WESTFIELD, Ind. – Missouri S&T's baseball team picked up a second win in its first Great Lakes Valley Conference series of the season Saturday afternoon, knocking off Indianapolis 3-2 before the Greyhounds took a 7-4 decision in the nightcap at Grand Park.

The Miners took the lead in the second inning of game one, which began when Garrett Weiner (Alton, IL/Marquette) was hit by a pitch.  After stealing second, Weiner moved on to third on Doug Wood's (Liberty, MO/Liberty North) ground ball and scored on a ground out by Andrew Branson (St. James, MO/St. James).  S&T added another run in the frame as Brady Voss (Lake St. Louis, MO/Liberty) and Brady Wildschuetz (Foristell, MO/Francis Howell) had back-to-back doubles.

UIndy tied the game in the second off Miner starter Rian Markes (Columbia, MO/Father Tolton), but the Miners got the lead back in the third when the Greyhounds committed an error on a potential inning-ending double play ball, allowing Keegan Baxmeyer (Waterloo, IL/Freeburg) to come around to score.

Things were quiet through the middle innings – Markes retired UIndy in order in the fifth and sixth after allowing a leadoff single in the fourth and allowed a one-out walk in the seventh that was erased by a caught stealing – but in the eighth, the Greyhounds threatened against the Miner bullpen.

UIndy got its first two runners on in the eighth, but a fielder's choice and a pickoff at second of Alex Vela by David Kephart (Overland Park, KS/Blue Valley Northwest) helped get the Miners out of the inning.  Elijah Gross (Lee's Summit, MO/Lee's Summit West) entered the contest and after allowing a hit to Hunter Waning that loaded the bases with two outs, retired Issac Bair on a fly ball to center to keep the Miners in front.

Gross then proceeded to strike out the side in order in the ninth to preserve the win for Markes, who allowed just four hits and fanned seven in his seven innings of work.   The Miners were outhit 7-3 in the opener.

In the nightcap, the Miners again struck first, as Michael Ward (Hazelwood, MO/Hazelwood West) drew a walk with one out and Wood was hit by a pitch.  With two out, Weiner tripled to the opposite field to score both runners, then scored himself on an infield hit by Tate Morrell (Lloydminster, AB/).

However, the Greyhounds grabbed the lead in the contest in the third with a four-out uprising, getting consecutive run-scoring hits off the bats of Waning, Bair and Denton Shepler off S&T starter Nate Wodka (Allen, TX/Allen).  

S&T threatened in the fifth as Weiner doubled with two outs and reached third on a passed ball, but Morrell lined out to center to end the inning.  The Greyhounds then took the lead in the sixth on a two-run single by Brandon DeWitt and tacked on another tally in the eighth as DeWitt beat the throw to first on a potential double play ball to allow Vela to score.

The Miners got two runners on base in the eighth but couldn't get one across the plate, then got a run in the ninth on an RBI single by Morrell and had the tying runs on base with two outs, but Greyhound reliever Chaney Morgan got Wildschuetz to ground out the end the game.

Morrell had three hits to lead the Miners as each team had 11 hits in the second game.  Drew Saunders (St. Louis, MO/Ladue Horton Watkins), one of three pitchers used by S&T in the nightcap, was charged with the loss.  Wodka struck out five in his five innings on the hill.

The Miners and Greyhounds will wrap up their weekend series with a single game on Sunday afternoon.