ROLLA, Mo. – While the first half of the day in Sunday's Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader didn't go very well for Missouri S&T's baseball team, the second half of the afternoon went much better as the Miners picked up a critical sweep of the twinbill over William Jewell at the S&T Ballpark.

S&T rallied in the late innings of game one and pulled out a 7-6 win in eight innings, then received a brilliant pitching performance from Dan Borek (Greenville, WI/Hortonville) in the nightcap as his one-hitter allowed the Miners to complete the sweep with a 2-0 victory.

The Miners (14-15, 6-6 GLVC) trailed 5-1 heading into the bottom of the fifth and 6-3 after the Cardinals (16-14, 6-6 GLVC) had batted in the sixth before S&T fought its way back.  In the sixth, the Miners got their first two runners on base as Kaleb Reid (Smithville, MO/Smithville) was hit by a pitch and Jack DeGarmo (Liberty, MO/Liberty North) drew a walk.  Following a sacrifice bunt that moved both runners up, Reid scored on a ground out off the bat of Lucas Swindle (Weldon Spring, MO/Lutheran-St. Charles) before Justus Nelson (Plymouth, MN/Robbinsdale Armstrong) bunted his way on to score DeGarmo and make it 6-5.

Luke Marcheschi (Bloomington, IL/Central Catholic) – who entered the contest in relief in the third inning – retired the Cardinals in order in the seventh to keep the margin at one.  Matt Gruse (Neenah, WI/Neenah) opened the seventh with a hit over the shoulder of Jewell reliever Reed Pegram, then following a sacrifice bunt by Tim Lira (Granger, IN/Penn), came in to score on a double by Conner Forsythe (Farmington, MO/Farmington) to tie the score.

S&T couldn't bring home Forsythe to win in the seventh, but was able to get the job done in the eighth.

The Miners loaded the bases without getting a ball out of the infield, as Zach Wiegand (Coppell, TX/Parish Episcopal) drew a leadoff walk, followed by a bunt single by Swindle and an error on a bunt by Nelson.  With one out, Gruse slashed a single past first baseman Christian Chalabi to plate Wiegand with the winning run.

Gruse had four hits and drove in two runs as the Miners outhit the Cardinals 13-12 in the opener.  Marcheschi picked up the win with his 5 2/3 innings of relief work and had six strikeouts along the way.

The second game saw the Miners take the lead in the first without the benefit of a hit, as Swindle and Nelson drew walks to start the contest.  Later in the inning, Nelson would score on a wild pitch.

Borek took care of matters from there, as he shut down a Cardinal lineup that had racked up 39 hits in the first three games of the series.  The senior righthander carried a no-hitter into the fifth before it was broken up on Trent Bollman's leadoff single, but he retired the final hitters after that hit to even his record at 4-4 on the year.

He struck out four in his 93-pitch outing and faced just three batters over the minimum in the process.

S&T got its other run in the fifth, as Nelson reached on a single and subsequent throwing error and later scored on a hit by Gruse, who reached base in each of his last seven plate appearances on the day.  The hit in that inning from Nelson and Gruse were among the three by the Miners in the second game, with the other coming from Tim Lira (Granger, IN/Penn).

Missouri S&T will face 11^th-ranked Central Missouri in a single game Tuesday at the S&T Ballpark, with the first pitch slated for 2 p.m.