ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T got a pair of timely hits late in the second game Sunday afternoon to gain a split with Quincy for the second straight day at the S&T Ballpark, as the Miners took a 4-2 win after the Hawks won 11-4 in game one of the Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader.

Tied a two in the bottom of the seventh, Jack DeGarmo (Liberty, MO/Liberty North) delivered a two-out RBI double to score pinch-runner Kyle Hix (Harrisonville, MO/Harrisonville) with the go-ahead run.  An inning later, the Miners got an insurance run as Adam Richter (Breese, IL/Mater Dei) doubled home Eli Miller (Shelbyville, IL/Shelbyville) to give reliever Matt Lamb (Doniphan, NE/Grand Island) a two-run lead to work with in the ninth.

Quincy got the tying runs on base with two outs, but Lamb retired Dominic Miles on a ground ball to short to end the game and pick up his third win of the season in the process.

The Hawks scored in the opening inning – something they did in all four games of the weekend series – on a sacrifice fly by Jake Walters, only to see S&T tie it up an inning later on back-to-back hits by Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, MO/Lutheran-St. Charles) and Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, MO/Lutheran-St. Charles) that preceded an RBI groundout off the bat of Justus Nelson (Plymouth, MN/Robbinsdale Armstrong).

Nelson would give the Miners the lead in the fourth, as S&T took advantage of a Quincy error to score the go-ahead run.  Richter led off the inning with a hit and took second on an errant throw back to the infield, then came around to score when Nelson singled into left center with two outs.

Quincy knotted things up in the sixth when Troy Wehde singled in the tying run with one out, but with two outs, Lamb entered the game with the bases loaded and got T.J. Tamaccio to fly out to end the threat and keep the game tied.

In the Miner seventh, Quincy starter Mark Niebrugge retired the first two hitters before hitting Tim Lira (Granger, IN/Penn) with a pitch.  Hix came in to run for him and stole second before DeGarmo hit a drive off the base of the fence in left to give the Miners the lead again.

An inning later, the Miners scored an unearned run as Miller – attempting to bunt – had his at-bat extended when his bunt attempt was dropped in foul territory.  Miller would get hit by a pitch and would score on Richter's double past the bag at third.

Lamb got the win with 3 1/3 innings of scoreless relief.  Lamb, along with starter Dan Borek (Greenville, WI/Hortonville) and reliever Stuart Martin (Ajax, ON/Ajax), held the Hawks to five hits in the series finale that gave Todd DeGraffenreid his 300^th career win as head coach at S&T.

In game one, the Hawks scored twice in the first on a two-run triple by Wehde and another run in the second on a throwing error to take an early 3-0 lead, but the Miners got back to within a run with single tallies in the third and fourth innings.

S&T got on the scoreboard in the third when Richter's ground ball to short went off the glove of Brynn Martinez, allowing Zach Wiegand (Coppell, TX/Parish Episcopal) to score.  In the fourth, Nelson led off with a bunt single, stole second and came in to score on a hit by Lira to bring the Miners to within a run.

But a baserunning mistake that led to a double play prevented the Miners from getting any more in the frame and the Hawks responded with a four-run fifth.  Quincy would add three more in the sixth and another in the seventh before the Miners score two seventh inning runs on a hit by Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, MO/Lutheran-St. Charles).

Quincy (17-10, 6-2 GLVC) outhit the Miners 12-5 in the opener as starter Luke Marcheschi (Bloomington, IL/Central Catholic) was tagged with the loss.

The Miners, now 12-14 and 3-5 in the GLVC, will step outside of conference play Wednesday as they will host Pittsburg State in a 3 p.m. contest at the S&T Ballpark.