ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Missouri S&T allowed a pair of three-run leads escape its grasp in game one of Saturday's Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader at Maryville, as the Saints took a 6-5 walkoff win in that contest and completed the sweep by winning 7-1 in the nightcap.

As a result of the sweep, the Miners will enter the GLVC Tournament as the third seed out of the GLVC West and will face the second seed from the GLVC East, either Bellarmine or Illinois Springfield, in an opening round contest in the conference tournament Thursday in Ozark, Mo.  The game time will be announced at a later time.

The Miners broke on top in the opening inning of game one when Eli Miller (Shelbyville, IL/Shelbyville) hit Alec Harris' second pitch of the contest for a home run.  S&T got another homer in the second, this off the bat of Matt Knickerbocker (Bayfield, CO/Bayfield), to extend the lead and added another run in the third when Zach Wiegand (Coppell, TX/Parish Episcopal) scored on a groundout off the bat of Kaleb Reid (Smithville, MO/Smithville) for its first three-run lead of the day.

Maryville scored twice in the third off S&T starter Dan Borek (Greenville, WI/Hortonville) to get back to within one, but S&T got those runs right back in the fourth on a pinch-hit, two-run single by Adam Richter (Breese, IL/Mater Dei) that plated Justus Nelson (Plymouth, MN/Robbinsdale Armstrong) and Zach Bracken (Berthoud, CO/Berthoud).

However, the Saints knotted up the score in the fifth with three runs, the first coming home on an RBI triple by Zach Ruckman and the tying run on a two-out single off the bat of Dalton Schumer.

Two innings later, Schumer won it for the Saints when he looped a hit into right center with two to score Cody Klotz with the game-winning run.

The Saints outhit S&T 9-6 in game one, with reliever Dalton Erger (Imperial, MO/Seckman) being tagged with the loss.

The second contest was a tight game between the teams until the Saints tallied four runs in the sixth to break a tie.

Maryviile loaded the bases in the first against Matt Lamb (Doniphan, NE/Grand Island) in game two, but got only one run on a Schumer sacrifice fly.

S&T – who faced five Saint hurlers in the game – got its first hit of the outing in the fourth and loaded the bases with one out, but like Maryville in the first, got just one run out of the threat when Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, MO/Lutheran-St. Charles) crossed the plate as Knickerbocker hit into a fielder's choice.

The Miners escaped another bases loaded jam in the fourth when Blaine Dunbar (West Plains, MO/West Plains), who entered the game in relief during the inning, got Daniel Covert to fly out to halt that chance.   But in the sixth, Covert returned to the plate with the sacks full and slammed a full count pitch into the corner in left to clear the bases and give Maryville a 4-1 advantage.

Covert's double was followed by a walk and an RBi single by Schumer to complete the four-run sixth for the Saints.  Covert would add a two-run homer in the eighth as he drove in five runs in the nightcap.

Maryville outhit the Miners 9-3 in game two, with the S&T hits coming off the bats of Richter, Swindle and Nelson.  Dunbar took the loss on the mound for S&T.