Bedsworth scattered eight hits and struck out four to record his first complete game shutout as a Miner.  He pitched out of a couple of early jams and got three double plays to get out of innings along the way, including one in the fifth to prevent the Hawks from tying the game at the time.

After S&T scored in the opening inning on Tyler Bodenstab (Independence, Mo./Truman)'s leadoff single, a sacrifice bunt and two balks by Rockhurst starter Andrew Ellwanger, Bedsworth had just the one run to work with through the next four innings.  He induced a double play ball to end the second, then pitched out of a two-on, one-out situation in the fourth before running into a similar situation an inning later.

With runners at the corners and one out, Brett Marr hit a ball to third and the Miners went to second with the initial throw for the second out.  When Wylson Lamb, the runner on third, tried to score, second baseman Collin Zurweller (St. Peters, Mo./Fort Zumwalt East) threw home to cut down Lamb at the plate to keep the Miners in front.

In the bottom of the fifth, the Miners gave themselves some breathing room with a two-out rally.

Bodenstab doubled down the line in left – ending a string of 12 straight hitters set down by Ellwanger – then Justus Nelson (Plymouth, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong) singled to left and Bodenstab avoided the tag at the plate to score.  Nelson took second on the throw and scored when Eli Miller (Shelbyville, Ill./Shelbyville) slashed a single through the right side of the infield.

Bedsworth set the Hawks down in order in the sixth, then the Miners added four more in the bottom of the inning.  Zurweller drove in two with a double, then S&T picked up another run on an error and the fourth tally of the frame on an RBI triple by Bodenstab, his third hit of game one as the Miners outhit Rockhurst 9-8.

The second game, however, saw Rockhurst score four unearned runs in the first – which unfortunately for the Miners, turned into a sign of things to come as S&T committed six errors in the contest that led to seven unearned runs for the Hawks.
 
S&T got on the scoreboard in the second when Tyler Johnson (Union, Mo./Union) singled and came around to score on Cameron Burk (Nacogdoches, Texas/Cushing)'s triple, but missed a shot at a second run in the inning when Burk left third too early on Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, Mo./Lutheran-St. Charles)'s fly ball and was called out on an appeal at third.

Rockhurst extended its lead to 7-1 in the third, which included another unearned run, before the Miners scored twice in the bottom half on an RBI single by Miller and a bases loaded walk to Zurweller.  However, a double play ended that threat as well as a chance in the fourth for a bigger inning.

The Miners did match a Rockhurst run in the fourth on a run-scoring hit by Nelson, but the Hawks put two more up in the fifth on David Stober's two-run single.

S&T scored its final runs of the contest in the sixth when Bodenstab – who ended up with six hits in Saturday's twinbill – singled home Burk and Miller delivered a sacrifice fly later in the inning.

Nelson also had three hits for the Miners (21-11, 7-5 GLVC), while Miller and Burk had two apiece.  Rockhurst (16-17, 7-5 GLVC) had a 15-12 advantage in hits.

Missouri S&T returns to action next Saturday when its hosts Truman State in a noon doubleheader to begin a four-game weekend series.