Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Missouri S&T used solid starting pitching and a big sixth inning in game two to earn its first sweep of a Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader Saturday afternoon, downing Rockhurst by scores of 4-2 and 6-1.

Trent Green (Perryville, MO/Perryville) carried a shutout into the ninth inning of the game one victory, while Anthony Garza (Belleviille, IL/Belleville East) allowed just six hits in a complete game effort in the nightcap to complete the sweep.

The Miners got the lead for Green in the opener with a two-out uprising that led to two runs.  Matt Knickerbocker (Bayfield, CO/Bayfield) was hit by a pitch after the first two hitters in the inning were retired, then Eli Miller (Shelbyville, IL/Shelbyville) shot a ball into the gap to bring him home with the first run.

A throwing error on the relay allowed Miller to take third and he scored moments later on a hit by Kaleb Reid (Smithville, MO/Smithville).

S&T used the long ball to score its final two runs, as Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, MO/Lutheran-St. Charles) hit a home run over the fence in center to lead off the sixth and Zach Bracken (Berthoud, CO/Berthoud) hit his first homer as a Miner with two outs in the ninth as he rifled a Michael Lydon-Lorson pitch well over the fence in left.  It marked the Miners' first game this season with multiple home runs.

In the meantime, Green used his defense to keep the Hawks over the first eight innings, as the Miners turned three double plays behind him – all coming after a leadoff hitter had reached base.

Rockhurst got two runs in the ninth and had the tying runs on base, but Matt Lamb (Doniphan, NE/Grand Island) – who took over on the mound after the first two Hawks reached – got the final two outs on a comebacker to the mound and a strikeout of David Stober to end the game.

Swindle had two of the Miners' six hits in game one, as the Hawks outhit S&T 10-6.

Rockhurst took the initial lead in game two in the third on a bases loaded single by Seth Soto that plated Michael Ruffalo, but Garza got his pitching counterpart, Henry Weiler, to hit into an inning-ending double play to escape any further damage.

After missing a chance to tie the game in the fourth following Adam Richter (Breese, IL/Mater Dei)'s leadoff double, the Miners put together another two-out rally in the fifth to tie it up, as Knickerbocker got the second of his three hits in the game and scored when Miller followed with a triple to the fence in left center.

Miller's triple was the 13^th of his career at S&T, tying the school record held by Clint Moss.

In the sixth, Richter was hit by a pitch to start the inning, before back-to-back hits by Swindle and Bracken loaded the bases.   With one out, Nathan Volkmann (Liberty, MO/Liberty) hit a ball past a diving Ruffalo to put the Miners in front, then Jack DeGarmo (Liberty, MO/Liberty North) plugged the gap in left center to bring home two more runs and bring about a pitching change for the Hawks.

Knickerbocker greeted reliever Grant Otte with a hit back up the middle to score pinch-runner Kyle Hix (Harrisonville, MO/Harrisonville) and DeGarmo to give Garza and the Miners a 6-1 lead.

Garza retired the Hawks in order in the sixth, then gave up a one-out hit in the seventh that got erased on a double play – the fifth by the S&T defense on the day – when Swindle caught Dylan Brauner's foul ball in the corner and threw out Nick Pascuzzi as he tried to take second.

S&T outhit Rockhurst 11-6 in game two as Swindle had two more hits to go along with Knickerbocker's three.

The Miners (14-14, 5-5 GLVC) and Hawks (16-15, 4-6 GLVC) will play another twinbill Sunday starting at noon.