QUINCY, Ill. – Missouri S&T's offense was held in check Sunday afternoon as Quincy took both ends of the Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader from the Miners, rallying for a 3-2 win in game one before winning the nightcap – and series as a result – with a 5-1 victory.

The two setbacks dropped the Miners to 18-21 overall and 8-12 in the GLVC, falling two games in back of William Jewell for fourth place in the GLVC West Division after the Cardinals swept Drury on Sunday.  The top four teams in each division will qualify for the conference tournament and S&T has eight games remaining on its GLVC slate.

The Miners jumped on top in the opening inning of game one as Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, MO/Lutheran-St. Charles) singled with one out and later scored on a hit by Tim Lira (Granger, IN/Penn).  Quincy (26-12, 14-6 GLVC) knotted the contest in the bottom half of the frame with an unearned run off S&T starter Dalton Erger (Imperial, MO/Seckman), as Brynn Martinez reached on an error and scored on J.C. DeMuri's two-out single.

Erger was brilliant for much of the afternoon, retiring 11 of the next 12 hitters he faced following the DeMuri RBi single.  He was given the lead in the fifth when Nathan Volkmann (Liberty, MO/Liberty) led off the inning with a hit and scored on a two-out double to the opposite field by Swindle.

The Hawks threatened in the fifth, but Erger pitched out of a two-on, one-out jam.  However, he wasn't as fortunate an inning later as Michael Nielsen hit a two-run homer to give Quincy the lead for the first time in the game.

S&T got the tying run on base in the seventh as Cameron Burk (Nacogdoches, TX/Cushing) drew a two-out walk and stole second, but Jimmy McDonald retired Swindle on a comebacker to end the game.

Swindle and Lira had two hits apiece for S&T – who outhit Quincy 7-6 -- in game one, while Erger allowed six hits and struck out three in his outing on the mound.

The Hawks scored the initial run in game two when DeMuri drove in Martinez with a sacrifice fly in the third, then added to that lead an inning later on Jake Viaene's solo home run that got caught in the outblowing winds and carried out of the park.

S&T cut the lead in half in the sixth after Nathan Volkmann (Liberty, MO/Liberty) and his brother Jason Volkmann (Liberty, MO/Liberty) both singled to open the inning.  Following a sacrifice bunt by Burk, Swindle drove in N. Volkmann with a ground ball.

However, Quincy regained its two-run lead in the seventh when DeMuri doubled home a run, then scored twice in the eighth.

The Hawks outhit S&T 8-5 in game two, with the Miners getting hits from five different players.  Starting pitcher Matthew Lamb (Doniphan, NE/Grand Island) was tagged with the loss.

Missouri S&T will face GLVC East Division leader Illinois Springfield – currently ranked fifth in NCAA Division II – in a non-conference game on Wednesday at 3 p.m. at the S&T Ballpark.   UIS is 35-4 on the year and owns the longest winning streak in the nation at the NCAA level of 27 games.

Wednesday's game will open the Miners' final scheduled homestand of the season, as S&T hosts Missouri-St. Louis in a four-game series next weekend.