QUINCY, Ill. – The rallying cry of post-season sports – survive and advance – was in full force for Missouri S&T Saturday afternoon as it stayed alive in the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional by outlasting Grand Valley State in a 2-1 thriller in 10 innings.

Nick Ulrich (St. Louis, Mo./Vianney) drove in Tyler Bodenstab (Independence, Mo./Truman) with a one-out single in the 10^th to eliminate the second-seeded Lakers (36-18-1) and send S&T (37-18) to a matchup with Great Lakes Valley Conference West Division rival Quincy, the tournament's top seed, on Sunday at noon.

After Bodenstab had singled to open the 10^th against GVSU closer Matt Williams – the national leader in saves and who entered the game with an earned run average of 0.65 – Bodenstab stole second and scored when Ulrich ripped Williams' first pitch to him past the mound and into center, allowing the Miner centerfielder to come home with the winning run as the Miners won their second straight elimination game in the tournament.

Saturday's game turned into a pitcher's duel between the two sides, as each team was held in check throughout the day until the Miners broke through in the 10^th.

Keith Coulson (Chesterfield, Mo./Parkway Central) held the Lakers off the scoreboard for the first four innings, retiring 12 straight hitters in one stretch, before the Miners got on the scoreboard without the benefit of a hit in the fourth.

Eli Miller (Shelbyville, IL/Shelbyville) drew a leadoff walk and stole second, then took third on a ground out by Ulrich and scored on a ground ball to the right side of the infield by Trevor Karbowski (Standish, Mich./Sterling Central) to give S&T the lead.

Grand Valley State answered back in the fifth when Josh Griffith ended Coulson's run of retired batted with a one-out single and later scored with two outs on a hit by Johnny Nate.

The three hits in the fifth were half of the six allowed by Coulson in his nine innings of work, as he walked just one and struck out three.  He also got some help from his defense, including a diving stop by third baseman Adam Richter (Breese, IL/Mater Dei) that led to an inning-ending double play to close the seventh after the Lakers got two runners on base.

S&T loaded the bases in the seventh with two outs but couldn't score, then had runners on base in the eighth and ninth and were unable to get the go-ahead run across.

Ethan Krenning (St. Louis, Mo./Lutheran South), who was credited with the win in relief, took over on the mound for Coulson as the game went into extra innings and walked Nate on four pitches to open the inning, but retired the next three hitters, including a three-pitch strikeout of Williams to end the frame.

The Miners outhit the Lakers 8-6, with Bodenstab and Portwood getting two hits apiece.