QUINCY, Ill. – Hitting the road for the final in 2022, the Missouri S&T baseball team took the field at QU Stadium Friday afternoon for the first of four games this weekend in Great Lakes Valley Conference action against Quincy. The Miners (19-23, 7-14) scored the first run of the day but were unable to keep up with the Hawks (28-19, 13-8) at the plate, falling in the opener by a final score of 11-1 in seven innings.
It was a brisk pace from the first pitch of the game, as the first two batters of the game both reached for the Miners before
Doug Wood (Liberty, MO/Liberty North) got S&T on the board with an RBI single through the right side of the infield on the fifth pitch of the afternoon to plate
Dakota Sill (Lansing, KS/Lansing) to take the early 1-0 lead.
Quincy answered back with a solo home run in to lead off the home first before scoring four runs in the second and taking advantage of a pair of errors by the Miners to go ahead 5-1.
The two sides traded zeros in the third and fourth innings before QU turned a two-out walk into a run in the sixth to extend their lead to 6-1. Quincy then went on to score five more times in the sixth to extend their lead to 10 before retiring S&T in the seventh to end the opener in a run-rule by a score of 11-1.
Wood finished the day 1-2 with a walk while Sill and
Braden Mahurin (Dixon, MO/Dixon) each went 1-3.
Elijah Gross (Lee's Summit, MO/Lee's Summit West) (2-3) took the loss in the game in his third start of the season and tied a season-high five innings of work in the game. He allowed six runs, four earned, on six hits while striking out five.
Dylan Dunbar (West Plains, MO/West Plains) worked 2/3 of an inning of relief and struck out one as the final of four pitchers used by S&T in the opener.
The series will continue with a pair of seven-inning contests Saturday, with first pitch in game one set for 12 P.M. at QU Stadium.
