ROLLA, Mo. – Propelled by a stunning comeback win in game one, Missouri S&T put together another late offensive surge to complete a sweep of its doubleheader Monday afternoon over William Jewell and take three of the four games in the Great Lakes Valley Conference series at the S&T Ballpark.

The Miners erased an eight-run deficit – the largest one overcome by an S&T team to win a game in 21 seasons – to take a 10-9 walk-off win in game one and completed the sweep with a 10-6 victory in the nightcap to move into sole possession of third place in the GLVC West Division standings.

Trailing 9-7 heading into the bottom of the seventh of the opener and down to the final out with nobody on base, Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, MO/Lutheran-St. Charles) and Justus Nelson (Plymouth, MN/Robbinsdale Armstrong) drew back-to-back walks on four pitches to put the tying runs on base.  Zach Bracken (Berthoud, CO/Berthoud) followed by drilling the first pitch he saw from Garrison Fields into the left field corner to bring home Swindle and pinch-runner Kyle Hix (Harrisonville, MO/Harrisonville) to tie the score.

Bracken ended up at third with a triple, then scored when pinch-hitter Zach Wiegand (Coppell, TX/Parish Episcopal) shot a ball past third baseman Hans Alwin for a game-winning hit to complete the comeback.

The Miners had fallen behind 7-0 before coming to the plate in the first, as the Cardinals got a home run from Drew Standifer on the third pitch of the game to start the early uprising and a two-run single by Garrett McKinzie to conclude it as they sent 12 batters to the plate in the opening inning.

Wiilliam Jewell added a run in the third on Brad Jelinek's RBI single to extend its lead to 8-0 before S&T got on the board in the bottom of the inning on a sacrifice fly by Nelson and a run-scoring single by Bracken.

The Miners chopped into the lead some more in the fourth by sending nine hitters to the plate and scoring four times.  With one out, the Miners rattled off five straight singles – the last by Swindle to drive in two – to force a Cardinal pitching change and got another sacrifice fly from Nelson to cut the lead to 8-6.  The other S&T run scored on a hit by Kaleb Reid (Smithville, MO/Smithville) in the midst of the hit streak.

In the sixth, the Miners drew to within a run when Swindle drew a walk, stole second and later scored on a hit by Bracken.  S&T would load the bases before the inning ended, but Eric Smith got Jewell out of the inning by retiring Eli Miller (Shelbyville, IL/Shelbyville) on a fly ball to left.

The Cardinals picked up what figured to be a big insurance run in the seventh when Tanner Foerschler's ground ball caromed away from Miner third baseman Adam Richter (Breese, IL/Mater Dei), allowing McKinzie to score from second to make it 9-7 before the Miners' comeback heroics in the bottom half of the frame.

The rally from the eight-run deficit was the first by a Miner team since 1996, when S&T trailed by as many as eight in a win at Pittsburg State.

S&T outhit the Cardinals 15-14 in the opener, with Bracken recording four hits and driving in four on a day that would see him bring home seven runs with three more RBI in game two.  Miller had three hits and Reid added two for the Miners, while Dalton Erger (Imperial, MO/Seckman) got the win in relief.

The Cardinals grabbed the early lead in game two with a pair of runs – one of them unearned -- in the first, but S&T got one of the runs back in the bottom half when Reid singled, went to third on a hit by  Richter and scored on a sacrifice fly by Swindle.

S&T starter Dan Borek (Greenville, WI/Hortonville) kept Jewell off the scoreboard over the next five innings until the Miners scored three in the bottom of the sixth to take the lead for good.

The inning started when Swindle reached on an error, then a hit by Nelson was followed by a double off the wall in left off the bat of Bracken to score both runners and put S&T in front.  Bracken scored moments later when Wiegand singled through the left side of the infield.

After Borek pitched out of a two-on, two-out jam in the seventh, the Miners tacked on three more in their half of the inning.  Nelson brought home the first run on a successful squeeze bunt, then back-to-back run-scoring doubles by Bracken and Wiegand extended the Miner lead to 7-2.

S&T then answered two Jewell runs in the eighth with three in the bottom of the inning, with Miller and Nelson driving in runs and the third scoring on a wild pitch.

William Jewell (17-21, 10-10 GLVC) mounted a threat in the ninth, scoring twice and getting two more runners on base before Stuart Martin (Ajax, ON/Ajax) entered the game and struck out Zach Saalfeld to end it and preserve the win for Borek, who scattered eight hits and allowed just one earned run in seven innings of work.

Bracken had two more hits in game two to go along with his three runs batted in, while Wiegand had a pair of RBI with his two hits.  Five different Miners had two hits apiece in a game where each team finished with 14.

The Miners (21-18, 11-9 GLVC) will open a four-game series Saturday against Missouri-St. Louis with a noon doubleheader at the S&T Ballpark.