QUINCY, Ill. – After grabbing the lead for the first time this weekend, Missouri S&T's baseball team was unable to hold onto that advantage as Quincy rallied for a 5-4 win Sunday afternoon and a sweep of the Great Lakes Valley Conference series.

The Miners had leads of 2-0 and 3-1 in the contest, but the sixth-ranked Hawks tied the game in the fourth and took the lead for good on Cody Birdsong's two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth to drop S&T to 19-12 overall and 12-8 in the GLVC.

S&T, who scored just two runs in Saturday's doubleheader, got two runs in the board in the opening inning that began with a one-out single by Will Hayes (Terre Haute, IN/South Vigo) and a four-pitch walk to Matt Gruse (Neenah, WI/Neenah).  After the runners moved ahead on Tim Lira's (Granger, IN/Penn) fly ball, Matt Knickerbocker (Bayfield, CO/Bayfield) singled to score both runners and give the Miners the early lead.

Quincy answered back with a run in the bottom of the first, but the Miners regained their two-run lead when Doug Wood (Liberty, MO/Liberty North) drew a walk with the bases loaded to force home Gruse.

In the fourth, the Hawks (24-7, 16-4 GLVC) tied the score on back-to-back RBI singles – both coming with two outs – off the bats of Nolan Snyder and J. Eads, then took the lead in the sixth when Birdsong hit his second homer of the series as he took Blaine Dunbar's (West Plains, MO/West Plains) 2-1 pitch over the wall in left center.

The Miners got back to within a run in the eighth when Drew Aldana (El Paso, TX/JM Hanks) reached on an error that allowed Wood to score, but couldn't capitalize on that opportunity and then went down in order against Karl Hirsch in the ninth.

Quincy outhit the Miners 10-9 on the afternoon; Lisa and Aldana had two hits apiece.  Dunbar took the loss in relief for S&T.

Missouri S&T will open a week-long homestand Tuesday when it hosts Drury at the S&T Ballpark.  First pitch for the single game will take place at 2 p.m.