Missouri S&T is hitting .310 as a team, the fourth-best mark in the GLVC.

Quincy has the league's second-best team batting average of .320 coming into the weekend and has five regulars hitting .338 or higher.  That group is paced by Ryan Snyder, the league's leading hitter with a .432 average and David Jacob, who is tied with Miller with his average of .413.  Jake Walters is batting .373 and Dominic Miles comes in with a mark of .354.

The power-laden Hawks have hit a league-high 34 home runs on the year, seven of which have come off the bat of Snyder and six more from Walters.  Snyder leads the GLVC in runs batted in with 34 and owns the league's top slugging percentage at .892.

Quincy's pitching staff has recorded a 3.83 earned run average, led by lefthander Jake Peterson – who beat the Miners in the opening round of the GLVC Tournament last May – with a 3-2 record and 3.06 ERA.  Peterson has struck out 32 hitters in 35 1/3 innings this year.

Following the weekend series with Drury, the Miners will open a five-game homestand with a non-conference game next Tuesday against Missouri Southern.  That contest will begin at 2 p.m. at the S&T Ballpark.

Missouri Southern is currently 19-7 on the year heading into a single game with Central Oklahoma Wednesday and a three-game weekend series against Southwest Baptist.