St. Louis, Mo. – Savannah Fedorchak (Oakville, Mo./Oakville)'s home run with one out in the top of the ninth lifted the Missouri S&T Lady Miners to a 1-0 win in the opener and a split in its doubleheader at Maryville on Saturday afternoon at Weber Field in St. Louis. The Saints (19-23, 9-13 GLVC) took the nightcap 5-2.

Game 1 – Lady Miners 1, Maryville 0
The opener was a pitcher's duel between Avery English (Carterville, Ill./Carterville) and Sheridan Sprague as they matched zero for zero for the first eight innings. Both sides had their chances leaving six runners on base each. S&T (18-25, 10-12 GLVC) finally broke through in the ninth on Fedorchak's seventh home run of the season. English finished it off in the bottom of the frame getting back-to-back groundouts and a pop out to short to pick up her second career shutout.

The Lady Miners outhit the Saints 8-5 in the contest and were led by Monica Weiss (St. Louis, Mo./Marquette ) and Olivia Young (Milstadt, Ill./Belleville Township) with three hits apiece. Fedorchak and Abby Klein (Kansas City, MO/Staley) had a hit each. English held Maryville to five hits with seven strikeouts against two walks to improve to 9-12.

Game 2 – Maryville 5, Lady Miners 2
S&T struck first in the backend of the doubleheader loading the bases with one out. Fedorchak drove in the first run with a sacrifice fly to left scoring Rachel Aiardo (Naperville, Ill./Naperville North). They still had two on but couldn't add to the lead. The Lady Miners made it 2-0 in the fifth as Aiardo led off the inning with walk, went to second on a sacrifice bunt, moved to third on a passed ball and scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Weiss.

Maryville responded in the home half of the fifth scoring five runs on six hits. Courtney Ferguson broke a 2-2 tie with a single then Nikki Taylor doubled to right center to make it 4-2 and Samantha Hausl followed with a single to left to score Taylor.

S&T saw its first two batters reach in the sixth to bring the tying run to the plate but a groundout and back-to-back fly outs ended the rally. The Lady Miners had one more chance in the seventh but were unable score.

The Lady Miners were held to only four hits in the second game and were led by Weiss, Young, Aiardo and Carley Hamann (Frankfort, Ill./Lincoln Way North). Kati Viets (Sweet Springs, Mo./Sweet Springs) suffered the loss allowing five runs on eight hits with a walk and a strikeout in 4.2 innings pitched.

S&T is back in action on Tuesday, April 18, when it travels to Pittsburg, Kansas to take on the Pittsburg State Gorillas in a non-conference doubleheader beginning at 2 p.m.