AUSTIN, Texas – Missouri S&T needed a few extra innings to pick up a win in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader with 10th-ranked St. Edward's, scoring twice in the top of the 12^th to take a 4-3 decision before the Hilltoppers gained a split with a 12-3 win in game two.

Pinch-hitter Zach Wiegand (Coppell, TX/Parish Episcopal) opened the 12^th with an infield single and went to third on Eli Miller (Shelbyville, IL/Shelbyville)'s hit as Miller took second on the throw.  Following an intentional walk to Nelson, but the Hilltoppers forced two runners at the plate after the Miners were unable to get a ball out of the infield before Adam Richter (Breese, IL/Mater Dei) put the Miners on top with a single to right.

Matt Reschke (Darien, IL/Hinsdale South) followed by drawing a walk to force in the second run of the inning, which turned out to be a critical one as St. Edward's scored in the bottom of the 12^th on an RBI single by TJ Giselbach.  Erger then retired pinch hitter Derek Thompson to end the game.

St. Edward's jumped on top in the opener – a scheduled seven-inning contest -- when Blake Alexander scored on Jacob Vazquez's ground out, but the Miners evened it in the third with an unearned run.  Cameron Burk (Nacogdoches, TX/Cushing) reached on an error to start the inning and later scored when Justus Nelson (Plymouth, MN/Robbinsdale Armstrong) reached on an throwing error that allowed him to score from second.

S&T took advantage of another throwing error by the Hilltoppers to take the lead in the fifth.  After Miller was hit by a pitch with two outs and stole second, Alexander threw away a ball hit by Nelson that brought Miller across the plate to give the Miners a 2-1 lead.

But in the sixth, the Hilltoppers loaded the bases with one out against Miner starter Anthony Garza (Belleviille, IL/Belleville East) and then tied it when Vazquez reached on an infield hit.  However, Garza got Zach Schindler to ground into an inning-ending double play to keep the contest even.

In the seventh, the Miners got an opportunity when Burk drew a leadoff walk and was balked to second by reliever Hayden Bach right after he entered the contest, but Bach retired the next three hitters to esacpe the threat.  The Miners also had runners on base in the eighth, ninth and 11^th innings but were unable to score.

Dalton Erger (Imperial, MO/Seckman) entered the game for S&T in the ninth and got out of a two-on, one-out jam with a pair of strikeouts. Two innings later, Erger got out of a jam by cutting down a runner at the plate on a squeeze play and retiring the next hitter to keep the game tied through 11 innings.

The Miners were outhit 10-9 in game one, as Miller, Richter and Reschke all had two hits apiece.  Erger struck out three in four innings of relief to pick up the win.

S&T took advantage of more ragged defense by the Hilltoppers to grab a first inning lead in game two, as after a two-out walk to Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, MO/Lutheran-St. Charles) and a hit by Richter, Reschke's ball hit to third was thrown wild, allowing Swindle to cross the plate.

The Hilltoppers loaded the bases in the bottom of the first after the first two hitters were retired, but Luke Marcheschi (Bloomington, IL/Central Catholic) got Hunter Courson to fly out to squelch that opportunity.  But in the second, St. Edward's tied up the contest on an RBI single by Schindler and took the lead later in the inning when he scored on a fielder's choice.  That was followed by a two-run homer off the bat of Romeo Cortina that gave SEU a 4-1 lead.

S&T came right back as its first three hitters in the third – Nelson, Swindle and Richter – all reached to load the bases without the benefit of a hit and leading to a Hilltopper pitching change.  However, the Miners were unable to capitalize on that chance as a strikeout and a double play ended the inning.  In the fourth, the Hilltoppers busted the game open with a seven-run outburst that included Gable Whitacre's three-run homer.

S&T scored in the fifth on Swindle's RBI double and he would cross the plate later in the inning on an error.

The Miners had just three hits in the nightcap, which came off the bats of Swindle, Richter and Wiegand.

Missouri S&T (2-4) and St. Edward's (10-5) will wrap up their four-game series with a single game Sunday at noon.